The tectonic subdivision of the Carpatho–Pannonian region. The yellow area of the Outer Carpathians characterized by Tertiary nappe transport and the arrows refer to the rotation of the microplates (after Márton et al. 2009). The study area is indicated with a rectangle (for more precise location see Figs. 2 and 3).  

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... Carpathians belong to the European Alpine system, which was formed during the convergence and collision of the Euro- pean and African plates. They have an arcuate shape that extends over 1300 km from the Danube valley in Eastern Austria to the Danube valley on the border between Romania and Serbia ( Fig. 1). Diachronous collision of the two plates started in the Late Jurassic and has continued to the Present. Fragments of continental blocks between the two plates were displaced and rotated in the process of collision and initiated folding/trusting and nappe transport in the present Outer Carpathians during the Tertiary (Oszczypko 2006 ...

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... studied localities typically exhibit AMS lineations, which systematically depart in the CCW sense from the respective local strikes (Fig. 10). This phenomenon suggests that the ductile deformation resulting in the AMS lineations commenced before the folds were formed, with the former coming into being while the sediments were soft, probably still in the late Oligocene, the latter somewhat later, during the rotation process. 6. IRM acquisition, normalized three-component IRM ...