OPHIOLITE-BEARING VERMOSHI FLYSCH (ALBANIAN ALPS, NORTHERN ALBANIA): ELEMENTS FOR ITS CORRELATION IN THE FRAME OF DINARIC-HELLENIC BELT

摘要: The tectonic setting of the Albanian Alps, Northern Albania, is characterized by a thick pile units whose uppermost structural level represented Vermoshi Unit, cropping out just few km north Shkoder-Pec Line. This unit includes single formation, Flysch, turbidite deposits consisting arenites, shales and marls. Flysch has been sampled for paleontological datings petrographical analyses arenite beds along five selected well exposed sections in Valley. nannoplancton forams associations detected analyzed samples point to Barremian age, whereas modal analysis arenites indicates that all have mixed/hybrid silicilastic- carbonate composition, ranging from quartz-rich sublitharenites quartz-poor litharenites. However, main feature ot these occurrence fragments derived an ophiolite sequence. data suggest can be regarded as supplied two different source areas, margins basin where was deposited. Whereas one border Adria continental margin, opposite advancing nappe, constituted ophiolites their sedimentary cover. In this frame, southernmost part Vranduk Serbia Croatia. type deposits, widespread Dinaric-Hellenic belt, considered marker Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous phases related closure oceanic area present between Eurasia plates.