On the Sava Suture Zone: Post-Neotethyan oblique subduction and the origin of the Late Cretaceous mini-magma pools

The Lithosphere and Upper Mantle of the Western‐Central Mediterranean Region From Integrated Geophysical‐Geochemical Modeling

“…Our best fitting model shows that the easternmost domain of the profile, including the internal Dinarides (Adria microplate) and the Carpathian‐Balkanides (Dacia microplate) is characterized by a two‐layered crust of variable thickness, covered by a thick sedimentary cover showing lateral thickness variations. The Adria and Dacia domains are separated by the Sava Suture Zone, exposing remnants of the former Vardar Ocean, which closed at the end of the Cretaceous (e.g., Schmid et al., 2020; Spahić & Gaudenyi, 2022) (Figure 2).…”

“…The Adria and Dacia domains are separated by the Sava Suture zone, which stretches from the eastern Alps in the northwest to the Dinarides in the southeast, encompassing a significant portion of the western Balkanides. The suture is mainly composed of a mélange of flysch, ophiolites and metamorphic rocks with densities ranging between 2,200 and 2,800 kg/m 3 for the flysch sedimentary rocks and 2,900–3,500 kg/m 3 for the metamorphic and ophiolitic rocks (Spahić & Gaudenyi, 2022; Ustaszewski et al., 2010). Our best fitting model shows an average density of 2,850 kg/m 3 for the entire Sava Suture Zone complex (Table 1).…”

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).…”