Abstract
The obduction of an ophiolite sheet onto the eastern Pelagonian carbonate platform complex of the Hellenides began during the Late Bathonian and ended with the final emplacement of the ophiolite during Valanginian time. The early stages of obduction caused subaerial exposure of the platform, recorded by an unconformity of Callovian age, which is marked by laterites overlying folded and faulted, karstic substrates. The laterites have distinct ophiolitic geochemical signatures, indicating that emergent ophiolite had been undergoing lateritic weathering. This unconformity coincides with widespread western Tethyan, Callovian gaps, indicating that the obduction in the Hellenides was probably related to far-reaching plate tectonic processes. Resumed gravitational pull and rollback of the subducted, oceanic leading edge of the temporarily exposed ophiolite. Platform drowning continued into Tithonian–Valanginian time, documented initially by reefal carbonates and then by below-CCD, carbonate-free radiolarian cherts and shales. Subsequently, siliciclastic turbidites, which apparently originated from uplifted Variscan basement, were deposited together with and over the radiolarite as the ophiolite nappe sheet advanced. The nappe substrate underwent tectonic deformations of varying intensity, while polymictic mélange and syntectonic sedimentary debris accreted beneath the ophiolite and at the nappe front. The provenience of the ophiolite nappe complexes of northern Evvoia most probably has to be looked for in the Vardar ocean.
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The institutes affiliated with the authors are thanked for providing support and facilities: Department of Earth Sciences, UCL, London, Office of the Vice-Provost (Research); Departamento de Geología (Paleontología), Universidad de Zaragoza; Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology, University of Athens; Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London; Bayerische Staatssammlung für Palaeontologie und Geologie Munich; for preparatory work, personal thanks are given, Elisabeth von Berg and Helmuth Voecks. This paper was partly supported by the research projects: Research project Nr. CGL 2011-23947 (MICINN) from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; EU Project Nr. 510508-LLP-1-2010-GR-COMENIUS-CMP: GEOschools (EACEA-LLP); the international ERASMUS interchange program (Univ. Athens and Zaragoza); the Regional Government of Aragón (Group DGA: E-17). Prof. Peter O. Baumgartner and his dissertation students Yanik Gingins and Olivier Schauner, Geology Department, University of Lausanne, are gratefully acknowledged for cooperation during fieldwork (Autumn 2004) which led to radiolarian determinations and to basalt analyses. Furthermore, acknowledgement is given to Matthias Born, Bochum, Germany, Prof. Franz Söllner, Earth Sciences, LMU Munich, and likewise to many helpful village people in northern Evvoia, Greece. Prof. S. M. Schmid is thanked for his critical and constructive review of the original manuscript, and an anonymous reader is acknowledged for a number of helpful criticisms.
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Scherreiks, R., Meléndez, G., BouDagher-Fadel, M. et al. Stratigraphy and tectonics of a time-transgressive ophiolite obduction onto the eastern margin of the Pelagonian platform from Late Bathonian until Valanginian time, exemplified in northern Evvoia, Greece. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 103, 2191–2216 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1036-3
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