Workshop DWO 17
"TERTIARY TECTONICS OF SE EUROPE: EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE AND RIFTING OR DETACHMENT TECTONICS"

DWO 17
TERTIARY TECTONICS OF SE EUROPE: EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE AND RIFTING OR DETACHMENT TECTONICS
Date: to be defined, 8 hours - Place: Florence
Convener: I. Zagorchev (Bulgaria)
The workshop will focus on problems of general geologic interest relative to Cenozoic stratigraphy, igneous activity, tectonics, paleogeography and geodynamics. It is closely linked to two field trips (B26 and P36) and TRANSMED Transect III. The topics to be discussed are closely related to the extensional collapse of orogens, especially to rifting and detachment tectonics. Problems of seismic and geotechnical hazard will be also raised.
Enrollment (min/max): 10-50 - Fee: free of charge

Marginal, island-arc and back-arc basins marked in Late Cretaceous times he final stages of Tethyan closure on the Balkans. Compression events ccurred in latest Cretaceous, Mid Eocene, and latest Oligocene - earliest Miocene times. Two principal types of orogens are outlined: (i) orogens (Dinarides-Albanides-Hellenides; Vardarides) issued from ormer Tethyan oceanic and marginal basins (subduction-related imbrication of oceanic crust with elements of the continental slope and marginal arcs),and (ii) orogens (Srednogorie, Balkanides) issued from peri-Tethyan basins and epicontinental  island arcs, rifts, and flysch and molasse troughs.Extensional collapse in former oceanic domains inherited former trends and vergencies. Throughout Late Cretaceous to Palaeogene and Neogene times,a gradual replacement of marginal flysch basins with island arcs, and further on, with marine and continental molasse basins occurred. Neotectonics was controlled by deep-seated processes (formerly subducted lithospheric slabs).Extensional collapse in orogens issued from peri-Tethyan basins had mostly a local significance. Foreland flysch basins were replaced by molasses. Intra-orogenic grabens formed at the neotectonic stage. Most interesting processes occurred in the area of the "plateau" (Morava-Rhodope) situated between the major orogens, and characterized by a thickened continental crust. Shallow marine basins ingressed locally in Late Cretaceous and Palaeogene times. Collapse of the thickened crust triggered in Late Eocene - Early Oligocene times melting at different depths, with magma mixing and extensive volcanism.