%0 Journal Article %T South-vergent structures observed in the western part of the Kriv¨˘nska Fatra Mts. (Central Western Carpathians) %A Michal Sentpetery %J Acta Geologica Slovaca %D 2011 %I Comenius University in Bratislava %X This paper deals with the reverse (south-vergent) structures observed in the western part of the Kriv¨˘nska Fatra Mts., developed during the Cenozoic evolution of the Western Carpathians. Geological setting of the Kriv¨˘nska Fatra Mts. is interpreted on the basis of geological mapping and observation of mesoscopic and map-scale structures. Pre-Cenozoic nappe structure (from the bottom to the top: Tatric, Fatric, and Hronic units) of the study area was intensively affected and overprinted by a younger tectonic phase, which led to the formation of the present geological setting. Geological structure is typical by the NE¨CSW oriented structures with the top to the S¨CSE tectonic displacement. The age of this tectonic event ¨C south-vergent backthrusting is considered to be the Early Miocene because affected also the sediments of the Central Carpathian Palaeogene Basin. %K Central Western Carpathians %K Kriv¨˘nska Fatra Mts. %K Cenozoic evolution %K backthrusting %K geological mapping %U http://www.geopaleo.fns.uniba.sk/ageos/archive/2011_02/sentpetery_2011.pdf