Transgressive overlap of a turbiditic sequence—priabonian of Ovče Pole,Macedonia

Flysch sequences develop normally from pelagic sediments, over a pre-flysch transitional unit, or from a well-developed transgressive base. A different situation has been observed in the western portion of the Upper Eocene flysch basin of Ov?e Pole, Macedonia, where deep-water turbidites appear almost directly over the eroded basement, transgressively overlapping the preexisting submarine relief. These relationships are explained as results of successive phases of subsidence in the basin. The outcrop area, situated between Titov Veles and Gradsko, represented a surface without deposition in the early depositional stages. Later subsidence introduced a turbiditic deposition into the domain without a break in sedimentation. Such cases may occur also in other flysch basins where lateral migration of the main depositional trough took place during the sedimentation.