Pelso Plate

Pelso and Tisza units, the Zágráb-Hornád line is the former plate margin between them

Pelso Plate or Pelsonia Terrane is a small tectonic unit. It is situated in the Pannonian Basin in Europe. The Carpathian Mountains and the basin surrounded by them were formed from the Cretaceous until the Miocene in the collision of continental Europe with smaller continental fragments of , Tisza, Pelso and .^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The Zagreb-Hernád line is the former plate margin between the Pelso of African origin and the Tisza Plate of Eurasian origin.

The Pelso block is sometimes considered as southern portion of the ALCAPA and compared with internal zone of Western Carpathian Mts. which is called .^[5] The typical feature of this zone is Dinaric - Apulian facies of Triassic rocks, while the whole Alcapa is in some papers considered as part of the Apulian plate.^[6] The Pelso sensu stricto is therefore composed of , and superunits, that evolved south of the and the superimposed Cenozoic sedimentary cover.

References[]

^ BADA, G. & HORVÁTH, F. 2001b: On the structure and tectonic evolution of the Pannonian basin and surrounding orogens. – Acta Geologica Hungarica 44, pp. 301–327
^ Bogdan M. Popescu (1994). Hydrocarbons of Eastern Central Europe: habitat, exploration and production history. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-55014-3.
^ Journal of Geophysical Research. 111. William Byrd Press for Johns Hopkins Press. 2006.
^ Tom McCann (2008). The Geology of Central Europe. Geological Society of London. p. 1210. ISBN 978-1-86239-265-6.
^ Kováč, M., Plašianka, D., 2002, Geological structure of the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian junction and neighbouring slopes of the Bohemian Massif. Comenius University, Bratislava, 88 pp.
^ "GOLONKA, J. Glossary of plate tectonic and paleogeographic terms" (PDF). 2011-02-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-29.

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[1] BADA, G. & HORVÁTH, F. 2001b: On the structure and tectonic evolution of the Pannonian basin and surrounding orogens. – Acta Geologica Hungarica 44, pp. 301–327

[2] Bogdan M. Popescu (1994). Hydrocarbons of Eastern Central Europe: habitat, exploration and production history. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-55014-3.

[3] Journal of Geophysical Research. 111. William Byrd Press for Johns Hopkins Press. 2006.

[4] Tom McCann (2008). The Geology of Central Europe. Geological Society of London. p. 1210. ISBN 978-1-86239-265-6.

[5] Kováč, M., Plašianka, D., 2002, Geological structure of the Alpine-Carpathian-Pannonian junction and neighbouring slopes of the Bohemian Massif. Comenius University, Bratislava, 88 pp.

[6] "GOLONKA, J. Glossary of plate tectonic and paleogeographic terms" (PDF). 2011-02-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-29.

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