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Die muttekopfgosau (Lechtaler Alpen, Tirol/Österreich): Sedimentologie und Beckenentwicklung

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In the Eastern Alps compression during orogeny in the Upper Cretaceous caused crustal thickening, isostatic uplift and gravitational adjustment of the unstable orogenic wedge. This process triggered extensional basin formation on the back of the orogen (Gosau Basins). The basin fill of the Muttekopf Gosau Basin is arranged in megacycles, the first one comprising alluvial fan sediments and “Inoceramus marls” of the Lower Gosau Complex (Faupl et al. 1987) of Santonian age. Three other cycles follow (Upper Gosau Complex, Campanian to Maastrichtian), consisting of turbiditic fining upward sequences, that are indicative for extensional tectonics during basin formation, as subsidence events prevent formation of autocyclic coarsening upward sequences and therefore prograding of the turbidite system. Deposition of the 1st and 2nd Megacycle occured below the CCD (Carbonate Compensation Depth). The carbonate rich 3rd Megacycle was deposited probably below the CCD after a period of palaeogeographic reorganisation (uplift?) in the source area.

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Ortner, H. Die muttekopfgosau (Lechtaler Alpen, Tirol/Österreich): Sedimentologie und Beckenentwicklung. Geol Rundsch 83, 197–211 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00211903

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