Reinterpretation of some earlier published data on pelagic beds in Lika, Dalmatia, western Bosnia, eastern Hercegovina and Monte-negro confirms the existence of a pelagic, labile Interplatform Belt ...(Epiadriaticum) in the frame of the Outer Dinarides.
The study focuses on northwestern Croatia which, including theŽumberak (Žumberačka gora), Medvednica (Zagrebačka Gora),Kalnik, Ivan¹èica, and Ravna Gora mountains, make a cross area ofthe Slovenian ...ÒSava FoldsÓ, Southern Alps, Mid-TransdanubianZone, Tisia, and the Inner Dinarides. This is a complex structuralregion and cannot be attributed merely to one of the units. Therefore,a geotectonic interpretation is proposed which respects the diversificationand multiple superposition of basinal and platform elements.This concept allows linkage of the Slovenian Trough with the BosnianZone and its southeastern prolongation as a major coherent tectonicunit overlain by different nappe elements. The possible linkagewith the Budva Zone beneath the carbonate nappe is also discussed.
The faults confining Palaeozoic inliers surrounded by Mesozoic rocks, show that their relation is not a consequence of folding but of neotectonic uplift causing a rather uneven relief of the ...Palaeozoic units underlying the carbonate Mesozoic. The predominance of tectonic contacts indicates that similar relations exist even between the Triassic and the confined Jurassic outcrops exhibiting inverse and, consequently, allochthonous relations. The allochthony is also confirmed by karst relief within some Triassic dolomites related to the unexpected ground water flow between the swallow holes (ponors) and karst springs. There are also indications of inverse relations between the Triassic volcanics and Palaeozoic clastics. However, in the surrounding area a normal superposition between the Triassic and Jurassic is also noticed. Consequently the Triassic and Jurassic of the Fuzine-Lokve area and of its environs may belong to two megatectonic units. Tectogenesis is explained by continental subduction of the Adriaticum under the Dinaricum.
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