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Advances in Active Tectonics and Speleotectonics Book of Abstracts Ivo Baroň, Kurt Decker, Esther Hintersberger, Ivanka Mitroviċ, & Lukas Plan (Eds.) Natural History Museum Vienna & University of Vienna, Austria 20. – 24. September, 2015 Advances in Active Tectonics and Speleotectonics Date: September 20 – 24, 2015 Venue and arrival Natural History Museum Vienna Burgring 7 1010 Vienna, Austria Public transport – Subway station U2 and U3 “Volkstheater”, tram & bus stop 1, 2, 46, 49, 71, D, 48A “Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring”, Public transport router planner: www.anachb.at Arrival by car – we suggest parking your car in your hotel considering regulated parking in the center of Vienna (http://www.wien.gv.at/english/transportation/parking/shortterm.htm) Program overview • Sunday, 20 September Ice breaker party (including registration and Speleotect movie projection) Meeting point at 18:30 at the “Gate” (facing Burgring street – see map below) • Monday, 21 September 8:00 registration; 8:30 Oral presentations – presentation room (next to main visitors entrance – see map below) Afternoon: Field trip to the central Vienna Basin – meeting at 13:30 at the “Gate” (visit to Heurigen-Restaurant included) • Tuesday, 22 September 8:30 Oral and poster sessions – presentation room • Wednesday - Thursday, 23 - 24 September Field trip to southern Vienna Basin and surroundings (Eisenstein and Emmerberg Caves), and Periadriatic Fault (Obir Caves & Dobratsch; Carinthia) Meeting point on Wednesday at 8:00 at the “Gate” (facing Burgring street – see map below), transport back to Vienna with latest arrival on Thursday at 21:00 (please consider it when booking your next transport or accommodation, individual arrangement upon request possible). Registration desk will be opened on Sunday from 18:30 to 20:00 next to the Gate (entrance from the Burgring street) and on Monday from 8 to 8:30 next to the Main visitors entrance 1 Organizers Ivo Baroň (Natural History Museum, Vienna) Kurt Decker (University of Vienna) Esther Hintersberger (University of Vienna) Ivanka Mitroviċ (Natural History Museum and University of Vienna) Lukas Plan (Natural History Museum, Vienna) 2 AATS Workshop Program: Sunday 20 September, 2015 19:00 23:59 Ice-breaker party and the Speleotect movie projection (meeting at Gate at 18:30 p.m.) Monday 21 September, 2015 8:30 8:40 Invitation, acknowledgements and organizing remarks Organizers 8:40 9:20 Key note talk: State-of-arts of the active-tectonics studies Raul Perez-Lopez 9:20 9:35 Coffee break Near-surface and ground-surface active tectonics: 9:35 10:15 Earthquake research from space by using InSAR Henriette Sudhaus (DE) 10:15 10:30 Active Tectonics in the Eastern Alps and Surroundings Kurt Decker (AT) 10:30 11:10 Coffee break 11:10 11:30 Sediment burial dating as a tool in active tectonics research - chances and challenges Lüthgens, C., Neuhuber, S., Braumann, S., Fiebig, M. Jamšek Rupnik P., Atanackov J., Jež J., Milanič B., 11:30 11:50 Database of active faults in Slovenia Celarc B., Novak M. & Bavec M. Quaternary tectonics on the Sudetic Marginal Fault as revealed by trenching and Štěpančíková P., Tábořík P., Hartvich F., Stemberk J., 11:50 12:10 geophysics (Kamenička site) Corominas O. Fault linkage model of strike-slip and normal faults in the Vienna Basin (Austria) based on Hintersberger E., Decker K., Lomax J., Fiebig M., 12:10 12:30 paleoseismological constraints Lüthgens C. 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 20:00 Excursion Vienna Basin Tuesday 22 September, 2015 Speleotectonics & Speleoseismites I.: 8:30 9:10 Cave Damage Caused by Neotectonics and Earthquakes ̶ or Not? Anfried Becker (CH) Quaternary faulting in the Tatra Mts. from the perspective of the cave morphology and 9:10 9:50 Szczygieł J. fault-slip analysis 9:50 10:10 Coffee break 10:10 10:25 Quaternary fault activity revealed in caves in the Eastern Alps Plan L., Baroň I., Grasemann B., Mitrovic I. Are we able to identify co-seismic deformation in caves? Comparative Study of naturally 10:25 10:45 Mitrovic I., Plan L., Grasemann B., Baroň I. and experimentally sheared calcite speleothems 10:45 11:00 Coffee break Monitoring of active tectonics and related phenomena: 11:00 11:40 Slow aseismic fault slip recorded across Europe Josef Stemberk, Mathew D. Rowberry (CZ) 11:40 12:00 Relationship between CO2 content in fault caves and microseismicity Perez-Lopez R. 12:00 12:20 Monitoring of caves in mining areas: Case studies from Brazil Auler A.S., Souza T.A.R. Baroň I., Plan L., Grasemann B., Mitrovic I., Stemberk 12:20 12:40 Current fault activity observed in caves of the Eastern Alps J. 12:40 14:00 Lunch Speleotectonics & Speleoseismites II.: Elisa Kagan (IL) et Bar-Matthews M., Ayalon A., 14:00 14:40 Soreq Caves: a 200,000 year-long dated speleo-seismite earthquake archive Braun Y., Agnon A. Braun Y., Kagan E., Bar-Matthews M., Ayalon A., Dating speleoseismites near the Dead Sea transform and the Carmel fault: clues to 14:40 15:00 Agnon A. coupling of a plate boundary and its branch 15:00 15:15 Coffee break Pérez-López R., Garduño-Monroy V.H., Rodríguez- 15:15 15:35 Mega earthquake affecting the Cacahuailpa cave, Mexico Pascua M.A., Israde-Alcántara I. Gribovszki K., Bokelmann G., Mónus P., Kóvacs K., 15:35 15:55 Constraints on Long-Term Seismic Hazard From Vulnerable Stalagmites Konečný P., Lednická M., Hegymegi E., Novák A. 15:55 16:10 Coffee break Poster session: Small-scale seismites in cave clastic deposits: preliminary results from the Kalacka Cave, 16:10 16:15 Szczygieł J., Wróblewski W., Mendecki M. Tatra Mts., Poland 16:15 16:20 The seismothems of the Emine-Bair-Khosar Cave (Crimea) Kalush I., Ridush B. Recent evidences of Plio-quaternary tectonic activity in the Constantine Basin (North-East 16:20 16:25 Mohammedi Y., Djellit H., Hamidatou M. of Algeria) Pérez-López R., Bañón E., Patyniak M., Durán-Valsero 16:25 16:30 Speleoseismology of Benis cave: evidence of a M6 paleoearthquake 75 yr BP J.J., Giner-Robles J.L., Rodríguez-Pascua M.A., Martínez-Díaz J.J. Speleotectonic constrains from the ‘Tripa tou Fournari’ cave, Thessaloniki, Greece (a 16:30 16:35 Pennos C., Lauritzen S.-E., Gkarlaouni C., Sotidiadis Y. preliminary report). 16:35 16:40 Morphostructure analysis of Waitzendorf and Diendorf faults - Some preliminary results Stemberk J. jr., Decker K., Štěpančíková P. Installation of an automated fault displacement monitoring system at a geological test 16:40 16:45 Rowberry M.D., Martí X., Stemberk J. site in northern Bohemia 16:45 17:05 Coffee break and discussion Active tectonics and speleogenesis: Age of the allogenic quartz pebbles from Snežna jama, Huda luknja and Špehovka for 17:05 17:25 Mihevc A., Häuselmann P., Fiebig M. implication of tectonic uplift Kamnik Alps and Karavanke, Slovenia 17:25 17:45 Active tectonics and hypogean caves: a view from the Apennines of Italy Menichetti M. Non karst caves of the Polish Flysch Carpathians and their connection with stages of mass 17:45 18:05 Margielewski W., Urban J., Szura C. movement formation: tectonic constraints, dating and classification Tectonic inception and the one-eighth relationship that constrains deglacial neotectonism 18:05 18:25 Faulkner T. and cave development in most Caledonide marbles 3 4 Advances in Active Tectonics and Speleotectonics 2015, Vienna, Austria Monitoring of caves in mining areas: Case studies from Brazil Augusto S. Auler1 & Tatiana A. R. Souza1 1 Instituto do Carste, Rua Aquiles Lobo 197, Belo Horizonte, 30150-160, Minas Gerais, Brazil, [email protected] Under Brazilian legislation, subsoil features, including caves and mineral deposits, belong to the union and can only be exploited according to strict laws. Detailed geological and biological studies should be performed in each cave in order to determine its significance level: Maximum, High, Medium or Low (Auler & Piló, 2015). No environmental impact is allowed in maximum significance caves and a buffer zone must be established, taking into consideration the preservation of cave dynamics, including hydrogeology, structural integrity, ecosystem conservation, etc. Although caves of high, medium and low significance can be subject to environmental impacts, buffer protection zones must also be applied until the approval of studies, a complex procedure that may take at least 1.5 years. Out of the many factors that have to be taken into consideration in establishing the protection buffer zone, cave integrity in relation to present or future blasting scenarios is among the most complex. Because these new laws came into application in 2008, it is extremely common for caves to be located in close proximity (or even inside) quarries, resulting in mining closure and considerable financial losses. Variations related to rock type (caves in iron-ore, limestone and quartzite), distinct fragility of various features in caves (speleothems, rock projections, etc) and structural and lithological changes on the terrain between the blasting site and the caves make calculations related to explosive amount and blast design difficult. There is no established Peak Particle Velocity (PPV) criteria for caves, and thus, adaptations from international standards related to very sensitive structures (e.g. historical building or monuments of special value or significance) have been adopted, resulting in PPV between 5 – 15 mm/sec. Cave monitoring for physical integrity in Brazil initially involves a detailed characterization of zones more susceptible to breakdown, sometimes including joint aperture measurements and modelling. A second step deals with high resolution photograph monitoring according to Moura et al. (2013). A cave fragility zoning is thus established, allowing for the determination of the cave areas more favourable to collapse. Regular visits and repeated photographs in the same sites enable the determination of even minute changes in the cave configuration. In parallel, seismograph monitoring allows for control of the blasting intensity and correlations to possible cave damage.