The Pieniny Klippen Belt is in
geology
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a
tectonically and
orographically
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remarkable zone in the
Western Carpathians
The Western Carpathians are a mountain range and geomorphological province that forms the western part of the Carpathian Mountains.
The mountain belt stretches from the Low Beskids range of the Eastern Carpathians along the border of Poland wit ...
, with a very complex geological structure. It is a narrow (only 0.4 to 19 km) and extremely long (about 600 km) north banded zone of extreme shortening and sub-vertical
strike-slip
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fault zone, with complex geological history, where only fragments of individual
strata
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and
facies
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are preserved. The Pieniny Klippen Belt is considered one of the main tectonic
suture
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s of the
Carpathians
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and forms the boundary between the
Outer
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