Comment on Dörr and Zulauf: Elevator tectonics and orogenic collapse of a Tibetan-style plateau in the European Variscides: the role of the Bohemian shear zone. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) (2010) 99: 299–325

The present comment disproves the tectonic model of a late Devonian/early Carboniferous Tibetan-style collisional plateau in the Tepla-Barrandean (TB) part of the Bohemian Massif, which later collapsed by thermal weakening of the underlying crust. Contrary to this model, the TB neither reveals major crustal thickening nor uplift and erosion, and eastern continuations of the TB were, during the relevant time-span, areas of open marine...