Antić, Milorad and Peytcheva, Irena and von Quadt, Albrecht and Kounov, Alexandre and Trivić, Branislav and Serafimovski, Todor and Tasev, Goran and Gerdjikov, Ianko and Wetzel, Andreas (2016) Pre-Alpine evolution of a segment of the North-Gondwanan margin: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from the central Serbo-Macedonian Massif. Gondwana Research, 36. pp. 523-544. ISSN 1342-937X
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Abstract
The Serbo-Macedonian Massif (SMM) represents a composite crystalline belt within the Eastern European Alpine
orogen, outcropping from the Pannonian basin in the north, to the Aegean Sea in the south. The central parts of the massif (i.e. southeastern Serbia, southwestern Bulgaria, eastern Macedonia) consist of the medium- to high-grade Lower Complex, and the low-grade Vlasina Unit. New results of U–Pb LA-ICP-MS analyses, coupled with
geochemical analyses of Hf isotopes on magmatic and detrital zircons, and main and trace element concentrations in whole-rock samples suggest that the central SMM and the basement of the adjacent units (i.e. Eastern Veles series and Struma Unit) originated in the central parts of the northern margin of Gondwana. These data provided a basis for a revised tectonic model of the evolution of the SMM from the late Ediacaran to the Early Triassic.
The earliest magmatism in the Lower Complex, Vlasina Unit and the basement of Struma Unit is related to the
activity along the late Cadomian magmatic arc (562–522 Ma). Subsequent stage of early Palaeozoic igneous activity is associated with the reactivation of subduction below the Lower Complex and the Eastern Veles series during the Early Ordovician (490–478 Ma), emplacement of mafic dykes in the Lower Complex due to aborted rifting in the Middle Ordovician (472–456 Ma), and felsic within-plate magmatism in the early Silurian
(439 ± 2 Ma). The third magmatic stage is represented by Carboniferous late to post-collisional granites (328–
304 Ma). These granites intrude the gneisses of the Lower Complex, in which the youngest deformed igneous
rocks are of early Silurian age, thus constraining the high-strain deformation and peak metamorphism to the
Variscan orogeny. The Permian–Triassic (255–253 Ma) stage of late- to post-collisional and within-plate felsic
magmatism is related to the opening of the Mesozoic Tethys.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Natural sciences > Earth and related environmental sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Goran Tasev |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2016 09:11 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2016 09:11 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/16086 |
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