Three large prehistoric earthquakes in the Eastern Alps evidenced by cave rupture and speleothem damage

I Baroň, L Plan, B Grasemann, R Melichar… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Spectacular geomorphic evidence of recent tectonic activity and three potentially strong
prehistoric earthquakes were discovered in Obir Caves in the Karawanken Mountains. This …

3D active fault kinematic behaviour reveals rapidly alternating near-surface stress states in the Eastern Alps

I Baroň, R Melichar, L Sokol, M Rowberry… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
Stress variations in the Earth's crust need to be understood in both the spatial and temporal
domains to address a number of pressing societal issues. In this paper, precise three …

Post-Miocene tectonics of the Northern Calcareous Alps

J Szczygieł, I Baroň, R Melichar, L Plan… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Late Cretaceous orogeny followed by the Eocene collision of the Adriatic with
the European plate dissected the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) by a number of well …

[HTML][HTML] The Obir caves adjacent to the Periadriatic Fault in southern Austria: Uplifted hypogene caves formed by carbonic acid speleogenesis

C Spötl, Y Dublyansky, G Koltai, T Racine, L Plan - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypogene karst caves, formed independently of surface processes, have garnered
increasing attention in recent decades, revealing a wider distribution than previously …

Post-LGM faulting in Central Europe: LiDAR detection of the> 50 km-long Sub-Tatra fault, Western Carpathians

T Pánek, J Minár, L Vitovič, M Břežný - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing availability of high-resolution LiDAR data reveals surprisingly strong
topographic evidence of late Quaternary faulting in some intraplate regions characterized by …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation of columnar calcite within flowstone speleothem

I Mitrović-Woodell, T Tesei, L Plan, G Habler… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Damaged and faulted speleothems have proven valuable for neotectonic investigations and
dating. Flowstone (or “bacon”) speleothems often consist of coarse (cm-scale) columnar …

Unravelling the shape and stratigraphy of a glacially-overdeepened valley with reflection seismic: the Lienz Basin (Austria)

T Burschil, DC Tanner, JM Reitner, H Buness… - Swiss Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
We reveal the subsurface bedrock topography and sedimentary succession of one of the
deepest glacially-formed basins in the Eastern Alps: the Lienz Basin in the Upper Drau …

[HTML][HTML] The transition zone between the Eastern Alps and the Pannonian basin imaged by ambient noise tomography

G Szanyi, Z Gráczer, B Balázs, IJ Kovács… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to establish a 3D shear-wave velocity model of the transition zone
between the Eastern Alps and the Pannonian basin by means of ambient noise tomography …

Quaternary faulting in the Western Carpathians: Insights into paleoseismology from cave deformations and damaged speleothems (Demänová Cave System, Low …

J Szczygieł, M Gradziński, P Bella, H Hercman, J Littva… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Multiphase cave conduit offset and related speleothem damage in the Demänová Cave
System (DCS; the Low Tatra Mts, Central Western Carpathians) were dated with U-series …

[HTML][HTML] Gravitational and tectonic stress states within a deep-seated gravitational slope deformation near the seismogenic Periadriatic Line fault

I Baroň, L Sokol, R Melichar, L Plan - Engineering Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
The role of tectonic horizontal stresses in activating deep-seated gravitational slope
deformations (DSGSD) has rarely been studied. We applied a new numerical technique for …