New insights into tectonic relations between the Eastern Vardar Ophiolitic and Serbo-Macedonian units: Inferences from a microtectonic study in central Serbia

A microtectonic study was conducted in the Levac region of central Serbia. Here, tectonic contacts between Europe?derived units, including Serbo-Macedonian unit and Jurassic sedimentary cover European margin, Eastern Vardar Ophiolitic unit, are exposed at surface. The results indicate that contact zone underwent least two ductile contractional deformation phases. older contraction associated with formation isoclinal folding top-to-SE shearing immediate ophiolites continental margin. This phase likely thrusting during latest obduction over created a sub-ophiolitic melange currently preserved narrow their underlying sediments, which turn metamorphism lower greenschist facies. obduction-related highly overprinted by younger, top-to-W Cretaceous-Paleogene collision Europe-and Adria-derived units.