構造窗

構造窗（）是指推覆體或大型逆掩斷層的上盤岩席在侵蝕作用下蝕穿斷層面，使下盤岩石局部出露地表形成的上盤岩席環繞、四周以斷層線為界的下盤局部露頭Twiss, Robert J. and Eldridge M. >Moores, Structural Geology, W. H. Freeman, 1992, p. 36 ISBN 978-0716722526。大小可以從幾米到數百公里，典型的構造窗的是東阿爾卑斯山脈的（亦称）和西喀爾巴阡山脈的 Hrzdavá dolina 構造窗 Schmid, S.M., Scharf, A., Handy, M.R., Rosenberg, C.L., 2013, The Tauern Window (Eastern Alps, Austria): a new tectonic map, with cross-sections and a tectonometamorphic synthesis. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 106, 1–32, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-013-0123-Vojtko, R., Králiková, S., Jeřábek, P., Schuster, P., Danišík, M., Fügenschuh, B., Minár, J., Madarás, J., 2016, Geochronological evidence for the Alpine tectono-thermal evolution of the Veporic Unit (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Tectonophysics, 666, 48-65, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.10.014。

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