TECTONO-METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE VEPOR UNIT IN THE WEST CARPATHIANS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OROGEN-PARALLEL EVENT

Abstract

Study of tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Vepor Unit in the West Carpathians concentrated on the Upper Cretaceous proces of crustal burial and exhumation in the regime of orogen-parallel ductile flow

Keywords

• Argon diffusion modelling
• burial metamorphism
• heterogeneous exhumation
• Perple_X
• polymetamorphism
• quartz deformation microstructure
• rheology of quartzo-feldspathic rocks
• West Carpathians