by several episodes of bimodal magmatism intruded or outpoured within thick sedimentary
basins. These processes are well recorded in the Variscan blocks incorporated in the
Ligurian Alps because they experienced low temperature Alpine metamorphism. During the
Paleozoic, these blocks, together with the other Alpine basements, were placed between the
Corsica-Sardinia and the Bohemian Massif along the northern margin of Gondwana. In this …