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Magnetic fabric of Late Miocene clay-rich sediments from the southern Pannonian basin

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The magnetic fabric of Late Miocene sediments from the southern Pannonian basin was studied on oriented samples collected from 19 geographically distributed localities. All of them are characterized by near-horizontal magnetic foliation plane after tilt correction, indicating weak deformation. Well-developed lineations were observed for 16 localities, which are interpreted as due to compressional/transpressional deformation, except from three localities, where the fabric must have been formed in an extensional setting. Comparison between the orientation of the map-scale folds and faults and magnetic lineation directions shows that magnetic lineation is either related to NNE-SSW directed compression, leading to the formation of folds or it can be connected to NW–SE or NNE-SSW trending dextral faults.

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The authors thank Martin Chadima, Tomasz Werner and an anonymous reviewer for suggestions, which helped to improve the manuscript. Financial support from Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) project no. K68171, the current projects of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, projects no. 195-1951293-3155 (BT), 195-1951293-2703, 195-1951293-0237 (DP) and 181-1811098-1093 (RA) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Palaeomagnetic Laboratory, Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute of Hungary, Columbus 17-23, 1145, Budapest, Hungary

    Emő Márton & Mihály Pethe

  2. Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Bruno Tomljenović & Davor Pavelić

  3. Geophysics Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, 1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Mihály Pethe

  4. Croatian Geological Survey, Sachsova 2, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Radovan Avanić

  5. Geološki Zavod Slovenije, Dimičeva 14, 1109, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Bogomir Jelen

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Márton, E., Tomljenović, B., Pavelić, D. et al. Magnetic fabric of Late Miocene clay-rich sediments from the southern Pannonian basin. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 101, 879–888 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-011-0669-8

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