THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF NEOGENE EVENTS IN THE TIRANA DEPRESSION ...

• Main Authors: GELATI, ROMANO, DIAMANTI, FOTOQ, PRENCE, JOVAN, CANE, HECTOR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 1997
• Subjects: Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/5283; http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/5283

The Tirana Depression is located in the eastern and inner part of the Periadriatic Depression.It forms an elongated NW-SE oriented structural element,60 km in length, located between the front of west -verging Dinaric structures and the east-verging Paper Rova anticline-Preze homocline alignment, which acted as a back-thrust till post-Pliocene age. Some significant stratigraphic sections were examinated mainly south of Tirana on the eastern and western limbs of a wide syncline.Physical and micropaleontological data, including marker levels,unconformities and planktonic foraminifera content were used to correlate the sections. Two Lithothamnium levels, uppermost Langhian and Serravallian, were esed markers. The generalized occurence of planktonic Foraminifera- bearing mudstones,uppermost Serravallian-Tortonian in age,is interpreted as significant.The Langhian and Serravallian uncoformities, recognizable at the base of the Lithothamnium limestone levels,are thought to be of regional importance. Continental and ... : Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 103, No 1 ...