[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 …

Tectonic evolution of Variscan Iberia: gondwana–Laurussia collision revisited

RD Fernández, R Arenas, MF Pereira… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
An integrated interpretation of the late Paleozoic structural and geochronological record of
the Iberian Massif is presented and discussed under the perspective of a Gondwana …

Geodynamic evolution of the SW Europe Variscides

A Ribeiro, J Munhá, R Dias, A Mateus, E Pereira… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The early evolution of SW Europe Variscides started by opening of the Rheic ocean at∼ 500
Ma, splitting Avalonia from Armorica/Iberia. Subduction on the SE side of Rheic generated …

U–Pb geochronology of Variscan granitoids from the Moroccan Meseta (Northwest Africa): tectonic implications

F Chopin, R Leprêtre, M El Houicha, AS Tabaud… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper present new U–Pb geochronological data (LA-ICP MS on zircon) of granitoids
from the Moroccan Meseta Variscan belt. Zircons from the Oulad Ouaslam granodiorite in …

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 …

The missing Rheic Ocean magmatic arcs: provenance analysis of Late Paleozoic sedimentary clastic rocks of SW Iberia

MF Pereira, M Chichorro, ST Johnston… - Gondwana …, 2012 - Elsevier
Early Carboniferous turbiditic sedimentary rocks in synorogenic basins located on both
sides of the Rheic suture in SW Iberia were studied for provenance analysis. An enigmatic …

Tectonic escape of a crustal fragment during the closure of the Rheic Ocean: U–Pb detrital zircon data from the Late Palaeozoic Pulo do Lobo and South Portuguese …

JA Braid, JB Murphy, C Quesada… - Journal of the …, 2011 - lyellcollection.org
The Pulo do Lobo Zone, which crops out immediately north of the allochthonous South
Portuguese Zone in southern Iberia, is classically interpreted as a polydeformed …

Variscan ophiolite belts in the Ossa-Morena Zone (Southwest Iberia): Geological characterization and geodynamic significance

A Ribeiro, J Munhá, PE Fonseca, A Araújo, JC Pedro… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
The boundary between the Iberian and South-Portuguese terranes in SW Iberia is traced by
a suture recording the closure of Rheic and related oceans through NNE-directed …

Birth and demise of the Rheic Ocean magmatic arc (s): Combined U–Pb and Hf isotope analyses in detrital zircon from SW Iberia siliciclastic strata

MF Pereira, G Gutíerrez-Alonso, JB Murphy, K Drost… - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Paleozoic continental reconstructions indicate that subduction of Rheic oceanic lithosphere
led to collision between Laurussia and Gondwana which was a major event in the formation …

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 …