Tectonic units of the Alpine collision zone between Eastern Alps and western Turkey

SM Schmid, B Fügenschuh, A Kounov, L Maţenco… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present a map that correlates tectonic units between Alps and western Turkey
accompanied by a text providing access to literature data, explaining the concepts used for …

Tithonian limestone as a marker of early contraction of NeoTethyan Vardar Ocean: structural constraints on the latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous “docking” …

D Spahić, M Barjaktarović, S Mukherjee… - Carbonates and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Jurassic–Cretaceous East Vardar Zone (EVZ) is a NNW–SSE-directed
NeoTethyan back-arc crustal amalgamation that passes through Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria …

[PDF][PDF] Rhodope: From Mesozoic convergence to Cenozoic extension. Review of petro-structural data in the geochronological frame

JP Burg - J. Virtual Explor, 2012 - researchgate.net
Mylonitic gneisses of the Bulgarian and Greek Rhodope were deformed under amphibolite-
facies conditions of medium pressure type metamorphism. The kinematic information …

Late Palaeozoic–Cenozoic tectonic development of Greece and Albania in the context of alternative reconstructions of Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region

AHF Robertson - International Geology Review, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this article is to use the geology and tectonics of a critical part of the Tethyan
orogen, represented by Greece and Albania, to shed light on the tectonic development of …

Pre-Alpine evolution of a segment of the North-Gondwanan margin: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from the central Serbo-Macedonian Massif

M Antić, I Peytcheva, A von Quadt, A Kounov… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Serbo-Macedonian Massif (SMM) represents a composite crystalline belt within
the Eastern European Alpine orogen, outcrop** from the Pannonian basin in the north, to …

Tectonic development of the Vardar ocean and its margins: Evidence from the Republic of Macedonia and Greek Macedonia

AHF Robertson, B Trivić, N Đerić, II Bucur - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The tectonic development of the northeast margin of the Korabi-Pelagonian continent and
the adjacent Vardar ocean is discussed based on study of nine traverses across the former …

Structural and geochronological evidence for Paleogene thrusting in the western Rhodopes, SW Bulgaria: Elements for a new tectonic model of the Rhodope …

S Jahn‐Awe, N Froitzheim, TJ Nagel, D Frei… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Rhodope Metamorphic Province in the area around the Mesta Graben (SW Bulgaria)
exposes a structurally lower complex, the Pangaion‐Pirin Complex of Variscan continental …

Magmatic and tectonic history of Jurassic ophiolites and associated granitoids from the South Apuseni Mountains (Romania)

D Gallhofer, A von Quadt, SM Schmid… - Swiss Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The Jurassic ophiolites in the South Apuseni Mountains represent remnants of the
Neotethys Ocean and belong to the East Vardar ophiolites that contain ophiolite fragments …

Peri-Gondwanan Ordovician crustal fragments in the high-grade basement of the Eastern Rhodope Massif, Bulgaria: evidence from U-Pb LA-ICP-MS zircon …

N Bonev, M Ovtcharova-Schaltegger, R Moritz… - Geodinamica …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Field, geochemical, and geochronologic data of high-grade basement metamafic and
evolved rocks are used to identify the nature and timing of pre-Alpine crustal growth of the …

The Circum-Rhodope Belt, northern Greece: age, provenance, and tectonic setting

G Meinhold, DK Kostopoulos - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The Circum-Rhodope Belt (CRB) sensu stricto comprises low-grade metamorphosed
Triassic and Jurassic sedimentary rocks fringing the high-grade metamorphic rocks of the …