Geologic history of the Sabzevar oceanic Basin, NE Iran: An overview from continental rifting to obduction in the NeoTethys oceanic system

A Jafari, H Ghasemi - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The issue about the Sabzevar Oceanic Basin (SOB) lifetime and its paleogeographic
position, as a branch of the NeoTethyan oceanic system in Northeast Iran, has long been …

Building an orogen: review of u-pb zircon ages from the calabria–peloritani terrane to constrain the timing of the southern variscan belt

A Fornelli, V Festa, F Micheletti, R Spiess, F Tursi - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The application of zircon dating to the reconstruction of orogenic systems is invaluable since
time constraints of the geological evolution of orogens are crucial for the proposal of …

[HTML][HTML] Early Paleozoic accretionary orogens along the Western Gondwana margin

S Oriolo, B Schulz, S Geuna, PD González… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Early Paleozoic accretionary orogens dominated the Western Gondwana margin and were
characterized by nearly continuous subduction associated with crustal extension and back …

Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of granites in the Baoshan Block, Western Yunnan: Implications for Early Paleozoic evolution along the …

M Dong, G Dong, X Mo, M Santosh, D Zhu, J Yu, F Nie… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
The leucogranites in the Baoshan Block of the Tethyan belt in Western Yunnan, are
composed mainly of two-mica granite with subordinate muscovite granite. Here we present …

[PDF][PDF] The Calabria-Peloritani Orogen, a composite terrane in Central Mediterranean; its overall architecture and geodynamic significance for a pre-Alpine scenario …

R Cirrincione, E Fazio, P Fiannacca… - Periodico di …, 2015 - researchgate.net
Abstract The Calabria-Peloritani Orogen is an arcuate segment of the peri-Mediterranean
orogenic Alpine nappe system that comprises the whole Calabria and the north-eastern …

Speculations on the Paleozoic legacy of Gondwana amalgamation

JB Murphy, RD Nance, ST Johnston, JM Casas… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Using Gondwana as an example, we show how the geological record can be interrogated to
detect significant changes in mantle convection patterns at critical junctures in Earth's …

Zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotopes and geochemistry of the schists, gneisses and granites in Delbar Metamorphic-Igneous Complex, SE of Shahrood (Iran): implications …

MB Einalou, M Sadeghian, M Zhai, H Ghasemi… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Delbar Metamorphic-Igneous Complex (DMIC) consists of the medium to high-
grade metamorphic rocks and granites–leucogranites is located in the Biarjmand region, in …

Detrital rutile U-Pb perspective on the origin of the great Cambro-Ordovician sandstone of North Gondwana and its linkage to orogeny

D Avigad, N Morag, A Abbo, A Gerdes - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract LA-ICPMS U-Pb geochronology of detrital rutile from North Gondwana Cambro-
Ordovician sandstones is reported for the first time. Our sampling sites in Israel, Jordan and …

Origin of the Eastern Mediterranean: Neotethys rifting along a cryptic Cadomian suture with Afro-Arabia

D Avigad, A Abbo, A Gerdes - Bulletin, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean is a land-locked basin, a remnant of the Neotethys
Ocean. It was formed in the Permian–Triassic as a result of the drift of the Tauride block from …

Submagmatic to solid-state deformation microstructures recorded in cooling granitoids during exhumation of late-Variscan crust in North-Eastern Sicily

E Fazio, P Fiannacca, D Russo, R Cirrincione - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Late-Variscan granitoid rocks of trondhjemitic and granitic composition, intruded in
migmatitic paragneisses in the north-eastern Peloritani Mountains (southern Italy) at~ 310 …