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Deciphering the geodynamic evolution of the Dinaric orogen through the study of the ‘overstepping’ Cretaceous successions

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Giuseppe Nirta Open the ORCID record for Giuseppe Nirta [Opens in a new window] ,
Martin Aberhan ,
Valerio Bortolotti ,
Nicolaos Carras ,
Francesco Menna  and
Milvio Fazzuoli
Giuseppe Nirta*
Affiliation:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, U.O.S. Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
Martin Aberhan
Affiliation:
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, 10115Berlin, Germany
Valerio Bortolotti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
Nicolaos Carras
Affiliation:
Hellenic Survey of Geology and Mineral Exploration (HSGME), Spirou Loui 1, 13677Acharnes, Greece
Francesco Menna
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
Milvio Fazzuoli
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
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Author for correspondence: Giuseppe Nirta, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Along the Dinaric–Hellenic orogen, the Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous ophiolite obduction over the Adria continental margin was sealed by sedimentation of clastic terrestrial deposits rapidly followed by a widespread carbonate platform system since the Early Cretaceous period. These Cretaceous sediments presently crop out over areas of varying extension, from several hundred kilometre wide undeformed continuous covers to small-scale tectonic slivers involved in the tectonic stack following the latest Cretaceous–Palaeogene collision. These deposits are unconformably sedimented above the units formed by the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous nappe stacking above the eastern Adria continental margin. We studied these deposits in a large area between western Serbia and eastern Bosnia. In the studied area, these deposits are divided into three lithostratigraphic groups according to their age, depositional environment and type of underlying basement. The Mokra Gora Group sediments (upper Aptian–Maastrichtian) were deposited on top of previously obducted and weathered ophiolites, the Kosjerić Group (Cenomanian–Campanian) overlies composite tectonic units comprising obducted ophiolites and their underlying continental basement portions, while the Guča Group (Campanian–Maastrichtian) exclusively rests on top of continental basement. The reconstructed sedimentary evolution of these groups, together with the comparison with the syn- and post-obduction deposits at the front of the ophiolitic nappe(s) in a wider area of the internal Dinarides (e.g. Pogari Group and Bosnian flysch), allowed us to clarify the obduction mechanisms, including their tectonic context, the changes in depositional environments and the timing of depositional and tectonic events, and, in a wider view, shed light on the geodynamic evolution of the Dinaric belt.

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Cretaceous transgressionophioliteobductionWestern TethysDinarides
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Geological Magazine , Volume 157 , Issue 8 , August 2020 , pp. 1238 - 1264
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