- Pannonian Sea
The Pannonian Sea was a shallow ancient sea located in the area today known as the
Pannonian Plain inCentral Europe . The Pannonian Sea existed during thePliocene , when three to four kilometres of marine sediments were deposited in thePannonian Basin .History
The Pannonian Sea was part of the
Paratethys Sea that got separated during the later part of theMiocene Epoch (around 10 million years ago). It was connected with theMediterranean Sea (the two seas were connected through the territory of modernRona Gulf ,Bavaria andVienna Basin ).Through the Đerdap Strait, the Pannonian Sea was connected to another sea located in
Wallachia n-Pontic Basin. During its largest geographical extent, the Pannonian Sea reached the south of modernSerbia : a gulf of the Pannonian Sea located in modernMorava river valley stretched to modernGrdelica Gulch andVranje Depression and was connected to theAegean Sea through the modernPreševo Valley .The Pannonian Sea existed for about 9 million years. Its last remains disappered in the middle of
Pleistocene Epoch, about 600,000 years ago. The water of the Pannonian Sea actually ruptured its way through the modern Đerdap Gorge on theDanube river and flowed through the gorge leaving behind a large plain known as thePannonian Plain . The remnants of the former islands of the Pannonian Sea are modernPannonian Island Mountains (Fruška Gora andVršac Mountains ).Pannonian Sea in modern culture
The Pannonian Sea was a subject of the popular song "Panonski mornar" ("Pannonian sailor") of the
Serbia n singerĐorđe Balašević . [http://www.balasevic.info/]References
*Dragan Rodić, Geografija za I ili III razred srednje škole, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 1995.
ee also
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Paratethys
*Pannonian Plain
*Pannonian Basin
*Piemont-Liguria Ocean
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