ALPINE MAGMATIC-METALLOGENIC FORMATIONS OF THE NORTHWESTERN AND CENTRAL DINARIDES

Abstract

In the paper are presented basic geological, petrologieca1, geochemi-cal and mineral deposit data for five main magmatic-metallogenic formations of the northwestern and central Dinarides: (l)The Permo Triassic rifting related andesite-diorite formations; (2) The Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous accretionary (ophiolite) formations; (3) The Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene subduction related basalt-rhyohite formations; (4) The Paleogene collisional granite formations, and (5) The Oligo-cene-Neogene postsubduction andesite formations. All these magmatic-metallogenic formations originated in different geotectonic settings during the Alpine evolution of the Dinaridic parts of thc Tethys and the postorogenic evolution of the Paratethys and the Pannonian Basin, respectively.

Keywords

• magmatic-metallogenic formations
• geology
• petrology
• geochemistry
• metallogeny
• Dinarides