Abstract
High inconsistency and incoherence in the stratigraphy of the Slovenian upper Paleogene and lower Miocene have remained unsolved in the past 150 years. To solve the problem, we tried to rigorously conduct the authentic Galilei’s scientific method. Steps of logical and empirical verification confirmed the existence of the posited B1 Tertiary tectonostratigraphic unit, and a general chronostratigraphic model of new positional relationships of lithologic units resulted from rather good biochronostratigraphic resolution achieved by nannoplankton and planktonic foraminifera biostratigraphy. The application of principles of newly developed fields in Science helped us to avoid errors in transmission of messages (to reduce noise) from the source (rock) to the concept formation, which had been done previously. This in tum has strongly reduced inconsistency and incoherence (high information entropy = uncertainty). The released amount of information enabled us to answer also questions that reached beyond the original difficulty, e.g.: is the tectonostratigraphic structure of eastern Slovenia a manifestation of plate tectonics processes, and of which ones, are theories of Continental escape in the Alps and associated dissection and offset of the formerly uniform Slovenian-Hungarian Paleogene basin tenable or not, are then there in the BI stratigraphic equivalents of the Hungarian Paleogene basin formations, where are the important Eocene / Oligocene, Paleogene / Neogene, Rupelian / Chattian and Kiscellian / Egerian boundaries in Slovenia, and is there a continuation of the BI in Croatia and in the Mid-Hungarian tectonic zone?
Highlights
In solving the stratigraphic inconsistency and incoherence of upper Paleogene and lower Miocene beds of eastern Slovenia, we strove to satisfy the starting-point criteria of scientific research
One of the postulates concerns the existence between the Donat and Celje tectonic zones of a Tertiary tectonostratigraphic unit marked TTU B1 by us that differs in the stratigraphic structure from the northerly extending TTU A2 unit and the southerly TTU B2 unit (Jelen et al, 1992, 1993)
For the time equivalent of the Kiscell Clay the Smrekovec volcaniclastic sequence was proposed by us. (6) Important chronostratigraphic boundaries were detected: the Eocene / Oligocene, Kiscellian / Egerian and Paleogene / Neogene (= Oligocene / Miocene) boundaries that occupy in the stratigraphic equivalents the same position as in the Hungarian Paleogene basin
Summary
In solving the stratigraphic inconsistency and incoherence of upper Paleogene and lower Miocene beds of eastern Slovenia (fig. 1, 2), we strove to satisfy the starting-point criteria of scientific research. 1, 2), we strove to satisfy the starting-point criteria of scientific research. Two among these criteria are the explanatory power of results and contributiveness of new postulates. One of the postulates concerns the existence between the Donat and Celje tectonic zones of a Tertiary tectonostratigraphic unit marked TTU B1 by us that differs in the stratigraphic structure from the northerly extending TTU A2 unit and the southerly TTU B2 unit A Lega raziskovanega obmo~ja v Panonskem bazenu. B Geolo{ka skica raziskovanega obmo~ja in sosednjih obmo~ij prikazuje poloaj modeliranih prerezov ~ez predlagani stratigrafski model.
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