Alpine overdeepenings and paleo-ice flow changes: an integrated geophysical-sedimentological case study from Tyrol (Austria) |
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Authors: | Jürgen M Reitner Wilfried Gruber Alexander Römer Rainer Morawetz |
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Institution: | 1. Geologische Bundesanstalt, Neulinggasse 38, 1030, Vienna, Austria 2. HOT Engineering, Parkstra?e 8, 8700, Leoben, Austria 3. Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H, Roseggerstra?e 17, 8700, Leoben, Austria
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Abstract: | We present a study of the inneralpine basin of Hopfgarten focused on the analysis of basin fill in order to reveal its formation
in relation to paleo-ice flow and tectonics. The study is based on geological mapping as well as seismic (reflection and refraction)
and geoelectrical surveys. The oldest sequence in the basin, identified by seismic stratigraphy at 400 m below surface, consists
of coarse grained sediments of supposedly Oligocene to Miocene age, which subsided along faults linked to the Inn fault. Three
superimposed sequences, each displaying baselaps in contact with a subglacially formed unconformity and sigmoid foresets,
show pleniglacial conditions followed by a glaciolacustrine environment. The uppermost of these three sequences lies on top
of last glacial maximum till (LGM; Würmian Pleniglacial; MIS 2) and represents Termination I. The middle sequence is classified
as Termination II following the Rissian Pleniglacial (MIS 6). The oldest glacial sequence cannot be constrained chronostratigraphically
but might correlate with Termination V following the major glaciation of MIS 12. Limited glacial erosion during the LGM occurred
only during the ice build-up phase. Further overdeepening was impeded due to topographic barrier and mutual blockades of glaciers
within this highly dissected landscape. The occurrence and relative timing of the impediment was controlled by the onset of
transfluences and thus by the altitude of coles. The higher amount of overdeepening during older glacial periods is explained
by longer phases of free ice advance in the ice build up phase due to higher transfluences routes at that time. Thus, the
preservation of older Pleistocene sequences within the basin may be the result of the lowering of watersheds from one glaciation
to the next. Our model of an inverse relationship between glacial shaping of the surface and the subsurface may apply to similar
Alpine landscapes as well. |
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