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Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-551-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-551-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
Research article
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24 May 2023
Research article |  | 24 May 2023

Kinematics and time-resolved evolution of the main thrust-sense shear zone in the Eo-Alpine orogenic wedge (the Vinschgau Shear Zone, eastern Alps)

Chiara Montemagni, Stefano Zanchetta, Martina Rocca, Igor M. Villa, Corrado Morelli, Volkmar Mair, and Andrea Zanchi

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The Vinschgau Shear Zone (VSZ) is one of the largest and most significant shear zones developed within the Late Cretaceous thrust stack in the Austroalpine domain of the eastern Alps. 40Ar / 39Ar geochronology constrains the activity of the VSZ between 97 and 80 Ma. The decreasing vorticity towards the core of the shear zone, coupled with the younging of mylonites, points to a shear thinning behavior. The deepest units of the Eo-Alpine orogenic wedge were exhumed along the VSZ.
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