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Przegl¹d Geologiczny, vol. 52, no. 8/2, 2004
The structural position and tectonosedimentary evolution
of the Polish Outer Carpathians
Nestor Oszczypko*
A b s t r a ct. The sedimentary basins of the Outer Carpathians are regarded as the remnant oceanic basins that were transformed into
the foreland basin. These basins developed between the colliding European continent and the intra-oceanic arcs. In the pre-orogenic
and syn-orogenic evolution of the Carpathian basins the following prominent periods can be established: Middle Jurassic — Early
Cretaceous opening of basins and post-rift subsidence, Late Cretaceous — Palaeocene inversion, Palaeocene to Middle Eocene subsi-
dence, Late Eocene–Early Miocene synorogenic closing of the basins. In the Outer Carpathian sedimentary area the important driving
forces of the tectonic subsidence were syn- and post-rift thermal processes as well as the emplacement of the nappe loads related to the
subduction processes. Similar to the other orogenic belts, the Outer Carpathians were progressively folded towards the continental
margin. This process was initiated at the end of the Palaeocene at the Pieniny Klippen Belt Magura Basin boundary and completed
during Early Burdigalian in the northern part of the Krosno flysch basin.
Key words: rifting, inversion, subsidence, tectono-sedimentary evolution, Outer Western Carpathians
The Polish Carpathians are a part of the great arc of
mountains, which stretches for more than 1300 km from
the Vienna Forest to the Iron Gate on the Danube. In the
west the Carpathians are linked with the Eastern Alps, whi-
le in the east they pass into the Balkan chain (Fig. 1). Tradi-
tionally, the Western Carpathians have always been
subdivided into two distinct ranges. The Inner Carpathians
are the older range and the Outer Carpathians are the youn-
ger (Ksi¹¿kiewicz, 1977). The Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB)
is situated between the Inner and Outer Carpathians. The
belt is a Neogene suture zone about 600 km long and 1–20
km wide with a strike-slip boundary (Birkenmajer, 1986).
The Outer Carpathians are built up of stacked nappes and
thrust-sheets, which reveal a different lithostratigraphy and
structure (Fig. 2). Traditionally, three groups of nappes
could be distinguished (Ksi¹¿kiewicz, 1977). The Margi-
nal Group consists mainly of folded Miocene rocks, which
are well represented at the front of the Eastern Carpathians,
whereas the Middle Group (Early/Middle Miocene accre-
tionary wedge) consists of several nappes that form the
corn of the Western and Eastern Carpathians. The Magura
Group (Late Oligocene/Early Miocene accretionary wed-
ge) is flatly overthrust onto the middle group which con-
sists of several nappes: the Fore-Magura–Dukla group,
Silesian, Sub-Silesian and Skole units (Fig. 3). In the Outer
Carpathians the main decollement surfaces are located at
different stratigraphic levels. The Magura Nappe was
uprooted from its substratum at the base of the Turo-
nian–Senonian variegated shales (Oszczypko, 1992), whe-
reas the main decollement surfaces of the middle group are
located in the Lower Cretaceous black shales, with the
exception of the Fore-Magura group of units, which were
detached at the Senonian base. All the Outer Carpathian
nappes are flatly overthrust onto the Miocene deposits of
the Carpathian Foredeep (Oszczypko, 1998; Oszczypko &
Tomaœ, 1985). However, along the frontal Carpathian
thrust a narrow zone of folded Miocene (marginal group)
deposits developed (Pouzdøany, Boryslav–Pokuttya, Steb-
nik (Sambir) and Zg³obice units). In Poland these are repre-
sented mainly by the Zg³obice and partially by the Stebnik
units. The detachment levels of the folded Miocene units
are usually connected with the Lower and Middle Miocene
evaporites.
The basement of the Outer Carpathian is the epi-Va-
riscan platform and its cover (Figs 3–4). The depth of the
platform basement, known from boreholes, changes from a
few hundred metres in the marginal part of the foredeep up
to more than 7000 m beneath the Carpathians. The magne-
to-telluric soundings in the Polish Carpathians have reve-
aled a high resistivity horizon, which is connected with the
top of the consolidated-crystalline basement (¯ytko,
1997). The top of magneto-telluric basement reaches a
depth of about 3–5 km in the northern part of the Carpa-
thians, drops to approximately 15–20 km at its deepest
point and then peaks at 8–10 km in the southern part (Figs
5–6). The axis of the magneto-telluric low coincides, more
or less, with the axis of regional gravimetric minimum.
This was documented by the integrated geophysical model-
ling along the Rzeszów–Bardejov geotraverse (Fig. 6).
South of Krosno this gravimetric low is a result of the com-
bined effect of the thick Carpathian nappes, thick Early
Miocene molasses, and possibly the Mesozoic and
Paleogene deposits related to passive margin of the Euro-
pean Platform (Oszczypko, 1998; Oszczypko et al., 1998).
South of the gravimetric minimum and, more or less
parallel to the PKB, a zone of zero values related to of the
Wiese vectors was found in geomagnetic soundings (Jan-
kowski et al., 1982). This zone is connected with a high
conductivity body at a depth of 10–25 km and is located at
the boundary between the North European Plate and the
Central West Carpathian Block (¯ytko, 1997). In the Polish
Carpathians, the depth of the crust-mantle boundary ranges
from 37–40 km at the front of the Carpathians and incre-
ases to 54 km towards the south before peaking along the
PKB to 36–38 km (Fig. 5).
Main structural units and the problem of the SE
prolongation of the Magura Nappe
Since the 1970s the principal structural units of the
Outer Western Carpathians have been well correlated (see
¯ytko et al., 1989; Lexa et al., 2002). From the west of the
Polish state boundary to the Valaške Mezerice area, where
the Silesian Unit disappears, there is a direct continuity of
*Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geological Sciences,
Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Kraków, Poland; nestor@geos.ing.uj.edu.pl
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Carpathian foredeep molasse
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Magura group of nappes
Borislav–Pokuttya Unit
Pieniny Klippen Belt and other klippes
Skole/Skyba Unit
Tatricum and its sedimentary cover
Sub-Silesian–Zdanice units
Veporicum, Zemplinicum, Hronicum, Gemericum, Meliaticum, Turnaicum and Silicicum
Silesian–Chornohora Unit
Inner Carpathian and Buda Paleogene
Dukla Unit
Neogene Alpine volcanics
Porkulets Unit
Fig. 1. Structural sketch-map of the Northern Carpathians — based on Lexa et al. (2000), Kuzovenko et al. (1996), and Aroldi (2001)
all main structural units (Fig. 1). Further to the SW the
position of the Silesian Unit is occupied by a thin-skinned
Zdanice–Sub-Silesian Unit. At the same time new and
more external, allochthonous tectonic units (Pouzdrany
Unit and then Waschberg zone), have appeared at the front
of Sub-Silesian Unit. The correlation between the structu-
ral units of the middle group in the Polish and Ukrainian
Carpathians has been discussed in detail by ¯ytko (1999).
This particular correlation is more difficult because in the
Ustrzyki Dolne area (Figs 1, 2), close to the Polish/Ukra-
inian boundary, the Sub-Silesian/Silesian overthrust is
overlapped by the Lower Miocene Upper Krosno Beds.
The eastern prolongation of the Sub-Silesian facies is spo-
radically marked by the occurrence of variegated marls
(Rozluch and Holyatyn folds). The southern part of the
Silesian Unit in Poland (i.e., Fore-Dukla Unit and Bystre
thrust sheet) could be correlated with the Chornohora Unit.
According to ¯ytko (1999), the SE prolongation of the
Dukla Unit is related to the Porkulets (Burkut) Nappe,
whereas Ukrainian authors (Shakin et al., 1976; Burov et
al., 1986) link the northern boundary of the Dukla Unit to
the Krasnoshora and Svidovets subunits. The southern-
most units of the Ukrainian Carpathians belong to the
Rakhiv and Kamianyj Potik units, which are correlated
with the Ceahleu and Black Flysch units of the Romanian
Eastern Carpathians, respectively. In the Western Outer
Carpathians there are no equivalents of these units. The
Magura Nappe is composed mainly of Upper Cretaceous to
Eocene deposits. The oldest Jurassic–Early Cretaceous
rocks are known from the peri-Pieniny Klippen Belt in
Poland and few localities in Southern Moravia (Birkenme-
jer, 1977; Švabenicka et al., 1997), whereas the youngest
deposits (Early Miocene) have been recently discovered in
the Nowy S¹cz area (Oszczypko et al., 1999; Oszczypko &
Oszczypko-Clowes, 2002). The Magura Nappe is separa-
ted from the PKB by a subvertical Miocene strike-slip
boundary, and flatly thrust at least 50 km towards the north
over its foreland (Figs 2–6). This nappe has been subdivi-
ded into four structural subunits: Krynica, Bystrica, Raèa
and Siary (Fig. 2), which coincide to a large extent with the
corresponding facies zones. On the west the Magura Nappe
is linked with the Rheno–Danubian flysch of the Eastern
Alps. Towards the east this nappe extends to Poland and
runs through Eastern Slovakia before disappearing beneath
the Miocene volcanic rocks, east of Uzhhorod (Trans-Car-
pathian Ukraine).
In the SE part of the Ukrainian and Romanian Carpa-
thians, the zone of the Marmarosh (Maramures) Flysch has
been distinguished (Smirnov, 1973; Sandulescu, 1988;
Aroldi, 2001). Between the Latorica and Shopurka rivers
this zone is bounded from NE by the Marmarosh Klippens
and further to SE by the the Marmarosh Massif, which are
thrust over the Lower Cretaceous flysch of the Rakhiv and
Porkulets units (Fig. 7). In the Marmarosh Flysch zone two
facies-tectonic units have been distinguished: the external
Vezhany, and the internal Monastyrets units (Smirnov,
1973).
The basal part of the Vezhany Unit is built up of oli-
stostrome, up to 100–200 m thick and is composed of Meso-
zoic carbonate rocks, serpentinites, basic volcanites, grani-
toids and metamorphic rocks. The olistostroma is followed
by a 200 m thick sequence of the Upper Albian–Cenoma-
nian grey and dark grey marly mudstones with intercala-
tions of fine-grained, thin-bedded sandstones of the Soimul
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Fig. 2. Geological map of the Polish Carpathians (after ¯ytko et al., 1989 and Lexa et al., 2000 — supplemented)
Formation, around 180 m of the Turonian–Campanian
pelagic red marls of the Puchov type and 30 m of the
Maastrichtian thin-bedded flysch with intercalations of red
shales of the “Jarmuta beds” (Dabagyan et al., 1989). The
upper part of this sequence, 200–300 m thick, is composed
of dark shaly flysch and thick-bedded sandstones of the
Metove Beds (Eocene) with the Upper Eocene variegated
marls at the top (Smirnov, 1973). Higher up in the section
these beds are overlapped by black marls of the Luh Beds.
In the Terebla River section, Oligocene (Rupelian) calcare-
ous nanoplankton was recently discovered (Oszczypko &
Oszczypko-Clowes, 2004). The Luh Beds resemble the
Grybów and Dusyno bituminous marls known from the
Fore-Magura units in Poland and Ukraine. In our opinion,
the Vezhany succession could be regarded as an equivalent
of the Jas³o Unit and the North Fore-Magura thrust sheet in
Poland (Oszczypko & Oszczypko-Clowes, 2004).
The Monastyrets Unit is composed of Coniacian–Pala-
eocene calcareous flysch with red shales (Kalyna beds,
Vialov et al., 1988) at the base. These deposits are followed
by thin-bedded flysch and variegated shales of the Shopur-
ka Beds (Lower–Middle Eocene) and thick-bedded Dra-
hovo Sandstones (Middle–Upper Eocene, see Smirnov,
1973; Andreyeva-Grigorovich et al., 1985). From the south
this unit joins the PKB along the sub-vertical fault.
Towards the NE it is thrust over the Vezhany Unit or direc-
tly onto the Rakhiv or Porkulets nappes.
In the Romanian Maramures equivalents of the Mona-
styrets Unit are known as the Leordina and Petrova units
and are composed of Maastrichtian–Chattian deposits
(Aroldi, 2001). South of the Bohdan Foda Fault position of
the Petrova Unit is occupied by the the Wild Flysch Unit.
According to Aroldi (2001) this unit is a SE prolongation
of the Petrova Unit. All these units have been included by
Aroldi (2001) to the Magura Group of units, which are fla-
tly overthrust towards the NE and S onto the Paleoge-
ne–Lower Miocene deposits of the Borsa Beds. Between
the Botiza–?Krichevo Unit (Late Cretaceous–Oligocene)
and the Wild Flysch Unit, the Middle Jurassic–Oligocene
Poiana Botizei Klippens are wedged. These klippes are
regarded by Aroldi (2001) as the SE termination of the
PKB, but according to Bombita et al. (1992) they represent
the intra-Magura klippens (like Hluk Klippe in S Moravia).
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Lower Carboniferous
Upper Carboniferous
Lower Cretaceous–Paleogene
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consolidated basement
of the Inner Carpathians
Proterozoic–Lower Paleozoic
of the Bruno-Vistulicum
Triassic
Senonian–Paleocene
boreholes
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Eocene
IC Inner Carpathians
Lower Palaeozoic
Pieniny Klippen Belt
Lower Miocene
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Fig. 3. Geological cross-section (A–B) Orawa-Sosnowiec (after Oszczypko et al., in print)
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UNIT
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Bystrica Subunit
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Obidowa IG1
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Wiœniowa IG1
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Inner Carpathians
High Tatra crystalline basement
and its sedimentary cover (Tatricum)
Upper Cretaceous variegated marls
of the Sub-Silesian Unit
Palaeocene–Eocene
Krosno & Malcov Formations
Sub-Tatricum units (Fatricum)
Waksmund Formation (Lower Miocene)
Eocene and Oligocene
of the Podhale Flysch
Outer Carpathians
Eocene
Upper Miocene post-tectonic cover
Platform basement and Carpathian foredeep
Pieniny Klippen Belt
Eocene variegated shales
Vendian–Lower Cambrian
of the Ma³opolska Massif
Lower Cretaceous
Grybów Unit
Platform carbonate cover
(Meso–Palaeozoic)
Lower/Middle Miocene
Upper Cretaceous–Palaeocene
Menilite shales (Oligocene)
Carpathian overthrust
Magura overthrust
other overthrusts
Fig. 4. Geological cross-section (C–D) Nowy Targ IG1—Wiœniowa IG 1
The Marmarosh Flysch of the Eastern Carpathians
(Ukraine ad Romania) revealed several similarities to the
Magura Nappe of the Western Carptahians in Slovakia and
Poland. These nappes occupied the same geotectonic posi-
tion and they are bounded from the north and south by the
Fore-Magura group of units and PKB, respectively. The
Magura and Marmarosh flysch successions revealed the
same basin development trends, palaeocurent direction and
location of source areas. Both these successions revealed a
prominent, northward progradation of the Eocene/Oligoce-
ne thick-bedded muscovitic sandstones (see ¯ytko, 1999).
In the Marmarosh Flysch this is manifested by occur-
rence of the Secu Sandstones (Lutetian–Priabonian) in the
Botiza Unit, Stramtura/Drahovo Sandstones (Priabonian)
in the Petrova/Monastyrets Unit and the Voroniciu Sandsto-
nes (Rupelian–Chattian) in the Leordina Unit (Aroldi, 2001).
According to ¯ytko (1999) the Petrova/Monastyrets,
Botiza and Wild Flysch units of the Marmarosh Flysch
could be the equivalents of the Raèa, Bystrica and Krynica
subunits of the Magura Nappe respectively. Taking into
account facies prolongation of the Petrova/Monastyrets
Unit into the Wild Flysch Unit (Aroldi, 2001) and the lack
of £¹cko Marls in the Botiza Unit, these correlations
should be modified. It appears that there are no equivalents
of the Bystrica succession in the Marmarosh Flysch, and
the Botiza succession better fits the Krynica succession
than that of the Wild Flysch (see Oszczypko & Oszczyp-
ko-Clowes, 2004).
In view of the internal position of the Marmarosh Fly-
schinrelationtotheMarmaroshMassif,aswellasthe
above mentioned similarities between:
1) the Vezhany and Fore-Magura/Jas³o successions,
2) the Monastyrets/Petrova and Raèa and
3) the Botiza and Krynica successions, it is possible to
conclude that the palaeogeographical positions of the Mar-
marosh Massif and the buried Silesian Ridge were almost
the same (see Sandulescu, 1988; Oszczypko, 1992, 1999).
The Evolution of the Outer Carpathian basins
The Outer Carpathians are composed of Late Jurassic
to Early Miocene mainly flysch deposits. The sedimentary
sequences of the main tectonic units differ in the facies
development as well as in the thickness. The thicker sedi-
mentary cover belongs to the Silesian Unit, which varies
from 3000 m, in its western part, to more than 5000 m in the
east. The stratigraphic thickness of the other tectonic units
is distinctively thinner and varies between 3000 and 3800
m in the Skole Unit, around 1000 m in the Sub-Silesian
Unit, 2300–2500 m in the Dukla Unit and 2500–3500 m in
the Magura Nappe (Poprawa et al., 2002a). Taking into
account the distribution of facies, the thickness of the depo-
sits and the palaeocurrent directions (see Ksi¹¿kiewicz,
1962) only the Magura, Silesian and Skole basins could be
considered as independent sedimentary areas (see also
Nemèok et al., 2000). During the Late Cretaceous–Eocene
times, the Sub-Silesian depositional area formed a subma-
rine high dividing the Skole and Silesian basins. The histo-
ry of the Dukla sedimentary area, which played the role of a
transfer zone between the Magura and Silesian basins, was
more complex. According to the reconstructions of Roure
et al. (1993) and Behrman et al. (2000), the Outer Carpa-
thian basins during the Early Oligocene were at least 380
km wide across the Przemyœl–Hanu
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This restoration does not include the Silesian Ridge, at
least 20–50 km wide (see Unrug, 1968), located between
the Magura and Silesian depositional areas. This suggests
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CARPATHIANS
PKB
SLOVAKIA POLAND
OUTER CARPATHIANS
NW
Krynica
Nowy S¹cz
Bochnia
MAGURA
NAPPE
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300 °
400 °
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Podhale flysch
Pieniny Klippen
Belt
Dukla and
Grybów units
Mesozoic
high resistivity basement
(after ¯ytko, 1997)
boreholes
Fatricum
Krynica subunit
of Magura Nappe
Sub-Silesian
and Silesian units
Palaeozoic
low-resistivity horizon
(after ¯ytko, 1997)
CO ascension
2
Tatricum
Bystrica subunit
of Magura Nappe
Badenian
and Sarmatian
upper crust
400 °
isotherms
Moho
Vahicum
Siary and Raca subunits
of Magura Nappe
Palaeogene and
Lower Miocene
lower crust
faults and
overthrusts
DK
Krynica dislocation
upper trench
Fig. 5. Geological cross-section (E–F) Krynica–Bochnia (after Oszczypko & Zuber, 2002 — suplemented)
that the entire width of the Outer Carpathian domain rea-
ched at least 500 km.
Traditional opinions suggest that the Magura and Sile-
sian basins were situated parallel to each other (see
Ksi¹¿kiewicz, 1962; Unrug, 1968, 1979; Birkenmajer,
1986). This view was recently questioned by Nemèok et al.
(2000) who placed the Magura depositional area as the
south-western neighbour of the Silesian depositional area,
whereas the present-day position of these units is a result of
the Miocene eastwards escape of the Magura Nappe. This
model does not fit the facies distribution in the Polish Outer
Carpathians (Bieda et al., 1963), palaeocurent measure-
ments, nor the transitional position of the Dukla suc-
cession, between the Magura and Silesian basins.
The sedimentary succession of the Outer Carpathians
(Table 1) reveals three different megasequences of depo-
sits, reflecting the main stages of the basins development
(Poprawa et al., 2002a). The first (long lasting) and third
(relatively short) periods were characterized by the unifica-
tion of sedimentary conditions, whereas the intermediate
periods were characterized by a maximal differentiation of
sedimentary conditions.
longation towards the east (Oszczypko, 1992; Golonka et
al., 2000, 2003). This oceanic domain was divided by the
submerged Czorsztyn Ridge into the NE and SE arms. The
Czorsztyn Ridge and the Inner Carpathian domain were
separated by the SE arm of the Pieniny Ocean, known also
as the Vahicum Oceanic Rift (south Penninic domain),
whereas NE arm was occupied by the Magura deep-sea
basin situated south of the European shelf, an equivalent of
the north-Penninic (Valais) domain (see also, Plasienka,
2003). This stage of the Magura Basin evolution is rather
speculative, because the Magura Nappe was uprooted
roughly at the base of the Upper Cretaceous sequence. The
Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous deposits of the Magura Basin
were probably represented by deep water, condensed pela-
gic limestones and radiolarites. At the end of the Jurassic in
the southern part of the European shelf, the palaeorifts
were floored by a thinned continental crust (Birkenmajer,
1988; Sandulescu, 1988). This rifted European margin was
incorporated into the Outer Carpathian Basin (Skole,
Sub-Silesian/Silesian basins). The rifting process was
accompanied by a volcanic activity (teschenite sills, dykes,
and local pillow lavas), which persisted up to the end of
Hauterivian (Luciñska-Anczkiewicz et al., 2002; Grabow-
ski et al., 2004). This part of the rifted continental margin
probably extended in the Eastern Carpathian (basic effu-
sives —Tithonian–Hauterivian), see Lashkevich et al.
(1995) of the “Black Flysch”, Kamyany Potic, and Rakhiv
beds) as well as to the Southern Carpathian (Sandulescu,
1988). During the initial stage of development, the Silesian
Basin was filled with calcareous flysch followed by silicic-
lastic flysch and pelagic shales. The Early Cretace-
ous–Cenomanian deposition took place during relatively
Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous opening of basins
and post-rift subsidence (125–150 My)
The Outer Carpathian basins can be regarded as rem-
nant ocean basins, which developed between the colliding
European continent and the intra-oceanic arcs (Oszczypko,
1999). The Early/Middle Jurassic opening of the Magura
Basin was probably coeval with the timing of the
Ligurian–Penninic Ocean opening and its supposed pro-
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