From a bipartite Gondwanan shelf to an arcuate Variscan belt: The early Paleozoic evolution of northern Peri-Gondwana

T Stephan, UWE Kroner, RL Romer, D Rösel - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleozoic Variscan Orogen of Europe and North Africa comprises
reworked Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic crust of the northern Gondwanan shelf that …

Tectonic evolution of Variscan Iberia: gondwana–Laurussia collision revisited

RD Fernández, R Arenas, MF Pereira… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
An integrated interpretation of the late Paleozoic structural and geochronological record of
the Iberian Massif is presented and discussed under the perspective of a Gondwana …

Space and time in the tectonic evolution of the northwestern Iberian Massif: Implications for the Variscan belt

JRM Catalán, R Arenas, FD García, PG Cuadra… - 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent advances in geochemical studies of igneous rocks, isotopic age data for magmatism
and metamorphism, quantitative pressure-temperature (PT) estimates of metamorphic …

[HTML][HTML] A rootless suture and the loss of the roots of a mountain chain: the Variscan belt of NW Iberia

JRM Catalán, R Arenas, J Abati… - Comptes …, 2009 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Ophiolites of different Paleozoic ages occur in North-West (NW) Iberia in a rootless suture
representing the remnants of the Rheic Ocean. Associated allochthonous terranes in the …

Hemispheric geochemical dichotomy of the mantle is a legacy of austral supercontinent assembly and onset of deep continental crust subduction

MG Jackson, FA Macdonald - AGU Advances, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic hotspots with extreme enriched mantle radiogenic isotopic signatures—including
low 143Nd/144Nd indicative of subducted continental crust—are linked to plume conduits …

Ediacaran to Lower Ordovician age for rocks ascribed to the Schist–Graywacke Complex (Iberian Massif, Spain): Evidence from detrital zircon SHRIMP U–Pb …

C Talavera, P Montero, DM Poyatos, IS Williams - Gondwana Research, 2012 - Elsevier
New SHRIMP U–Pb ages of detrital zircon obtained from eight samples of Neoproterozoic to
Lower Paleozoic graywackes, schists, microconglomerates and shales provide the …

Provenance constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb ages in the NW Iberian Massif: implications for Palaeozoic plate configuration and Variscan evolution

JRMI Catalán, J FernÁndez-SuÁrez… - Journal of the …, 2004 - lyellcollection.org
Detrital zircons from pre-orogenic Upper Ordovician to Devonian low-grade
metasedimentary rocks have been dated by laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma …

A Rheic cause for the Acadian deformation in Europe

NH Woodcock, NJ Soper… - Journal of the Geological …, 2007 - lyellcollection.org
The Acadian (mid-Devonian) deformation in NW Europe has typically been interpreted as
the culminating event of the Silurian closure of the Iapetus Ocean. This view has been …

S-type granite generation and emplacement during a regional switch from extensional to contractional deformation (Central Iberian Zone, Iberian autochthonous …

MF Pereira, R Díez Fernández, C Gama… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Zircon grains extracted from S-type granites of the Mêda-Escalhão-Penedono Massif
(Central Iberian Zone, Variscan Orogen) constrain the timing of emplacement and provide …

Reconciling competing models for the tectono-stratigraphic zonation of the Variscan orogen in Western Europe

JB Murphy, C Quesada, G Gutiérrez-Alonso… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleozoic Variscan orogen in Europe is the result of convergence and
collision between Laurussia and Gondwana during closure of the Rheic Ocean. The orogen …