Abstract

During the Late Jurrasic Adriatic carbonate platform was characterized by complex palaeogeographical and depositional relationships. A major part of the platform remained within restricted lagoonal settings, but some areas of the platform were uplifted, emerged and karstified, characterised by local deposition of bauxites. However, the NE margin of the platform was contemporaneously partially drowned. Facies correlation from two choosen localities in Karst Dinarides, Croatia; Sošice and Rovinj, reveals that during the Late Jurassic increased accommodation loss on Sošice locality coincided with increased accommodation gain on Rovinj locality. This suggests tectonic movements that were synchronous but of different style consequently enabling the relative uplift on one side of the platform but subsidence on its opposite side. Therefore, it is assumed that the extensive drowning event induced by progressive block faulting on the NE Adriatic carbonate platform margin (where present-day Sošice locality is situated) caused a relative uplift on its SE area (where present-day Rovinj locality is situated) resulting in long term emersion event there.