Les cordilleres dans les mers cretacees et paleogenes des Carpathes du nord

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The flysch deposits of the northern Carpathian Alps (southern Poland) contain abundant exotic blocks and pebbles whose dimensions exclude the possibility of their being transported over a long distance. This suggests the presence of cordilleras from which the material was detached. The localization of these features can be shown approximately as a function of the stratigraphic and geographic distribution of the exotic material. The cordilleras have crystalline basements overlain by Paleozoic and Jurassic sedimentary rocks; while in the submerged troughs between the cordilleras, flysch or pelagic formations were accumulated in the Cretaceous and lower Tertiary. Adjoining the cordilleras, in certain periods, littoral sediments were deposited. The erosion of the cordilleras progressed gradually, wearing away the sedimentary cover and exposing the basement complex. The distribution of the exotic material in the stratigraphic series indicates that the cordilleras were mobile, alternately emerging and submerging. This is particularly distinct in the external klippen of the Inwald zone, suggesting that one of the Carpathian cordilleras was better preserved.

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