[HTML][HTML] The Mid-Variscan Allochthon: Keys from correlation, partial retrodeformation and plate-tectonic reconstruction to unlock the geometry of a non-cylindrical belt

JRM Catalan, K Schulmann, JF Ghienne - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The non-cylindrical character of the Variscan Belt is established via a description of its most
salient geological characteristics and correlations among the main and relatively minor …

Palaeogeography and crustal evolution of the Ossa–Morena Zone, southwest Iberia, and the North Gondwana margin during the Cambro-Ordovician: a review of …

A Cambeses, JH Scarrow, P Montero… - International Geology …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cambro-Ordovician palaeogeography and fragmentation of the North Gondwana margin is
still not very well understood. Here we address this question using isotopic data to consider …

Crustal structure of the transpressional Variscan orogen of SW Iberia: SW Iberia deep seismic reflection profile (IBERSEIS)

JF Simancas, R Carbonell, F González Lodeiro… - …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
IBERSEIS, a 303 km long (20 s) deep seismic reflection profile, was acquired across the
Variscan belt in SW Iberian Peninsula. The acquisition parameters were designed to obtain …

P–T–t evolution of garnet amphibolites in the Wutai–Hengshan area, North China Craton: insights from phase equilibria and geochronology

JH Qian, CJ Wei - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Garnet amphibolites can provide valuable insights into geological processes of orogenic
belts, but their metamorphic evolution is still poorly constrained. Garnet amphibolites from …

The tectonic frame of the Variscan–Alleghanian orogen in Southern Europe and Northern Africa

JF Simancas, A Tahiri, A Azor, FG Lodeiro… - Tectonophysics, 2005 - Elsevier
By confronting different geological and geophysical data, we attempt to reconstruct the
Variscan–Alleghanian orogenic belt, with especial emphasis on the links between Iberia …

The Central Iberian arc, an orocline centered in the Iberian Massif and some implications for the Variscan belt

JR Martínez Catalán - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012 - Springer
An arcuate structure, comparable in size with the Ibero-Armorican arc, is delineated by
Variscan folds and magnetic anomalies in the Central Iberian Zone of the Iberian Massif …

Rheic Ocean ophiolitic remnants in southern Iberia questioned by SHRIMP U‐Pb zircon ages on the Beja‐Acebuches amphibolites

A Azor, D Rubatto, JF Simancas… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Rheic Ocean was a major oceanic domain between Avalonia and Gondwana in
Ordovician‐Silurian times. Most of the Paleozoic plate reconstructions assume that the …

Oroclines of the Variscan orogen of Iberia: Paleocurrent analysis and paleogeographic implications

J Shaw, ST Johnston, G Gutiérrez-Alonso… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Coupled structural and paleomagnetic analyses have shown that the northern Iberian bend
of the Variscan orogen, referred to as the Cantabrian Orocline, developed by vertical axis …

Deformation and structure

A Azor, Í Dias da Silva, J Gómez Barreiro… - The Geology of Iberia: A …, 2019 - Springer
The Variscan deformation in the Iberian Massif is related to the large-scale plate tectonic
scenario that drove to the destruction of the Rheic and other intervening oceans, to finally …

Geochemical and metamorphic record of the amphibolites from the Tuting–Tidding Suture Zone ophiolites, Eastern Himalaya, India: implications for the presence of a …

A Dutt, AK Singh, RK Srivastava, G Oinam… - Geological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The Tuting–Tidding Suture Zone (TTSZ), exposed along Dibang and Lohit river valleys in
Arunachal Himalaya, NE India, is the easternmost continuation of the Indus–Tsangpo Suture …