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The Moesian Platform is a significant tectonic unit in the foreland of the Carpathians and Balkans, spanning across southern Romania and northern Bulgaria. It forms an elongated, west-east oriented structural unit defined by faults, extending into the Western Black Sea Basin up to the continental slope, where it gradually transitions into oceanic-type crust. Although by definition it is considered a stable tectonic unit, the Moesian Platform has played a significant role in the geological history of the region. It is widely accepted that Moesia collided with the emerging Carpathian-Balkan orogens during Cretaceous through Miocene. This collision was crucial in forming the Carpathians’ double-bend, generating significant extensional forces within the Moesian Platform during Pliocene-Quaternary. Originating in the research for the “Intramoesian Fault: Geophysical detection and regional active (net)tectonics and geodynamics” PhD thesis ( Stanciu, 2020 ), the Moesian Platform is an area of our interest for deciphering the geotectonic history, its (neo)tectonic features, geological structures and complex geomorphology.