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    New paleomagnetic results from the Inner Dinarides, SW Serbia
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    As a result of the paleomagnetic co-operation between Hungarian and Serbian specialists in the last decades a paleomagnetic paper was published about the Fruska Gora (Lesic et al., 2007) and an other one about the magnetic fabrics of the intrusive and extrusive magmatic rocks of the Kopaonik area (Lesic et al., 2013). During more recent years several overstep sequences were tested from the Western Vardar zone. The aim of our present study was to find out if the units belonging to the Inner Dinarides rotated in the same sense as the overstep sequences or different rotations occurred. For that reason we sampled 12 localities within the research area. Five of which represent Late Cretaceous sediments in the area of Tara Mt., while the others geographically distributed Triassic and Jurassic succession. The sampled localities belong to different thrust sheets.
    We report our preliminary results from 14 sites sampled in sedimentary rocks from Transylvanian Basin. In the northwestern part of the Basin (Cluj-Jibou area) we sampled 12 sites in Senonian and Tertiary rocks. The other two sites are from the Eocene sandstones from the southeastern corner of the basin (Brasov area). The remanent magnetization of the sampled sites has been studied using thermal and AF demagnetization. We obtained good paleomagnetic results from 5 sites in Cluj-Jibou area and 1 site in Brasov area. The new results show that the large clockwise rotations identified by previous paleomagnetic studies is post-Eocene. This rotation had affected the entire basin. The result from the Pglia tuff (NN5 biozone) shows at least 23° of clockwise rotation post middle Badenian.
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