The long-lasting evolution of the Dinarides which involved multiple phases of intense tectonics produced numerous synorogenic basins. In orogenic settings, where details regarding geological events are often obscured by tectonothermal overprinting, dismemberment and erosion, clastic material stored within synorogenic sediments represents an indispensable source of information. In fact, where uplift and erosion have completely removed certain geological units, data derived from the analysis of such clastic material may well be the only remaining evidence of past events. Today, situated along the boundary between the internal and external Dinarides, remnants of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene basin system extend from the Alpine-Dinaride transitional area in Slovenia and Croatia and continue along the main Dinaric trend through Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. At present, a general lack of detailed multi-method provenance and biostratigraphic data on basinal deposits of the Dinarides hinders our ability to place precise, reliable constraints on the dynamics of major tectonic phases and the paleogeographic changes that resulted. 

1. Sedimentary and stratigraphic analysis of pelagic-hemipelagic and “flysch” deposits

2. Petrographic analyses of the siliciclastic and calciclastic detrital material

3. Geochemical and geochronological analyses of individual detrital heavy mineral grains