The Vardar-Tethyan mega-suture between the Eurasian and Adria (Gondwana) margins comprises remnants of oceanic lithosphere of Neotethys and distal parts of the adjacent continental margins including unconformable Late Cretaceous sedimentary cover and Cenozoic igneous rocks of post-obduction age. This study provides kinematic constraints for displacements and rotations affecting the Serbian part of the West Vardar and Jadar-Kopaonik units after the closure of the Neotethyan (= Sava) Ocean. The targets of the paleomagnetic research were Late Cretaceous sediments representing an overstep sequence and a wide variety of Oligocene-Earliest Miocene igneous rocks. The studied 48 sampling points were distributed within two segments of a narrow and 160 km long strip of the Western Vardar zone, namely the wider Rudnik Mts. area to the north and the Kopaonik Mts. area to the south. The results of standard laboratory processing and statistical evaluation suggest that both studied segments of the Western Vardar zone were affected by 30°–46° clockwise vertical-axis rotation which must have taken place after 20 Ma. It is proposed that clockwise vertical-axis rotation documented in the present study on one hand, and the previously documented counterclockwise vertical-axis rotation of Adria, on the other hand are related to large scale extension in the southern Pannonian basin.

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塞尔维亚西瓦尔达地区的顺时针垂直轴旋转：构造意义

欧亚大陆与阿德里亚（冈瓦纳）边缘之间的Vardar-Tethyan大型缝合线包括新特提斯的海洋岩石圈和邻近大陆边缘的远端部分的残余物，包括不整合的晚白垩纪沉积覆盖层和绑架后时代的新生代火成岩。这项研究提供了运动约束，影响了新特提斯洋（萨瓦）大洋封闭后西瓦尔达河和塞尔维亚贾达尔-科帕奥尼克克单位的塞尔维亚部分的位移和旋转。古磁研究的目标是晚白垩纪沉积物，代表了一个超序序列和各种各样的渐新世最早的中新世火成岩。所研究的48个采样点分布在西瓦尔达地区的一条狭窄且长160公里的条带的两段中，即较宽的Rudnik山。北部地区和科帕奥尼克山。南部地区。标准实验室处理和统计评估的结果表明，西部瓦尔达地区的两个研究部分都受到了20Ma之后必须发生的30°–46°顺时针垂直轴旋转的影响。有人提出，一方面是本研究中记录的顺时针垂直轴旋转，另一方面是先前记录的阿德里亚的逆时针垂直轴旋转，这与潘诺尼亚盆地南部的大规模扩张有关。