Geology of Serbia
The regional geology of Serbia describes the geologic structure and history inside the borders of Serbia.
- Pannonian Plain, occupying the northern part of the country (Vojvodinaprovince)
- Dinaric Alps occupy western part of Central Serbia, stretching in general northwest-southeast direction
- fractures.
- Serbian-Macedonian Massif is a belt stretching in north-south direction along the Great and South Morava valleys, into western North Macedonia and northern Greece (north of Chalkidiki peninsula).
- Carpatho-Balkan Arc covers Eastern Serbia, in the shape of an arc. Its northern part, Serbian Carpathians is an extension of Carpathian Range, and it joins the western parts of Balkan Mountains, whose main massif is in Bulgaria.
Tectonic units
Sava Zone
The Sava Zone (named after the river Sava) is an oceanic suture that strikes roughly NNW to SSE through Serbia and is mostly covered in the north by the sediments of the Pannonian Basin. Outcrops can be found in the Fruška Gora (Fruška mountains).[2] Here the unit is composed of blueschists and ophiolites. In the south outcrops of the Sava Zone occur in the Balkan and Rhodope Mountains. This includes the Senonian Flysch and the rocks cropping out in the Jastrebac Window.[2]
Jadar-Kopaonik thrust sheet
The Jadar-Kopaonik Thrust Sheet is a NW-SE striking unit in the southern footwall of the Sava Zone and the northern hangingwall of the Drina-Ivanjica Thrust Sheet.[2] Most of the outcrops are ophiolites from the Western Vardar ocean, but there are some windows into the underlying basement. The Jadar unit in western Serbia (Jadar Region) is the largest window into the underlying Adriatic units of the Jadar-Kopaonik Thrust Sheet. Two smaller windows crop out farther to the south. The Studenica unit lies in the west and the Kopaonik unit in the east of the thrust sheet.[6]
Supragetic
The Supragetic nappes form a N-S striking belt in eastern Serbia, where they crop out in the
Drina-Ivanjica thrust sheet
The Drina-Ivanjica thrust sheet forms a NNW to SSE striking thrust sheet through southwestern Serbia. It is composed of a Paleozoic basement and Mesozoic cover. On top of this lies the obducted Zlatibor ophiolite (Zlatibor Mountains), a remnant of the Western Vardar ocean.[2]
Seismic activity
Serbia is prone to moderate to strong seismic activity, especially in the central belts of Vardar Zone and Serbian Massif.
List of major earthquakes in the 20th and 21st centuries:[9][10]
- 1893. Svilajnac – 5,7 Richter scale
- 1921. Vitina– 5,7
- 1922. Lazarevac – 5,9
- 1927. Rudnik – 5,7
- 1980. Kopaonik – 5,7
- 1983. Kopaonik – 5,3
- 1998. Mionica – 5,7
- 2010. Kraljevo – 5,4
Modern history
The Serbian Geologic Society was established by a group of professors and students in Belgrade on 10 February 1891 under the leadership of Jovan Žujović.[11] The geologic survey was founded 29 December 1930.[12]
Economic geology
The economic geology of Serbia was reviewed by Melcher and Reichl in 2017.[13]
Serbia is the 18th largest producer of coal (7th in Europe) extracted from large deposits in
The iron ore deposits of Serbia are insignificant.[18][19] Iron and copper deposits were found at Suva Ruda and Suvo Rudište.[20]
The largest laterite nickel deposit in Europe is at Mokra Gora, with an estimated 1,000 million tons of ore.[21]
The
See also
References
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