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.
| Lake Slavonia | |
|---|---|
 Map of the lake | |
| Location | Pannonian Plain |
| Type | former lake |
| Basin countries | modern day Serbia, Croatia, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina[1] |
| Max. length | 290 kilometres (180 mi)[1] |
| Max. width | 120 kilometres (75 mi)[1] |
| Surface area | 28,000 kilometres (17,000 mi)[1] |
| Islands | Fruška Gora |
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]
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edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Filip Anđelković; Dejan Radivojević (2021). "The Serbian Lake Pannon Formations – Their Significance and Interregional Correlation". Geoloski anali Balkanskoga poluostrva. 82 (2): 43–67.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "7th International Workshop Neogene of Central and South-Eastern Europe" (PDF). Croatian Geological Society. 2017.
- ^ 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.