Avalonian and Baltican terranes in the Moesian Platform (southern Europe, Romania, and Bulgaria) in the context of Caledonian terranes along the southwestern margin of the East European craton

Heavy minerals and exotic pebbles from the Eocene flysch deposits of the Magura Nappe (Outer Western Carpathians, eastern Slovakia): their composition and implications on the provenance

“…The USU, MPK, and West Moesia represent a piece of Baltica-derived crust (Oczlon et al, 2007), notwithstanding that the Małopolska Terrane partially differs from the USU (Malinowski et al, 2005). This may indicate Late Neoproterozoic modification of the USU crust or accretion of exotic crust, now underlying the USU, to the southern margin of Baltica (Oczlon et al, 2007). The crystalline basement of the MPK is unknown, while the USU constitutes the northern part of the Brunovistulicum, the Precambrian basement of which includes granitoids and amphibolite facies metamorphic rocks (e.g., Franke et al, 1995).…”

“…The crystalline basement of the MPK is unknown, while the USU constitutes the northern part of the Brunovistulicum, the Precambrian basement of which includes granitoids and amphibolite facies metamorphic rocks (e.g., Franke et al, 1995). On the other hand, the Rzeszotary Terrane cropping out southwards of Krakow (Poland), entrained between the southern USU and MPK, may represent a displaced fragment of East Avalonian crust and not form the basement to any of those (Oczlon et al, 2007). The same type of crust is cropping out in Dobrogea.…”

Remarks on the correlation of tectonic blocks in the foreland of the East European Craton in Poland with those in Ukraine

“…In tec tonic maps, blocks (ter ranes) of Gondwanan or i gin are fre quently dis tin guished in the area lo cated west of the T-T line, how ever, their ex tent is dif fer ently out lined (e.g., Pharoah, 1999;Pharoah et al, 2006;Nawrocki and Poprawa, 2006;Olczon, 2006;Olczon et al, 2007;¯elaŸniewicz et al, 2009). This is due to differ ent ap proaches to the is sue of the course of the SW boundary of the craton, re fer ring to the Pa leo zoic sec tions in the craton and its fore land (Kraus, 1977;Mizerski, 1988Mizerski, , 1995Sikorska, 2005, 2006;Dadlez, 2006;Konon, 2008) and to the tec tonic evo lu tion of both ar eas (Stupka, 1995;Stupka, 2005, 2007;Nawrocki and Poprawa, 2006;Karnkowski, 2008;Narkiewicz and Dadlez, 2008;elaŸniewicz, 2008;¯elaŸniewicz and Aleksandrowski, 2008;elaŸniewicz et al, 2011;Mizerski et al, 2012Mizerski et al, , 2014.…”

“…Re cently, a num ber of re gional con tri bu tions have been pub lished con cern ing the cor re la tion be tween tec tonic blocks in the fore land of the East Eu ro pean Craton in Po land and Ukraine (Pharoah, 1999;Pharoah et al, 2006;Ziegler and Dézes, 2006;Olczon et al, 2007;Bu³a et al, 2008;Bu³a and Habryn, 2011;Jachowicz-Zdanowska, 2011;¯elaŸniewicz et al, 2011). Ac cord ing to the in ter pre ta tions of Bu³a et al (2008) and Bu³a and Habryn (2011), two nar row crustal blocks oc cur in the south west ern fore land of the East Eu ro pean Craton (Fig.…”

“…The view of the re la tion ship be tween both the sug gested blocks and the East Eu ro pean Craton within the area of Po land is also main tained in the pa pers by, among oth ers, Olczon (2006) and Olczon et al (2007), in which the whole Ma³opolska re gion and Brunovistulicum are con sid ered as el e ments orig inat ing from the Baltica con ti nent, al though sep a rated from it by the Gondwanan terrane ex tend ing along the en tire edge of the East Eu ro pean Craton in Po land, accreted to in Or do vi cian and Si lu rian times. How ever, the Pol ish parts of both blocks do not con tinue into West Ukraine in these pa pers.…”