The Vardar-Tethyan mega-suture between the Eurasian and Adria (Gondwana) margins comprises remnants of oceanic lithosphere of Neotethys and distal parts of the adjacent continental margins including unconformable Late Cretaceous sedimentary cover and Cenozoic igneous rocks of post-obduction age. This study provides kinematic constraints for displacements and rotations affecting the Serbian part of the West Vardar and Jadar-Kopaonik units after the closure of the Neotethyan (= Sava) Ocean. The targets of the paleomagnetic research were Late Cretaceous sediments representing an ...
... counterclockwise vertical-axis rotation of Adria, on the other
hand are related to large scale extension in the southern Pannonian basin.
Keywords Paleomagnetism � Clockwise rotation � Dinarides � West Vardar zone
1 Introduction
The Vardar zone as defined by Kossmat (1924) is a wide
zone (Vardar-Tethyan ...
Vesna Lesić, Emo Márton, Violeta Gajić, Dragana Jovanović, Vesna Cvetkov. "Clockwise vertical-axis rotation in the West Vardar zone of Serbia: Tectonic implications" in Swiss Journal of Geosciences, Basel : Springer International Publishing (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-018-0321-8