STRATIGRAPHY AND CHALKY STRATA MOLLUSKS OF THE PENINSKA ZONE IN UKRAINIAN CARPATHIANS

• Main Author: Khevpa, Z.Z.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Institute of Geological Sciences, NAS of Ukraine 2017
• Subjects: the Ukrainian Carpathians; the Peninska Zone; stratigraphy; Svaliava formation; Tysa formation; Pukhiv formation; lower chalk; upper chalk; mollusks; radiolaria; foraminifera; tintinnid; Украинские Карпаты; Пеннинская зона; стратиграфия; свалявская свита; тисальская свита; пуховская свита; нижний мел; верхний мел; моллюски; радиолярии; фораминиферы; тинтинниды; Українські Карпати; Пенінська зона; стратиграфія; свалявська світа; тисальська світа; пухівська світа; нижня крейда; верхня крейда; молюски; радіолярії; форамініфери; тинтиніди; 564.53.551.763.1(477.8)
• Online Access: http://geojournal.igs-nas.org.ua/article/view/121391

The Peninska Zone (or Zone of Mountains) is a complicated tectonic structure. With similar configuration to that of the Carpathian Rib, it spreads as a narrow line for more than 500 km from the Viennese basin through all the West Carpathians to Romania on the South East. This structurally-tectonic element had a very important role during the Mesozoic and the Cainozoic Era in the geological development of the Carpathians and also in the building of their modern structure. The Peninska Zone divided two regions – The Outer (Flysch) and Inner Carpathians that have extremely contrastive geological histories of development. Before our days in numerous layers of Carpathians because of weak removing, there are rare fauna remnants in the flysch thick that this region is constructed of. Also because of the complicated dislocation of the rocks, whole local stratotypes are left faintly characterized from the paleontological point of view, there is no detailed comparison conducted. That is why this work is dedicated to the studying of this question.