The origin and emplacement of Lower Paleogene Bauxites discussed here relies on recent perceptions concerning the development of the collision-induced diachronous discontinuity surfaces in certain parts of the Adriatic-Dinaric Carbonate Platform (ADCP), and in the Istrian Peninsula in particular. This process, related to forebulge uplift during the initial stages of the orogeny, is amply recorded in the geochemical signature of related Istrian Lower Paleogene bauxites (ILPB) as was shown in

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... ious investigations. As their self-evident extension, due attention is paid here to the effects of a flexural bulge in another part of the platform with its own suite of Lower Paleogene bauxite deposits (LPB), notably in its Dinaridic unit. Explication of the typical patterns of bauxite formation is grounded in the development of discriminant function models based on the Compositional Data (CoDa) analysis of geochemical data. This method provides the solid ground for separation of the various a priori defined bauxite groups deposited in the different subaerially exposed platform palaeoenvironments. In the final analysis, the discriminant model characteristic for the westernmost compartment of the Adriatic SW Unit (Istrian Karst) is cross-compared with the analogous model of the entire ADCP taken from earlier investigation but reconsidered within the CoDa framework. It is done with the purpose of assessing the geochemical correspondence between the two event-markers (ILPB and LPB) and clarifying the nature of the pertinent tectonostratigraphic constraints. The computer models show that the forebulge unconformity is not a widespread phenomenon, being distinctly recognized only in the Istrian part of the ADCP.