Geochronological and structural investigations of the Northern Pelagonian crystalline zone. Constraints from K/Ar and zircon and apatite fission track dating

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Published: Jan 1, 2001
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.16947
Keywords:
Central Pelagonian Zone West Pelagonian Zone Hercynian orogeny Alpine orogeny Eohellenic nappe stacking K/Ar chronology fission track dating
T. MOST
Institute of Geology, University Tübingen
W. FRISCH
Institute of Geology, University Tübingen
I. DUNKL
Institute of Geology, University Tübingen
B. KADOSA
Institute of Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
B. BOEV
Faculty of Mining and Geochemistry, University Skopje
A. AVGERINAS
Institute of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
A. KILIAS
Institute of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Abstract

The northern part of the Pelagonian Zone experienced a polyphase deformation and metamorphism. Four groups of K/Ar biotite and white mica ages document (I) Hercynian emplacement of plutonic rocks, (II) Eohellenic nappe stacking associated with penetrative deformation / recrystallisation, (III) a Paleocene event in the Mesocoic cover rocks in Greece and (IV) a westward movement of West Pelagonian nappes during Eocene to Oligocene time. First zircon/apatite fission track ages clustering around 70 Ma and 45 to 30 Ma.

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