Mesozoic paleogeography and facies distribution in the Northern Mediterranean Tethys from Western Carpathians view

West carpathian mesozoic paleogeographic development indicates the effect of a left lateral shift of the alpine-carpathian microcontinent along the european shelf since the early jurassic. the evolution during late triassic/early jurassic was controlled by convergence along the border of the meliata ocean and by contemporaneous divergence along the middle atlantic/penninic rift. during mid-cretaceous, the convergence between africa and paleoeurope started, which finally resulted in collision of alpine-west carpathian microcontinent with the paleoeuropean margin and in the formation of the alpine orogen.