Trans-border (east Serbia/west Bulgaria) correlation of the morpho-tectonic structures

Platon Tchoumatchenco,Nenad Malesevic,Dragoman Rabrenovic,Vladan Radulovic,Barbara Radulovic

doi:10.2298/gabp1172021t

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https://doi.org/10.2298/gabp1172021t

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Abstract

In the Bulgarian and Serbian geological literatures, many maps, both geological and tectonic, exist showing the structures, but limiting them nationally. There are very few publications correlating the structures from both sides of the border and they preserve the local Bulgarian or Serbian names. Our aim is to create a base for the unification of the names defining the major morpho-tectonic structures: the Moesian Platform, the Miroc - Fore-Balkan Unit, the Porec-Stara Planina Unit, the Krayna Unit, the Getic - Srednogorie Unit, the Supra Getic - Kraishtide Zone, the Serbo-Macedonian - Thracian Massif and the Vardar Zone, showing their synonyms from the Bulgarian and Serbian sides.

Highlights

A collective of Serbian and Bulgarian geologists started a trans-border correlation of the Jurassic sediments in 2005 as an unofficial collaboration, which later extended into an official project
The first steps were made by correlating the Jurassic sediments from southeast Serbia and southwest Bulgaria (TCHOUMATCHENCO et al, 2006a, b, 2008)
The lithostratigraphic units from both sides of the state border were compared in TCHOUMATCHENCO et al (2006b, 2008) with the aim of demonstrating their positions in the sections and the possibilities of their correlation

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A collective of Serbian and Bulgarian geologists started a trans-border correlation of the Jurassic sediments in 2005 as an unofficial collaboration, which later extended into an official project.

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