Lake Slavonia

Lake Slavonia
Map of the lake
LocationPannonian Plain
Typeformer lake
Basin countriesmodern day Serbia, Croatia, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina[1]
Max. length290 kilometres (180 mi)[1]
Max. width120 kilometres (75 mi)[1]
Surface area28,000 kilometres (17,000 mi)[1]
IslandsFruška Gora

The Lake Slavonia,[a] alternatively Paludina Lake,[2] was an ancient fresh-water lake that developed from the middle Pliocene to the early Pleistocene in the southern part of the Pannonian Basin at the time of final retraction of the Pannonian Sea.[3] The lake was located in the area of modern-day Vojvodina in northern Serbia and eastern Slavonia in Croatia.

In the Pliocene, favourable climatic and geodynamic conditions in southeastern Europe led to the development of extensive, long-lasting lakes like Lake Slavonia.[4] These lakes saw a rapid diversification of viviparid snails during the warming period reaching its peak between 3.3 and 2.9 million years ago when temperatures rose by as much as 10 °C.[4][5]

M. Neumayr and C. M. Paul, in their 1875 study, used the molluscs from Lake Slavonia to develop a regional biostratigraphy, allowing precise stratigraphic analysis of deposits spanning over 600 km along the southern boundary of the Pannonian Basin.[4] They originally named it Paludina Lake but over time researchers introduced the new name of the lake.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Serbo-Croatian: Jezero Slavonija, Језеро Славонија, Hungarian: Szlavóniai-tó, Romanian: Lacul Slavonia, French: Lac de Slavonie, German: Slawonien See

References

  1. ^ a b c d Mathias Harzhauser; Oleg Mandic (2008). "Neogene lake systems of Central and South-Eastern Europe: 3 Faunal diversity, gradients and interrelations". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 260 (3–4): 417–434. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.12.013.
  2. ^ Filip Anđelković; Dejan Radivojević (2021). "The Serbian Lake Pannon Formations – Their Significance and Interregional Correlation". Geoloski anali Balkanskoga poluostrva. 82 (2): 43–67. doi:10.2298/GABP210420007A.
  3. ^ Davor Pavelić; Marijan Kovačić (2018). "Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Neogene rift-type North Croatian Basin (Pannonian Basin System, Croatia): A review". Marine and Petroleum Geology. 91: 455–469. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.01.026.
  4. ^ a b c Oleg Mandic; Tomislav Kurečić; Thomas A. Neubauer; Mathias Harzhauser (2015). "Stratigraphic and paleogeographic significance of lacustrine mollusks from the Pliocene Viviparus beds in central Croatia". Geologia Croatica. 68 (3): 179–207. doi:10.4154/GC.2015.15.
  5. ^ "7th International Workshop Neogene of Central and South-Eastern Europe" (PDF). Croatian Geological Society. 2017.
  6. ^ Tomislav Kurečić; Tomislav Kurečić; Anita Grizelj (2021). "Mineral assemblage and provenance of the Pliocene Viviparus beds from the Area of Vukomeričke Gorice (Central Croatia)". Geologia Croatica. 74 (3): 253–271. doi:10.4154/gc.2021.16.