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ZAGORCHEV, IVAN S. (1998) Pre-Priabonian Palaeogene formations in southwestern Bulgaria and northern Greece: stratigraphy and tectonic implications. Geological Magazine, 135 (1) 101-119 doi:10.1017/s0016756897008285

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TitlePre-Priabonian Palaeogene formations in southwestern Bulgaria and northern Greece: stratigraphy and tectonic implications
JournalGeological Magazine
AuthorsZAGORCHEV, IVAN S.Author
Year1998 (January)Volume135
Issue1
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP)
DOIdoi:10.1017/s0016756897008285Search in ResearchGate
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Full ReferenceZAGORCHEV, IVAN S. (1998) Pre-Priabonian Palaeogene formations in southwestern Bulgaria and northern Greece: stratigraphy and tectonic implications. Geological Magazine, 135 (1) 101-119 doi:10.1017/s0016756897008285
Plain TextZAGORCHEV, IVAN S. (1998) Pre-Priabonian Palaeogene formations in southwestern Bulgaria and northern Greece: stratigraphy and tectonic implications. Geological Magazine, 135 (1) 101-119 doi:10.1017/s0016756897008285
In(1998, January) Geological Magazine Vol. 135 (1) Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Abstract/NotesThe Paril Formation (South Pirin and Slavyanka Mountains,

southwestern Bulgaria) and the

Prodromos Formation (Orvilos and Menikion Mountains, northern

Greece) consist of breccia and olistostrome

built up predominantly of marble fragments from the Precambrian

Dobrostan Marble Formation

(Bulgaria) and its equivalent Bos-Dag Marble Formation (Greece).

The breccia and olistostrome are

interbedded with thin layers of calcarenites (with occasional

marble pebbles), siltstones, sandstones and

limestones. The Paril and Prodromos formations unconformably

cover the Precambrian marbles, and are

themselves covered unconformably by Miocene and Pliocene

sediments (Nevrokop Formation). The rocks

of the Paril Formation are intruded by the Palaeogene (Late

Eocene–Early Oligocene) Teshovo granitoid

pluton, and are deformed and preserved in the two limbs of a

Palaeogene anticline cored by the Teshovo pluton

(Teshovo anticline). The Palaeocene–Middle Eocene age of

the formations is based on these contact

relations, and on occasional finds of Tertiary pollen, as well

as on correlations with similar formations of the

Laki (Kroumovgrad) Group throughout the Rhodope region.The presence of Palaeogene sediments within the pre-Palaeogene

Pirin–Pangaion structural zone invalidates

the concept of a ‘Rhodope metamorphic core

complex’ that supposedly has undergone Palaeogene

amphibolite-facies regional metamorphism, and afterwards has

been exhumed by rapid crustal extension in

Late Oligocene–Miocene times along a regional detachment

surface. Other Palaeogene formations of pre-Priabonian

(Middle Eocene and/or Bartonian) or earliest Priabonian age

occur at the base of the Palaeogene

sections in the Mesta graben complex (Dobrinishka Formation)

and the Padesh basin (Souhostrel and

Komatinitsa formations). The deposition of coarse continental

sediments grading into marine formations

(Laki or Kroumovgrad Group) in the Rhodope region at the

beginning of the Palaeogene Period marks the

first intense fragmentation of the mid- to late Cretaceous

orogen, in particular, of the thickened body of the

Morava-Rhodope structural zone situated to the south of the

Srednogorie zone. The Srednogorie zone itself

was folded and uplifted in Late Cretaceous time, thus dividing

Palaeocene–Middle Eocene flysch of the

Louda Kamchiya trough to the north, from the newly formed East

Rhodope–West Thrace depression to the south.


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