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THE OLDNESS OF THE TERRAIN
OF NOVI PAZAR AND ENVIRONMENT

In the territory of the flow of the river Ra{ka (environment of Novi Pazar),
different magmas, sediment and metamorphic rocks are detected, created from the
earlier Paleozoic (the Ordovicijum and the Silurian period) until today in a span of
almost 500 millions years. In many localities they are the bearers of berth of differ-
ent mineral raw materials.
The earlier Paleozoic (the Carbon) was built by different metamorphic
rocks from argillaceous trough marble to gneiss and slate and other rocks.
The lower Triassic was made of sand stones, conglomerates, and clayish
and sandy lime stones. The middle Triassic was made of lime stones and dolomite,
as the upper too, up to 180 millions years before, when see and land were dried up
and that continued up to the upper Jurassic, when see with unstable bottom was
formed again, in which basic volcanism flooded, mixed with sediments by con-
stant tectonic movements, and created Dijabas Rozmac formation.
At the end of the Jurassic see pulled back up to the upper Cretaceous and in-
vaded again in to unstable, long and deep basins. One of them was Novi Pazar’s ba-
sin and in it at first were created conglomerates and pebbles, massive lime stones
and marls which when they were upper transited in to cyclic shifts of sediments.
At the end of the upper Cretaceous see pulled back, and in the Tertiary up to
30 millions years before started activities of magma witch was inland and so outer
volcanic force. Volcanic eruptions of Rogozna and Golija repeated in several mo-
ments.
During the Miocene and the Pleistocene, our territory had been griped by la-
ke basins Sjenica’s, Novi Pazar’s, a bit less Tutin’s and Ra{ka’s which existed until
3 millions years.
The Quaternary, the youngest geological period, which still continues, left
also deep trace of the glacial period.