The Rheic Ocean, which separated Laurussia from Gondwana following the closure of
Iapetus, is arguably the most important ocean of the Palaeozoic. Its suture extends from …

Age relations for assembly of Gondwana and Pangea indicate that the timing of collisional
orogenesis between amalgamating continental bodies was synchronous with subduction …

Abstract We review the Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean-
Balkan region with special reference to Anatolia, and provide new isotopic data on the …

The Variscan orogeny, resulting from the collision of Laurussia with Gondwana to form the
supercontinent of Pangaea, was followed by a period of crustal instability and re …

This 4th edition of The Geology of Scotland is greatly expanded from the previous edition
with 34 authors contributing to 20 chapters. A new format has been adopted to provide a …

Marine Carboniferous shales are proven hydrocarbon source rocks in central Britain. In this
contribution the depositional environment and shale gas/liquid potential of the lower …

A synthesis of the upper Moscovian sedimentological and palaeontological record of
terrestrial habitats across the Variscan foreland and adjacent intramontane basins (an area …

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 …

Abstract The Oslo Rift is the northernmost part of the Rotliegendes basin system in Europe.
The rift was formed by lithospheric stretching north of the Tornquist fault system and is …

Revised mapping along the Dent Fault (northwest England) has improved the resolution of
folds and faults formed during Variscan (late Carboniferous) sinistral transpression. A NNE …