Displaced Jurassic foreslope and basin deposits of Dinaridic origin in Northeast Hungary

Abstract

The basement of the Pannonian Basin is made up of tectonostratigraphic terranes of varying origin. They gradually amalgamated to form the large Alcapa and Tisza-Dacia composite terranes that were juxtaposed during the Tertiary. In North Hungary, in the basement of the Tertiary volcanic complex of the Matra Mts and in the western part of the Bukk Mts, remnants of a Jurassic accretionary wedge were encountered. Ore exploration boreholes encountered several hundred-meter thick carbonate and siliceous shale-radiolarite successions in the basement of the Matra Mts (Darno Complex). Based on detailed studies of Core Recsk-109, the carbonate succession consists predominantly of grainstone with packstone-wackestone intercalations. Peloidal bioclastic grainstone is the most common texture type but sand-sized intraclasts and oncoid and ooid grains also occur locally. The most spectacular feature is the large amount of coarse to medium sand-sized fragments of calcified cyanobacteria ("Porostromata"). Platform-derived...