Stratigraphy and Tectonic Relationships Along the Senj - Ogulin Profile (Velika Kapela Mt., Croatia)

Abstract

Twelve lithostratigraphic units, representing a 5 km thick succession,have been determined from the Senj -Ogulin profile through theVelika Kapela Mt. This 45 km long sequence lies approximately normalto the Dinaric strike. Carbonate deposits ranging from the MiddleLiassic to the Albian include laterally variable environments duringthe Kimmeridgian and Lower Tithonian. The deposits were deformedby compressive tectonics during the Tertiary tectonic cycle, and wereconsequently reshaped by weaker Neotectonic transpression. Thereforestructures with the N-S strike, which are different to the commonDinaric strike (NW-SE), are interpreted as a consequence of syngenetic bending during the Tertiary cycle, rather than rotation during theNeotectonic cycle.

Keywords

• Shallow-water carbonates
• Compressive Tertiary tectonics
• Transpressive Neotectonics
• Structures
• Jurassic
• Lower Cretaceous
• Dinarides
• Velika Kapela Mt.
• Croatia