“…Passive margins developed in the Late Triassic-Jurassic along the thinned ribbon continents, with corresponding carbonate platform building, while northward subduction initiated beneath the Eurasian margin in the Vardar Ocean (De Bono et al, 2001;Stampfli & Borel, 2002). Vardar intra-oceanic subduction and obduction, forming the Paikon island arc during the Late Jurassic, was followed by Pelagonian-Serbomacedonian/Rhodope collision and accretion during the Cretaceous (Bortolotti et al, 2013;Katrivanos et al, 2013;Kilias et al, 2010;Lips et al, 1998;Michard et al, 1998;Ricou et al, 1998;Ring et al, 2010;Scherreiks et al, 2014;Walcott, 1998). The Pelagonian zone records an Early Cretaceous metamorphic/deformation event with basement imbrication (Anders et al, 2007;Kilias et al, 2010;Lips et al, 1998;Schenker et al, 2014), while the Late Cretaceous through Paleogene is characterized by subduction of the Pindos Ocean and eventual accretion and underthrusting of the Tripolitza carbonate platform (Ring et al, 2010;Ring & Layer, 2003).…”