The Winden Syncline – a tectonic half-graben in the transition between the Lower Austroalpine and the northwestern Pannonian Basin (northern Burgenland, Austria)
- Author(s)
- Hermann Häusler, Werner Chwatal, Juergen Scheibz, Jakob Gallistl
- Abstract
The Winden Depression northwest of the village Neusiedl am See was investigated using high-resolution geophysics such as electric resistivity tomography, seisinics and gravimetry. The interpretation of profiles down to a depth of 300 m derived from reflection and refraction seismics combined with the density model north of Lake Neusiedl clearly reveals a syncline structure located between the Leitha Mountains and the Hackelsberg Range, which belong to the Lower Austroalpine tectonic unit. The northeast-trending Winden Syncline comprises crystalline and Permo-Mesozoic formations covered by Neogene deposits of Badenian to Middle Pannonian age. The southeast to northwest increase of the bed thickness of Neogene growth-strata allows the interpretation of this structure as an asymmetric syncline. Hence the Winden Syncline was presumedly formed by extension from Badenian to Middle Pannonian times. The Hackelsberg Block represents the southeastern flank of the Lower Austroalpine frame south of which the Danube Basin, as northwestern part of the Pannonian Basin, developed. In conclusion the Winden Basin, as a satellite basin of the Vienna Basin, can be described as a very small Neogene basin that originated in northeastern continuation of the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin timely paralleling the main subsidence and extension of the Danube Basin.
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- Technische Universität Wien
- Journal
- German Journal of Geology
- Volume
- 169
- Pages
- 3-25
- No. of pages
- 23
- ISSN
- 1860-1804
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1127/zdgg/2017/0122
- Publication date
- 01-2018
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105126 Applied geophysics, 105124 Tectonics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5a277914-8ee9-4a87-87bc-fb90b0623136