Hochstuhl Fault

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The Hochstuhl Fault is a fault in Austria and Slovenia.[1] It is named after Mount Stol, which is named Hochstuhl in German. The fault can be traced from Radenthein (east of Spittal an der Drau), where it follows the Gegendtal, crosses the Drau River and the Karawanks, and ends in the Sava Valley near Radovljica and Kranj.[2] In the southeast it intersects the Periadriatic Fault, which it displaced during the Quaternary. From these movements a dextral strike-slip motion can be observed.[1][3]

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  1. ^ a b Celarc, Bogomir; Vrabec, Marko; Rožič, Boštjan; Kralj, Polona; Rupnik, Petra Jamšek; Kolar - Jurkovšek, Tea; Gale, Luka; Šmuc, Andrej. "Field Trip A1: Southern Alps of Slovenia in a nutshell: paleogeography, tectonics, and active deformation" (PDF). Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt. 99. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. ^ Schmid, Stefan M.; Scharf, Andreas; Handy, Mark R.; Rosenberg, Claudio L. (27 July 2013). "The Tauern Window (Eastern Alps, Austria): a new tectonic map, with cross-sections and a tectonometamorphic synthesis" (PDF). Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 106 (1): 1–32. doi:10.1007/s00015-013-0123-y. hdl:20.500.11850/423052.
  3. ^ Pinter, Nicholas, ed. (2006). The Adria microplate : GPS geodesy, tectonics and hazards : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards, Veszprem, Hungary, April 4-7, 2004]. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-4233-1.