TY - JOUR AU - Csontos, L AU - Vörös, Attila TI - Mesozoic plate tectonic reconstruction of the carpathian region JF - PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY J2 - PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL VL - 210 PY - 2004 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 56 PG - 56 SN - 0031-0182 DO - 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.02.033 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/1236932 ID - 1236932 N1 - Cited By :483 Export Date: 11 November 2022 CODEN: PPPYA Correspondence Address: Csontos, L.; Geological Department, Pazmany P: setany 1/a, Budapest 1117, Hungary; email: csontos@ludens.elte.hu Funding details: Hungarian Science Foundation, T 037595, T 043760 Funding text 1: The authors are indebted to many colleagues for the discussions of earlier oral and written versions of the manuscript. We would like to thank especially F. Horváth, A. Galácz, S. Kovács, M. Kázmér, E. Márton (Budapest), D. Plašienka, M. Kováč (Bratislava), F. Neubauer and Č. Tomek (Salzburg), K. Birkenmajer (Kraków), M. Săndulescu (Bucharest) S. Schmid (Basel) and P. Ziegler (Basel). We express our thanks to W. Frisch, F. Horváth, G. Stampfli, Alonso-Gutierrez, J. Von Raumer, B. Murphy, A. Collins and D. Nance who kindly revised and improved earlier versions of the manuscript. This version was helped by critical remarks of K. Birkenmajer, F. Neubauer, B. Sperner, G. Stampfli, and F. Surlyk. IGCP project 453 is gratefully thanked for moral and material support. Hungarian Science Foundation OTKA projects T 043760, T 037595 are also thanked for support. AB - Palaeomagnetic, palaeobiogeographic and structural comparisons of different parts of the Alpine-Carpathian region suggest that four terranes comprise this area: the Alcapa, Tisza, Dacia and Adria terranes. These terranes are composed of different Mesozoic continental and oceanic fragments that were each assembled during a complex Late Jurassic-Cretaceous Palaeogene history. Palaeomagnetic and tectonic data suggest that the Carpathians are built up by two major oroclinal bends. The Alcapa bend has the Meliata oceanic unit, correlated with the Dinaric Vardar ophiolite, in its core. It is composed of the Western Carpathians, Eastern Alps and Southern Alcapa units (Transdanubian Range, Bukk). This terrane finds its continuation in the High Karst margin of the Dinarides. Further elements of the Alcapa terrane are thought to be derived from collided microcontinents: Czorsztyn in the N and a carbonate unit (Tisza?) in the SE. The Tisza-Dacia bend has the Vardar oceanic unit in its core. It is composed of the Bihor and Getic microcontinents. This terrane finds its continuation in the Serbo-Macedonian Massif of the Balkans. The Bihor-Getic microcontinent originally laid east of the Western Carpathians and filled the present Carpathian embayment in the Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic. The Vardar ocean occupied an intermediate position between the Western Carpathian-Austroalpine-Transdanubian-High Karst margin and the Bihor-Getic-Serbo-Macedonian microcontinent. The Vardar and Pindos oceans were opened in the heart of the Mediterranean-Adriatic microcontinent in the Late Permian-Middle Triassic. Vardar subducted by the end of Jurassic, causing the Bihor-Getic-Serbo-Macedonian microcontinent to collide with the internal Dinaric-Western Carpathian margin. An external Penninic-Vahic ocean tract began opening in the Early Jurassic, separating the Austroalpine-Western Carpathian microcontinent (and its fauna) from the European shelf. Further east, the Severin-Ceahlau-Magura also began opening in the Early Jurassic, but final separation of the Bihor-Getic ribbon (and its fauna) from the European shelf did not take place until the late Middle Jurassic. The Alcapa and the Tisza-Dacia were bending during the Albian-Maastrichtian. The two oroclinal bends were finally opposed and pushed into the gates of the Carpathian embayment during the Palaeogene and Neogene. At that time, the main NS shortening in distant Alpine and Hellenic sectors was linked by a broader right-lateral shear zone along the former Vardar suture. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -