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Dawn and dusk of Late Cretaceous basin inversion in central Europe
Thomas Voigt
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Institut für Geowissenschaften,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Germany
Jonas Kley
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Geowissenschaftliches
Zentrum, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen
Silke Voigt
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Geowissenschaften,
Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt
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Short summary
Basin inversion in central Europe is believed to have started during Late Cretaceous (middle Turonian) and probably proceeded until the Paleogene. Data from different marginal troughs in central Europe point to an earlier start of basin inversion (in the Cenomanian). The end of inversion is overprinted by general uplift but had probably already occurred in the late Campanian to Maastrichtian. Both the start and end of inversion occurred with low rates of uplift and subsidence.
Basin inversion in central Europe is believed to have started during Late Cretaceous (middle...
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