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Similarities of and differences between three mountain belts at the border of the pannonian basin due to the behaviour of the mohorovičić discontinuity

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The Dinarides, the Eastern Alps and the Western Carpathians being situated at the borders of the Pannonian basin, are of very similar origin. Therefore, the results obtained in the investigation of correlations between Earth gravity field parameters (absolute geoid undulations, gravity anomalies), the surface topography and the shape of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, were compared. It was found that these three regions have the same basic characteristics, but also their own specific features. While the similarities follow clearly from these investigations, the found differences might partly be a consequence of non-uniformity and unmatched quality of data sets used for the three regions.

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  1. Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Krešimir Čolić & Svetozar Petrović

  2. Graz University of Technology, Austria

    Hans Sünkel

  3. Renoirova 619, 15200, Praha 5, Czech Republic

    Miloslav Burda

  4. Geophysical Institute, Slovak Acad. Sci., Bratislava

    Miroslav Bielik

  5. Geophysical Institute, Acad. Sci. Czech Republic, Prague

    Vincenc Vyskočil

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A short version of this paper, entitled "Kindredness of three mountain belts at the border of the Pannonian basin — deduced from the behavior of the Mohorovičić discontinuity" was presented at the 7th International Symposium "Geodesy and Physics of the Earth", Potsdam, October 5–10, 1992 and published in the Proceedings.

Presently a visiting professor at the Graz University of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Geodesy, Department for Physical Geodesy, Austria.

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Čolić, K., Petrović, S., Sünkel, H. et al. Similarities of and differences between three mountain belts at the border of the pannonian basin due to the behaviour of the mohorovičić discontinuity. Stud Geophys Geod 38, 131–139 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295909

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