Protracted, coeval crust and mantle melting during Variscan late-orogenic evolution: U–Pb dating in the eastern French Massif Central

O Laurent, S Couzinié, A Zeh, O Vanderhaeghe… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The late stages of the Variscan orogeny are characterized by middle to lower crustal melting
and intrusion of voluminous granitoids throughout the belt, which makes it akin to “hot” …

Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan orogenic belt: the geologic record of the French Massif Central

O Vanderhaeghe, O Laurent… - Bulletin de la …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan
orogenic belt: the geologic record of the French Massif CentralImpact du fluage de la croûte …

The thermal–mechanical evolution of crustal orogenic belts at convergent plate boundaries: A reappraisal of the orogenic cycle

O Vanderhaeghe - Journal of Geodynamics, 2012 - Elsevier
Convergent plate boundaries are characterized by the development of crustal orogenic
wedges and orogenic plateaus but also by gravitational collapse of previously thickened …

Rare elements enrichment in crustal peraluminous magmas: insights from partial melting experiments

JAS Michaud, M Pichavant, A Villaros - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2021 - Springer
Experiments were conducted to explore the behavior of Li, Rb, Nb, Sn, Cs, Ta, W during
crustal melting and test the anatectic origin of rare metal-bearing peraluminous granites …

Geologically constraining India in Columbia: the age, isotopic provenance and geochemistry of the protoliths of the Ongole Domain, Southern Eastern Ghats, India

B Henderson, AS Collins, J Payne, C Forbes… - Gondwana …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ongole Domain in the southern Eastern Ghats Belt of India formed during the
final stages of Columbia amalgamation at ca. 1600 Ma. Yet very little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] The northwest-directed “Bretonian phase” in the French Variscan Belt (Massif central and Massif Armoricain): a consequence of the Early Carboniferous …

M Faure, XH Li, W Lin - Comptes rendus géoscience, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Variscan French Massif Central and Armorican Massif, the tectonic
significance of a widespread NW–SE-trending stretching lineation, coeval with medium …

Zircon U‐Pb chronostratigraphy and provenance of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit and the nature of the contact with the Cycladic Basement on Sikinos and Ios Islands …

EM Poulaki, DF Stockli, ME Flansburg, K Soukis - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sikinos and Ios Islands, located in the Southern Cyclades, represent part of a
Cenozoic metamorphic core complex system that exposes subduction‐related metamorphic …

Middle Carboniferous crustal melting in the Variscan Belt: new insights from U–Th–Pbtot. monazite and U–Pb zircon ages of the Montagne Noire Axial Zone (southern …

M Faure, A Cocherie, EB Mezeme, N Charles… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
In France, the Devonian–Carboniferous Variscan orogeny developed at the expense of
continental crust belonging to the northern margin of Gondwana. A Visean–Serpukhovian …

Variscan crustal thickening in the Maures-Tanneron massif (South Variscan belt, France): new in situ monazite U-Th-Pb chemical dating of high-grade rocks

E Oliot, J Melleton, J Schneider… - Bulletin de la …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Age constraints on the protoliths, deformation, metamorphism and melting events are key
parameters when correlating different continental lithospheric remnants among each other …

Monazite U–Th–Pb EPMA and zircon U–Pb SIMS chronological constraints on the tectonic, metamorphic, and thermal events in the inner part of the Variscan orogen …

D Do Couto, M Faure, R Augier, A Cocherie… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract In the northern Variscan French Massif Central, the Sioule metamorphic series
exposes from top to bottom the tectonic superposition of the Upper Gneiss Unit (UGU) …