Zur Frage der Vergenzen in den Katalonischen Küstenketten

The problem of simultaneously created but antagonistically verging structures is treated. Starting-point are the Catalan Coast Ranges (Ne-Spain), especially their southern part which comprises the Maestrazgo an the Lower Aragon Ranges. That region is bounded, which, what concerns the tertiary tectonics, acted as a unit. In the so bounded area the inland verging structures are attributed to gravity tectonics. The reasons are:

1. the perpendicular to the tectonical direction convex arcform of the axis, parallel to the lines of force of a pressing unit.
2. the transition against the verging structure from strongest pressure to strain across a region of normal layering.
3. the stratigraphical sequence: it exists an alternation of competent (lime-, sand-stones) and incompetent (sands, clays, marls) sediments.

What we have in the Maestrazgo is not a single gliding unit, but an in itself glided mass. Everywhere where the competent layers lie upon incompetent strata happened a horizontal equalization of the concerned forces (Faziestektonik, selektive Tektonik). And this alernation is the very typical of the stratigraphy in the Maestrazgo. In some final remarks the position of the Catalan Coast Ranges in the Mediterranean Orogeny is discussed.