Sedimentation, Tectonics, and Paleogeography of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Region
Each of the following pages is centered on the Mediterranean, beginning during the Triassic and continuing through the Cenozoic. For general views of earlier geologic history, see the series on the North Atlantic region. Two maps are shown on each page; the top map shows the unlabled paleogeography and the second map labels the tectonic and paleogeographic elements. Many tectonic elements, especially the continental blocks and microcontinents, are known by more than one name. The scheme used here uses common names, especially names with modern, familiar, descriptive terms.
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The general plate data are from Scotese, C. R., 1998. Quicktime Computer Animations, PALEOMAP Project, Department of Geology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.. The paleogeographic, sedimentologic, and tectonic data are compiled from many sources but are especially influenced by Ziegler, 1988, Evolution of the Arctic-North Atlantic and the western Tethys, AAPG Memoir 43; Geary, 198; and Sengor and Natal'in (1996, in The Tectonic Evolution of Asia, ed. by Yin and Harrison, Cambridge University Press).
Late Triassic
Early Jurassic
Middle Jurassic
Early Cretaceous
Middle Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary
Eocene
Oligocene-Early Miocene
Late Miocene
