Torn Between Two Plates: Exhumation of the Cer Massif (Internal Dinarides) as a Far‐Field Effect of Carpathian Slab Rollback Inferred From ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Dating and Cross Section Balancing

Abstract

 Activity along the shear zone exhuming Cer metamorphic core complex in the internal Dinarides was dated by Ar-Ar geochronology to ~17 Ma  Exhumation was facilitated by extensional reactivation of Late Cretaceous-Paleogene nappe contacts resulting from Adria-Europe collision  Extensional reactivation of the thrusts is interpreted as a far-field effect of Oligo-Miocene Carpathian slab rollback  Accepted ArticleThis article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as

Late and post-collisional tectonic evolution of the Adria-Europe suture in the Vardar Zone

“…The regional extensional tectonic evolution of the Pannonian basin started between the Dinaridic and the Carpathian slabs (Matenco and Radivojević, 2012;Stojadinović et al, 2013 and references therein), but after the detachment of the Dinaridic slab (Andrić et al, 2018), it was primarily governed by the rollback of the Carpathian slab (Horváth et al, 2015). Some authors favour the rollback of the Carpathian oceanic lithosphere as being the mayor control mechanism of the Oligocene-Miocene extension in the areas of the Pannonian Basin, Dinarides and Southern Carpathians, including the suture zone (Ustaszewski et al, 2010;Stojadinović et al, 2013;Toljić et al, 2013;Fodor et al, 2021;Löwe et al, 2021).…”