Subsidence versus deposition - Quantitative analysis for the Polish Outer Carpathian Basins.

Origin of the Outer Carpathian basins is related here to the late Jurassic (? –Hauterivian) rifting. Post-rift thermal sag mechanism controlled the early Cretaceous (?Barremian)-Cenomanian subsidence of the basins. Two phases of tectonic uplift were recognised: the Turonian-Maastrichtian one and, more prominent, the late Eocene-early Oligocene one. The onset of syn-orogenic, extremely rapid deposition migrated in time from the inner (Early Eocene) to the outer zone (Late Oligocene) of the system of basins.