Abstract
Varied west-transported and far-traveled Jurassic melanges in southwestern Serbia represent a key to understand the geodynamic history and to solve paleogeographic questions and reconstructions in the Triassic–Jurassic passive and active margin arrangement of the Inner Dinarides. Of special interest are the carbonate-clastic radiolaritic melange areas in the Zlatar Mountain below the Dinaridic Ophiolite nappe. The present study reports from a Middle Jurassic sedimentary melange in the area of Vodena Poljana. Carbonate components and blocks of the mass-flow deposits consist exclusively of a reworked Middle/Late Anisian to Early Jurassic distal shelf succession. Ophiolite components from the Dinaridic Ophiolite nappe stack are missing in the spectrum. The underlying series of the Zlatar Melange belong to Early/Middle Anisian shallow-water carbonates and to Late Anisian to Middle Jurassic deep-water sedimentary rocks of the Hallstatt facies zone. South of Vodena Poljana in the overlying ophiolitic melange occur Late Triassic radiolaritic components from the sedimentary cover of the Late Triassic ocean floor, beside ophiolite clasts and limestone components from the continental slope. A comparison with preserved Hallstatt Limestone successions and Jurassic melange complexes from the Eastern Alps, Western Carpathians, and Albanides strengthen the interpretation of a provenance of the Zlatar melange from the distal passive margin facing the Neotethys Ocean to the east. An autochthonous Dinaridic Ocean west of the Drina-Ivanjica Unit cannot be confirmed.
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