Eccentricity distribution of thick disk stellar particles for a 2 × (1:10) consecutive minor merger with a gas fraction f_gas = 0.2. As in Fig. 1, stars have been selected in a cylindrical shell at disk scale lengths, R_d, from 2 ≤ R/R_d ≤ 3, and at heights, z₀, from 1 ≤ z/z₀ ≤ 3. The contribution of stars accreted from the satellite galaxies is shown in red.