In all reconstructions published during the last two decades, the Austroalpine and the
correlative Southalpine basement units of the Eastern Alps were considered to represent a …

In southern Turkey (Taurus Chain or Taurides) and southeastern Turkey (Border Folds of the
Arabian Plate), nearly complete Cambrian to Ordovician successions are preserved. Four …

Prior to their Alpine overprinting, most of the pre-Mesozoic basement areas in Alpine
orogenic structures shared a complex evolution, starting with Neoproterozoic sediments that …

New plate-tectonic reconstructions of the Gondwana margin suggest that the location of
Gondwana-derived terranes should not only be guided by the models, but should also …

Field evidence from the western Tianshan subduction complex in northwestern China
indicates that the high field strength elements Ti, Nb, and Ta were mobilized and thereby …

ABSTRACT The Paleozoic Middle East terranes, neighboring the present-day Arabian and
Levant plates, are shown by most authors to consist of ten major tectonic units:(1 and 2) the …

In tectonic maps of Variscan Europe, allochthonous pieces of Cadomian basement clearly
stand out with their predominant metabasic to ultrabasic elements, the so-called exotic …

Early Paleozoic accretionary orogens dominated the Western Gondwana margin and were
characterized by nearly continuous subduction associated with crustal extension and back …

Abstract The Albany-Fraser Orogen is considered to be a response to Mesoproterozoic
continent–continent collision between the combined North and West Australian Cratons and …

The existence of pieces of the Variscan belt in the Alpine basement has been acknowledged
for a long time but the correlation of these massifs to the litho-tectonic domains established …