REGIONALNE UWARUNKOWANIA ROZWOJU I INWERSJI BASENU LUBELSKIEGO W DEWONIE I KARBONIE

Abstract

REGIONAL CONTROLS ON THE LUBLIN BASIN DEVELOPMENT AND INVERSION IN THE DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS

Abstract. New geological and geophysical data on the Devonian-Carboniferous Lublin Basin allow reinterpretation of its regional structural framework. They also provide a basis for the reconstruction of the basin development and inversion against broader tectonic context of the Variscan foreland in the Western and Central Europe. Beginning from the Middle Devonian, and particularly since the mid-Frasnian, the Lublin Basin development had been controlled by a system of longitudinal dislocations striking approximately NW-SE. The most important was the Nowe Miasto-Radom Fault Zone corresponding to the SW basin boundary with the Łysogóry-Radom Block. It was controlled by the local segment of the major crustal discontinuity - the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone (TTZ). In the Lublin Basin the extensional regime prevailed until the early Namurian. It was closely related to the evolution of the East European Platform, in particular to the development of the Pripyat-Dniepr-Donets rift system. After Namurian A the basin subsidence was probably controlled by strike-slip movements along the TTZ, whereas stages of its evolution were synchronous with a development of remaining part of the Polish Variscan foreland. By the end Westphalian the Lublin Basin underwent structural inversion in the thrust-fault stress regime. Axis of compression underwent clockwise rotation from the initial NNE-SSW towards the final ENE-WSW causing sinistral transpression along longitudinal faults.