Main Objectives

• Document and discuss the field geology of Epirus, including prominent structural geological features, and the thickness and sedimentology of Late Eocene to Pliocene syn-orogenic strata.
• Construct regional structural transects in the southern external Dinarides (Montenegro) and the northern external Hellenides (Greece) to better understand the style and amount of shortening, changes across transverse zones, and their relationship to inherited Mesozoic structures.
• Constrain the burial and unroofing history of the external Dinarides and Hellenides using vitrinite reflectance and detrital apatite (U-Th)/He and fission track analysis.
• Study the onset and duration of syn-orogenic deposition between Slovenia and northwestern Greece based on newly acquired biostratigraphic data.
• Analyse the carbonate-flysch transition at selected locations to give constraints on changes of depositional setting, trends in the palaeo-water depth, and the seal potential of basal flysch sediments.
• Conduct multi-proxy provenance analysis on selected samples from Slovenia to Albania to define potential source regions and highlight areas of orogenic activity.

Project length: 24 months from September 2018.

Contact(s): Balazs Toro

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