International Geological Journal - Official Journal of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association

MAIN FEATURES OF THE PRE-GOSAU PALEOKARST IN THE BREZOVSKE KARPATY MTS. (WESTERN CARPATHIANS MTS., SLOVAKIA)

Published: Aug 1998

Pages: 297 - 300

Authors: JURAJ CINCURA

Abstract: The considerable areal extent and a great thickness of Middle/Upper Triassic carbonate sequences favourably influenced the development of paleokarst during the Paleoalpine karst period in the Brezovske Karpaty Mts. Carbonate formations provide data concerning the first-pre-Gosau-phase of the Paleoalpine karst period. Freshwater limestones, bauxites, reddish ferrugineous silty clays, Valchov Conglomerates, shallow doline-like depressions and deeper canyon-like forms represent the most important pre-Gosau karst sediments and forms.

Keywords: Cretaceous, pre-Gosau paleokarst, doline- and canyon-like depressions, red clays, bauxites

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