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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2003  
         
  Article:   PILLOW-LAVAS OF THE POVLEN MT. (WESTERN SERBIA).

Authors:  DANICA SRECKOVIC-BATOCANIN, BILJANA NIKOLIN, NADA VASKOVIC. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  In the western ridge of the Povlen Mountain one of the largest outcrops of basic volcanic rocks (covering about 4 km2), occurring as pillow lavas, has been observed (Fig. 1). In the lower parts of this unit, epiclastic breccias composed of serpentinite, diabases of ophitic, intersertal or quench texture as well as glassy lava clasts, prevail. Pillow lavas of different size (from 10 x 15 cm up to 20 x 25 cm) and heaving a weakly developed amygdaloidal structure, progressively become more abundant upwards. They are dark-green in colour, highly hydrothermally altered and cataclastily deformed. In the marginal parts of this unit, tuffaceous sandstone with well developed, clearly visible granulometric gradation overlain by Triassic limestones was noticed. ...  
         
     
         
         
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