[HTML][HTML] A restored section of the “southern Variscan realm” across the Corsica–Sardinia microcontinent

P Rossi, G Oggiano, A Cocherie - Comptes rendus géoscience, 2009 - Elsevier
A complete section of the southern realm of the Variscan orogenic belt can be restored in the
Corsica–Sardinia segment. Northern Corsica exposes a nonmetamorphosed Palaeozoic …

[PDF][PDF] Variscan metamorphism in Sardinia, Italy: review and discussion

M Franceschelli, M Puxeddu, G Cruciani - Journal of the Virtual …, 2005 - academia.edu
The Sardinian segment of the Variscan chain is divided into four tectonometamorphic zones
from NE to SW: 1) Inner zone, with medium-to high-grade metamorphic rocks and …

Metabasites with eclogite facies relics from Variscides in Sardinia, Italy: a review

M Franceschelli, M Puxeddu, G Cruciani… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Metabasites with eclogite facies relics occur in northern Sardinia as massive to strongly
foliated lenses or boudins embedded within low-to medium-grade rocks (Anglona) and …

Multiple early Paleozoic volcanic events at the northern Gondwana margin: U–Pb age evidence from the Southern Variscan branch (Sardinia, Italy)

G Oggiano, L Gaggero, A Funedda, L Buzzi… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
In Sardinia, one of the southernmost remains of the European Variscan belt, a crustal
section through different Gondwanan paleodomains is largely preserved. Laser ablation ICP …

The geodynamic evolution of the Southern European Variscides: constraints from the U/Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the lower Palaeozoic magmatic …

F Giacomini, RM Bomparola, C Ghezzo… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2006 - Springer
The high-grade metamorphic complex of northern Sardinia consists of a strongly deformed
sequence of migmatitic ortho-and paragneisses interlayered with minor amphibolites …

Age determination of Ordovician magmatism in NE Sardinia and its bearing on Variscan basement evolution

H Helbing, M Tiepolo - Journal of the Geological Society, 2005 - lyellcollection.org
A newly discovered pre-Variscan cover–basement relationship in NE Sardinia is defined by
differences in structural and metamorphic histories. The oldest metamorphic fabrics in the …

Early Palaeozoic geodynamics in NW Gondwana

JJ Álvaro, JM Casas, S Clausen, C Quesada - Journal of Iberian Geology, 2018 - Springer
During Ordovician times, the northwestern margin of Gondwana, in a transect linking the Anti-
Atlas, the western and eastern branches of the Ibero-Armorican Arc and the Alps, recorded a …

Late Ordovician (post-Sardic) rifting branches in the North Gondwanan Montagne Noire and Mouthoumet massifs of southern France

JJ Álvaro, J Colmenar, E Monceret, A Pouclet… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Upper Ordovician–Lower Devonian rocks of the Cabrières klippes (southern
Montagne Noire) and the Mouthoumet massif in southern France rest paraconformably or …

The pre-alpine basement in the Alpi apuane (Northern Apennines, Italy)

P Conti, A Di Pisa, M Gattiglio, M Meccheri - Pre-Mesozoic geology in the …, 1993 - Springer
Abstract The Alpi Apuane is a well-known tectonic window in the Northern Apennines
(Tuscany), in which a pre-Alpine lithostratigraphic sequence crops out widely and which …

Mid-Ordovician U–Pb ages of porphyroids in the Peloritan Mountains (NE Sicily): palaeogeographical implications for the evolution of the Alboran microplate

A Trombetta, R Cirrincione, F Corfu… - Journal of the …, 2004 - lyellcollection.org
Petrographic, geochemical and geochronological work on a metavolcanic suite interbedded
in a metapelitic sequence of the Palaeozoic basement in the Peloritan Mountains (Sicily) is …