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Tectonically Significant Fault Zones in Central Europe (Germany, Czech Republic and Poland) and Their Surface and Subsurface Outcrops: Franconian Line, Hronov-Porici Fault, Sudetic Marginal Fault and Lusatian Fault

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This chapter describes and documents four main fault zones in central Europe and their outcrops in (sub)surface as a geological field guide. These up to 1500 km long often morphologically distinctive fault zones, including The Sudetic Marginal Fault, the Lusatian Fault, the Hronov-Porici Fault and the Franconian Line, are mainly oriented in the NW–SE direction. These fault zones played an essential role in controlling tectonics in Central Europe. They were reactivated during geological history, and some of them are also considered active. The fault zones cross three states, namely Germany, Czech Republic and Poland.

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Many thanks belong to my husband Petr for his support. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues, namely Prof. L. Raschbacher, Dr R. Jonckheeree, Dr B. Wauschkuhn, Dr J. Malek and C. Aslanian for their helpful discussions. This work was carried out with the support of the long-term conceptual development research organisation RVO: 67985891. The research was funded by the EU/MEYS (CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/19_074/0014756). Soumyajit Mukherjee (IIT Bombay) invited, handled and reviewed this article. Mukherjee (2023) summarized this chapter. Alexis Vizcaino and the proofreading team (Springer) are thanked.

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Novakova, L. (2023). Tectonically Significant Fault Zones in Central Europe (Germany, Czech Republic and Poland) and Their Surface and Subsurface Outcrops: Franconian Line, Hronov-Porici Fault, Sudetic Marginal Fault and Lusatian Fault. In: Mukherjee, S. (eds) Structural Geology and Tectonics Field Guidebook—Volume 2. Springer Geology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19576-1_3

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