Geophysical Overview on Contact between the African and Eurasian Plates Transverse Folded Belt of the Albanides

Abstract

The article presents an attempt to generalize the integrated geophysical data: Gravity, Magnetic, Paleomagnetic, Geothermal, Seismological and Remote Sensing images of zone, where it crosses the deep transversal fracture Shkoder – Peje. Analyses of the geophysical data are based on regional geological setting data of Shkoder-Peje sector of Mediterranean Alpine Folded Belt, which presents the existence of important disjunctive deep tectonics element. Shkoder-Peje tranversal fracture represent the contact between the African and Eauasian plates contact transverse territory of folded belt of the Albanides. The geological mapping at the scale 1:25.000 up to regional ones at the scale 1:200.000, does not have traced at the Earth’s surface the outcrop of this thrust. Consequently, have brought about the different concepts on it, from “scharung” (1901) to “transform transversal fault” (1970-2012), and to silence about its existence, even to denial of its presence. These changes in the course of a century, not just in terms of use, were related to different geological schools over the geological setting of the Albanides. The integrated geophysical information has cast light on the depth of the area, where it crosses the transverse Shkoder-Peje that represent a deep transverse vertical fracture, which affects the Moho Discontinuity.