A hidden suture within the northern Paleotethyan margin: Paleogeographic/paleo-tectonic constraints on the late Paleozoic 'Veles Series' (Vardar Zone, North Macedonia)

Early Paleozoic Cenerian (Sardic) geodynamic relationships of peripheral eastern north Gondwana affinities: revisiting the Ordovician of the Getic/Kučaj nappe (eastern Serbia)

“…The youn gest late Al pine or Neoalpine, of extensional-type, oc curred in the Oligo-Mio cene (Maroviae et al, 2007). Oligo-Mio cene ex ten sion fol lowed a pre cur sor (i) Eoalpine event (Late Cre ta ceous-Paleogene; Dimitrijeviae, 1997; Spahiae and Gaudenyi, 2022), pre ceded by (ii) "Eocimmerian dock ing" or an "Early Cim mer ian" compressional event in the Late Tri as sic (Zulauf et al, 2015;Spahiae et al, 2019b;Spahiae, 2020a, b). (iii) The early Al pine event was an extensional ep i sode (lat est Perm ian-Tri as sic-Ju ras sic) that ap peared af ter (iv) pro tracted Variscan amal gam ation, link ing late Car bon if er ous events with ig ne ous ac tiv ity in the Early Perm ian (Medaris et al, 2003;Winchester et al, 2006;Jovanoviae et al, 2019).…”

The role of the pre-Alpine polycrystalline basement in the paleogeographic configuration of multiple Neotethyan oceanic basins

“…The Paleozoic configuration of the amalgamated early Alpine Central European terranes (southern Laurussia in the Late Paleozoic framework and slightly postdating Eurasia) was controlled by the recurring Neoproterozoic -Lower to Middle Paleozoic plate-tectonic interplay between the fragmented peri-Gondwanan exotic terrane agglomerations and a fragmented south Euroasian foreland (e.g., Avigad et al, 2016;Zlatkin et al, 2014Zlatkin et al, , 2017Siegesmund et al, 2018;Spahić & Gaudenyi, 2019a). The early Pan-African to Lower Paleozoic peri-Gondwanan arc interval (Kearey et al, 2009 and references therein) was followed by the late Variscan Paleotethyan closure and assembly of the southern realm of European Pangea (e.g., Stampfli & Kozur, 2006;Kroner & Romer, 2013;Zulauf et al, 2018;Spahić et al, 2019a). The Middle Paleozoic spreading culminated during Variscan crustal thickening event best recorded along the western Moesian microplate (Iancu et al, 2005;Plissart et al, 2018;Spahić et al, 2019b;Šoster et al, 2020).…”

“…The Middle Paleozoic spreading culminated during Variscan crustal thickening event best recorded along the western Moesian microplate (Iancu et al, 2005;Plissart et al, 2018;Spahić et al, 2019b;Šoster et al, 2020). The Paleotethyan subduction outlived the Variscan event (Pamić & Jurković, 2002;Spahić et al, 2019a), whereas the closure of Paleotethys itself is attributed to the poorly understood Triassic Eocimmerian "docking" (Zulauf et al, 2015). The Eocimmerian "docking" in the region seems to be controlled by the Triassic tectonic interaction among the North African ribbon continent (Stampfli et al, 2001), involving predominantly Cadomian-(Minoan) type crystalline fragments (Zulauf et al, 2015;Šoster et al, 2020).…”

“…2a). The northern gneiss-dominating basement branch of the Pelagonides (North Macedonia; see Spahić et al, 2019a and references therein) and those of Greece are of mixed peri-Amazonian inheritance (i.e. Zlatkin et al, 2017).…”

Intraoceanic subduction of the northwestern Neotethys and geodynamic interaction with Serbo-Macedonian foreland: Descending vs. overriding near-trench dynamic constraints (East Vardar Zone, Jastrebac Mts., Serbia)

“…Across the West Balkan countries, a shortlived Neotethyan ocean left several episodes of oceanic crust production and its de batab le emplacement on local continental margins (e.g., DiMiTriJEVić, 1997;kArAMATA, 2006;SChMiD et al, 2008). in addition, its unconstrained basement remains to be a highly controversial topic (e.g., VAN hiNSBErGEN et al, 2019;SPAhić et al, 2019b). The evidence of a principal Mesozoic-Cenozoic shortening event is best exposed in what is now SE Europe (SEE).…”