Abstract
Most of the Baikalian and pre-Baikalian elements preserved in the Carpathians and the Balkans originated in a large Baikalian ocean basin within the European mobile belt that divided the East European from the Gondwana continent. The Baikalian ocean bordered the East European continent and copied the evolutionary trend of its marginal elements. As compared to the other, Perigondwanian part of the mobile belt, this ocean closed considerably later, towards the end of the Cambrian and the beginning of the Ordovician. Further differences are: lack of any traces of Baikalian orogeny in the northern part of the mobile belt and later opening of new basins related to the next evolutional stage - not earlier than in the middle of the Ordovician. Possible continuations of the Baikalian basin to the west and east are also discussed.
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