Fig. 7

Palaeogeographic setting at 160 (a) and 152 (b) Ma (modified after Gallhofer et al. 2017). Note in a the track of the next cross sections c–e. The cross sections (not to scale) are simplified reconstructions of the main events affecting the eastern Adria plate during the drifting of the Alpine Tethys at the western margin: c oceanic subduction of Meliata and west Vardar oceans. d impingement of Adria continental lithosphere into the subduction system and activity of the Vardar volcanic arc with explosive volcanism and ash fall over Adria and Europe. e obduction of the W Vardar against Adria and E Vardar against Rhodope