Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-91-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-91-2024
Research article
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02 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 02 Feb 2024

Fold localization at pre-existing normal faults: field observations and analogue modelling of the Achental structure, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria

Willemijn Sarah Maria Theresia van Kooten, Hugo Ortner, Ernst Willingshofer, Dimitrios Sokoutis, Alfred Gruber, and Thomas Sausgruber

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-1529', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Mar 2023
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Willemijn van Kooten, 01 May 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-1529', Klaus Pelz, 04 Apr 2023
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Willemijn van Kooten, 01 May 2023

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Willemijn van Kooten on behalf of the Authors (31 Jul 2023)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (11 Sep 2023) by Guido Schreurs
AR by Willemijn van Kooten on behalf of the Authors (15 Sep 2023)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Sep 2023) by Guido Schreurs
AR by Willemijn van Kooten on behalf of the Authors (18 Oct 2023)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (20 Oct 2023) by Guido Schreurs
ED: Publish as is (21 Oct 2023) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)
AR by Willemijn van Kooten on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2023)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Extensional deformation creates structures that may be reactivated during subsequent shortening. The Achental structure within the Northern Calcareous Alps fold-and-thrust belt is a natural example of a basin margin that was inverted during Alpine orogeny. We have studied the influence of such inherited inhomogeneities in the field and as an analogue model. We find that oblique shortening can create structures outlining pre-existing faults within a single deformation event.