Despite the Mediterranean sector of the Variscan Belt being fragmented and reworked during Alpine orogenesis, evidence for the activity of a right‐lateral strike‐slip shear zone …
Detailed geological field mapping, integrated with meso-and microstructural investigations, kinematic of the flow and finite strain analyses, combined with geochronology, are …
Abstract The Aiguilles-Rouges and Mont-Blanc massifs represent a segment of a crustal- scale transpressional shear zone named the East Variscan Shear Zone (EVSZ) along which …
A revision of late Palaeozoic tectonics recorded in Tuscany, Calabria and Corsica is here presented. We propose that, in Tuscany, upper Carboniferous-Permian shallow-marine to …
In recent decades, constraining the timing of shear activity has been one of the main topics of research about the tectono-metamorphic evolution of orogenic belts. We present a review …
Vorticity estimates based on porphyroclasts analysis are limited by the extrapolation to three dimensions of two‐dimensional data. We describe a 3D approach based on the use of X‐ray …
Abstract The Maures–Tanneron Massif and the Corsica–Sardinia Block are two segments of the southern European Variscan belt that separated during the Late Oligocene–Miocene …
Shear zone behavior is mainly controlled by deformation regime (brittle versus ductile), deformation temperature, strain rate and magnitude, and rheology of the deformed rocks. If a …
Abstract The Oisans–Pelvoux massif belongs to the Paleozoic basement of the External western Alps and records high temperature (HT) metamorphism associated with intense …