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Late to post-Variscan basement segmentation and differential exhumation along the SW Bohemian Massif, central Europe
GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Hamed Fazlikhani
GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Wolfgang Bauer
GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Harald Stollhofen
GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Helga de Wall
GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU)
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Gerald Gabriel
Leibniz-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik, Stilleweg 2, 30655
Hanover, Germany
Institut für Geologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Callinstraße 30, 30167 Hanover, Germany
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Short summary
We combine gravity anomaly and topographic data with observations from thermochronology, metamorphic grades, and the granite inventory to detect patterns of basement block segmentation and differential exhumation along the southwestern Bohemian Massif. Based on our analyses, we introduce a previously unknown tectonic structure termed Cham Fault, which, together with the Pfahl and Danube shear zones, is responsible for the exposure of different crustal levels during late to post-Variscan times.
We combine gravity anomaly and topographic data with observations from thermochronology,...
