Field Trips

Contact person:
Bojan Kostić (bojan.kostic@rgt.bg.ac.rs)

Leaders:
Bojan Kostić, ???

Duration:
1 day

Departure / final point:
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Price:
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Participants:
Minimum 16, maximum 36

Fruška Gora is an inselberg within the southern Pannonian Basin, surrounded and partially covered by Miocene sediments. It forms an east–west-trending horst bounded by two major regional normal faults to the north and south.

This one-day field trip will start from the conference venue and will include several key outcrops that illustrate the complex geological evolution of this area. Participants will examine multiple sequences of Vardar Zone ophiolites, including Serbia’s only known occurrence of blueschists, as well as exposures of serpentinites, pillow lavas, and ophiolitic mélange.

In addition, we will visit Upper Cretaceous flysch successions, which in the central part of Fruška Gora are locally intruded by Oligocene magmatic rocks (latites with a K–Ar age of 35 ± 5 Ma; Knežević et al., 1991). Finally, the excursion will highlight the onset of a new sedimentary cycle in the Miocene, represented by lacustrine deposits that indicate sedimentation in separate basins along the northern and southern flanks of Fruška Gora.