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Towards resolving Cretaceous to Miocene kinematics of the Adria-Europe contact zone in reconstructions: Inferences from a structural study in a critical Dinarides area

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TERRA NOVA
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 523-534

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12618

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One key element in the current debate analyzing the Central Mediterranean evolution is the Cretaceous structure and kinematics of the oroclinal bent contact between Adria- and Europe-derived continental units in the Dinarides. Our study provides a solution to this debate by analyzing the structural and kinematic history in a key area of central Serbia. The results show that large-scale thrusting deformed the accretionary wedge-trench sediments during the Late Cretaceous subduction of the Neotethys Ocean and the subsequent Adria-Europe collision.
One key element in the current debate analysing the Central Mediterranean evolution is the Cretaceous structure and kinematics of the present-day oroclinal bent contact between Adria- and Europe-derived continental units in the Dinarides, interpreted in different tectonic reconstructions as a subduction-related thrust system or a large-scale strike-slip fault zone. We provide a solution to the debate by a structural and kinematic study in a key area located in central Serbia along the Europe-Adria orogenic suture of the Sava Zone. The results demonstrate that large-scale, top-SW, in- to out-of-sequence thrusting is the dominant mechanism that deformed the observed accretionary wedge-trench sediments during the Late Cretaceous subduction of the Neotethys Ocean and the ensuing Adria-Europe collision. The subsequent Oligocene-Miocene extension of the Pannonian Basin was associated with opposite-sense rotations of different Sava Zone segments, which created the observed similar to 80 degrees oroclinal bending.

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