The Lavanttal Fault (or Pöls-Lavanttal Fault, Labot Fault; Slovene: Labotski prelom) is a seismically active fault that stretches from Austria in the north to Slovenia in the south.[1][2] The fault strikes NNW-SSE and shows dextral strike-slip movements. In the southern part, the Lavanttal Fault displaces the Periadriatic Fault or Balaton Fault. Movements along the fault led to the formation of the Fohnsdorf Basin and the Lavanttal Basin.[3]

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  1. ^ Wölfler, A.; Kurz, W.; Danišík, M.; Rabitsch, R. (2010). "Dating of fault zone activity by apatite fission track and apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry: a case study from the Lavanttal fault system (Eastern Alps)". Terra Nova: no. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00943.x. S2CID 126416796.
  2. ^ Nicholas Pinter, 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.
  3. ^ Strauss, Philipp; Wagreich, Michael; Decker, Kurt; Sachsenhofer, Reinhard F. (15 March 2001). "Tectonics and sedimentation in the Fohnsdorf-Seckau Basin (Miocene, Austria): from a pull-apart basin to a half-graben". International Journal of Earth Sciences. 90 (3): 549–559. doi:10.1007/s005310000180. S2CID 129161785.