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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1005-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1005-2021
Research article
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30 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 30 Apr 2021

Emplacement of “exotic” Zechstein slivers along the inverted Sontra Graben (northern Hessen, Germany): clues from balanced cross sections and geometrical forward modeling

Jakob Bolz and Jonas Kley

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To assess the role smaller graben structures near the southern edge of the Central European Basin System play in the basin’s overall deformational history, we take advantage of a feature found on some of these structures, where slivers from older rock units appear along the graben's main fault, surrounded on both sides by younger strata. The implications for the geometry of the fault provide a substantially improved estimate for the magnitude of normal and thrust motion along the fault system.
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