Late Palaeozoic palaeomagnetic and tectonic constraints for amalgamation of Pangea supercontinent in the European Variscan belt

JB Edel, K Schulmann, O Lexa, JM Lardeaux - Earth-science reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review of the evolution of palaeomagnetic directions and sequence of
tectonic events in the European Variscan belt during Late Palaeozoic times. These data are …

The Atlas-East Variscan-Elbe shear system and its role in the formation of the pull-apart Late Palaeozoic basins

FM Elter, L Gaggero, F Mantovani, E Pandeli… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The Variscan orogeny occurred as a result of the Late Devonian to Late Carboniferous
collision and accretion of Gondwana-derived microcontinents and continental masses with …

Pre‐Alpine (Variscan) inheritance: a key for the location of the future Valaisan Basin (Western Alps)

M Ballevre, P Manzotti, GV Dal Piaz - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The boundary between the Helvetic and the Penninic (= Briançonnais) Zones has long been
recognized as a major fault (“Penninic Front”) in the Western Alps. A narrow oceanic domain …

[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 …

Transpressive deformation in the southern european variscan belt: new insights from the aiguilles rouges massif (Western Alps)

M Simonetti, R Carosi, C Montomoli, JM Cottle… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Constraining the timing of evolution of shear zones in two collisional orogens: fusing structural geology and geochronology

R Carosi, C Montomoli, S Iaccarino, B Benetti… - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Late‐orogenic Evolution of the Southern European Variscan Belt Constrained by Fabric Analysis and Dating of the Camarat Granitic Complex and Coeval Felsic …

O Bolle, M Corsini, H Diot, O Laurent, R Melis - Tectonics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Camarat Granitic Complex (CGC), emplaced in the migmatitic Internal Zone of
the Maures–Tanneron Massif (MTM), SE Variscides, consists of the Gigaro granodiorite and …

HTLP metamorphism and fluid‐fluxed melting during multistage anatexis of continental crust (N Sardinia, Italy)

L Casini, M Maino, A Langone… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Variscan high‐grade metamorphic basement of northern Sardinia and southern Corsica
record lower Carboniferous anatexis related to post‐collisional decompression of the …

Unfolding the arc: The use of pre-orogenic constraints to assess the evolution of the Variscan belt in Western Europe

JM Casas, JB Murphy - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a pre-orogenic, early Paleozoic, palinspastic reconstruction of the northern
Gondwana margin that was subsequently involved in the Late Paleozoic Variscan orogeny …

Timing and kinematics of flow in a transpressive dextral shear zone, Maures Massif (Southern France)

M Simonetti, R Carosi, C Montomoli, M Corsini… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
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 …