The Carnic Alps, spanning the boundary between Italy and Austria, represent a portion of the South Alpine litho-tectonic domain and, as such, are parts of the Alpine orogenic belt. Still, the Variscan depositional and deformation history is preserved. Moreover, the stratigraphic succession consists mostly of non-metamorphic and very fossiliferous rocks of Middle Ordovician to upper Carboniferous, that might allow to reconstruct the depositional environments, to date and correlate the successions in the different parts of the basin, and to infer their evolution through time and the controls on such evolution. Consequently, the Carnic Alps represent a key area to infer the evolution of the Alpine area during the lower Paleozoic.
Pondrelli M., S.L. (2023). The Pragian to Frasnian basin evolution in the Carnic Alps (Austria-Italy). Udine : Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale Udine.
The Pragian to Frasnian basin evolution in the Carnic Alps (Austria-Italy)
Corradini C.Membro del Collaboration Group
;Perri M. C.Membro del Collaboration Group
;Spalletta C.Membro del Collaboration Group
2023
Abstract
The Carnic Alps, spanning the boundary between Italy and Austria, represent a portion of the South Alpine litho-tectonic domain and, as such, are parts of the Alpine orogenic belt. Still, the Variscan depositional and deformation history is preserved. Moreover, the stratigraphic succession consists mostly of non-metamorphic and very fossiliferous rocks of Middle Ordovician to upper Carboniferous, that might allow to reconstruct the depositional environments, to date and correlate the successions in the different parts of the basin, and to infer their evolution through time and the controls on such evolution. Consequently, the Carnic Alps represent a key area to infer the evolution of the Alpine area during the lower Paleozoic.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
