DACIAN BASIN - GeoEcoMar

2.1. Dacian Basin paleogeographic evolution: its beginnings, development and filling
FIGURE 2.2. Paleogeography of the central part of the Paratethys domain during Chattian
(29-24 Ma) (A) and Eggenburgian ( 20.5-19 Ma) (B). Simplified and modified after the paleogeographic
maps in Popov et al. (2004)
Throughout this Paratethys stage the Dacian Basin did not exist.
Paratethys – a string of basins. Paratethys paleogeography changed from the beginning
of the Badenian (Hamor et al., 1988; Popov et al., 2004). The fore-Alpine Basin,
the westernmost Paratethian basin, closed. The rising Carpathians divided the western
Paratethys, separating the Pannonian Basin area from the Carpathian foredeep
(Fig. 2.3A). In the same time the Moesian – Dobrogean area emerged (Fig. 2.3A) and
divided the Paratethys Basin into a large Oriental Paratehys domain (split in two, Euxinian
and Caspian interconnected basins) and a much smaller western Paratethys
(Pannonian Basin and the Carpathian foredeep) (Fig. 2.3 B).
During the Sarmatian (s. l.) time, the uplifted Carpathians separated Paratethys
into two major parts (Fig. 2.3C). Situated in front of the rising mountain chain, the
Carpathian foredeep belonged to the Oriental Paratethys basin.
The sedimentation basin outside the Carpathians during the Badenian – Early
Sarmatian (s.l.) is the Carpathian foredeep (Fig. 2.3). The basin was shaped as a long
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