Post-collisional mantle delamination in the Dinarides implied from staircases of Oligo-Miocene uplifted marine terraces.

ABSTRACT: The Dinarides fold-thrust belt on the Balkan Peninsula resulted from convergence between the Adriatic and Eurasian plates since Mid-Jurassic times. Under the Dinarides, S-wave receiver functions, P-wave tomographic models, and shear-wave splitting data show anomalously thin lithosphere overlying a short down-flexed slab geometry. This geometry suggests a delamination of Adriatic lithosphere. Here, we link the evolution of this continental convergence system to hitherto unreported sets of extensively uplifted Oligocene-Miocene (28-17 Ma) marine terraces preserved at elevations of up to 600 m along the Dinaric coastal range. River incision on either side of the Mediterranean-Black Sea drainage divide is comparable to the amounts of terrace uplift. The preservation of the uplifted terraces im

SUBMITTER: Balling P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7846848 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature