Structural characteristics of epicentral areas in Central Europe:: study case Cheb Basin (Czech Republic)

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Bankwitz, P [1 ]
Schneider, G [1 ]
Kämpf, H [1 ]
Bankwitz, E [1 ]
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[1] Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
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10.1016/S0264-3707(02)00051-0
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P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
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The earthquake distribution pattern of Central Europe differs systematically from the neighbouring areas of NW and southern Europe regarding the fault plane kinematics. Within a belt between the French Massif Central and the northern part of the Bohemian Massif (1000 kin) sinistral faulting along N-S zones dominates on the contrary to the Alps and their foreland with common bookshelf shears. One of the prominent N-S structures is the Regensburg-Leipzig-Rostock Zone (A) with several epicentral areas, where the main seismic center occurs in the northern Cheb Basin (NW Bohemia). The study demonstrates new structural results for the swarm-quake region in NW-Bohcmia, especially for the Novy Kostel area in the Cheb Basin. There the N-S-trending newly found Pocatky-Plesna zone (PPZ) is identical with the main earthquake line. The PPZ is connected with a mofette line between Hartusov and Bublak with evidence for CO2 degassing from the subcrustal mantle. The morphologically more prominent Marianske Lazne fault (MLF) intersects the PPZ obliquely under an acuate angle. In the past the MLF was supposed to be the tectonic structure connected with the epicentral area of Novy Kostel. But evidence from the relocated hypocentres along the PPZ (at 7-12 kms depth) indicate that the MLF is seismically non-active. Asymmetric drainage patterns of the Cheb Basin are caused by fault related movement along Palaeozoic basement faults which initiate a deformation of the cover (Upper Pliocene to Holocene basin filling). The PPZ forms an escarpment in Pliocene and Pleistocene soft rock and is supposingly acting as an earthquake zone since late Pleistocene time. The uppermost Pleistocene of 0.12-0.01 Ma deposited only in front of the fault scarp dates the fault activity. The crossing faults envelope crustal wedges under different local stress conditions. Their intersection line forms a zone beginning at the surface near Novy Kostel, dipping south with increasing depth,, probably down to about 12 km. The intersection zone represents a crustal anomaly. There fault movements can be blocked up and peculiar stress condition influence the behaviour of the adjacent crust.,An ENE-WNW striking dextral wrench fault was detected which is to expect as kinematic counterpart to the ca. N-S striking sinistral shear zones. Nearly E-W striking fracture segments were formerly only known as remote sensing lineaments or as joint density zones. The ENE shear zone is characterized by a set-of compressional m-scale folds and dm-scale faults scattered within a 20 m wide wrench zone. It is built up of different sets of cleavage-like clay plate pattern of microscopical scale. The associated shear planes fit into a Riedel shear system. One characteristic feature are tiny channels of micrometer scale. They have originated after shear plane bending and are the sites of CO2 mantle degassing. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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