Two plates—many subduction zones: the Variscan orogeny reconsidered

U Kroner, RL Romer - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The Variscides of Europe and N-Africa are the result of the convergence of the plates of
Gondwana and Laurussia in the Paleozoic. This orogen is characterized by the juxtaposition …

Evolution of the Rheic ocean

RD Nance, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, JD Keppie… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Rheic Ocean, which separated Laurussia from Gondwana following the closure of
Iapetus, is arguably the most important ocean of the Palaeozoic. Its suture extends from …

The Cadomian Orogen: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian crustal growth and orogenic zoning along the periphery of the West African Craton—Constraints from U–Pb …

U Linnemann, A Gerdes, M Hofmann, L Marko - Precambrian Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cadomian Orogen in the NE Bohemian and the northern Armorican Massifs
shows a distinct orogenic zoning from recent NW to SE consisting of (i) an outboard sitting …

The Cadomian Orogeny and the opening of the Rheic Ocean: the diacrony of geotectonic processes constrained by LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon dating (Ossa-Morena and …

U Linnemann, F Pereira, TE Jeffries, K Drost, A Gerdes - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
Cadomian orogenic processes and their continuum to the opening of the Rheic Ocean were
modeled by making use of new LA-ICP-MS U–Pb ages from detrital zircons of sedimentary …

Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections

RD Nance, JB Murphy, RA Strachan… - Geological Society …, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Within the Appalachian–Variscan orogen of North America and southern Europe lie
a collection of terranes that were distributed along the northern margin of West Gondwana in …

West African provenance for Saxo-Thuringia (Bohemian Massif): did Armorica ever leave pre-Pangean Gondwana?–U/Pb-SHRIMP zircon evidence and the Nd …

U Linnemann, NJ McNaughton, RL Romer… - International Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
Neoproterozoic rocks in the Saxo-Thuringian part of Armorica formed in an active margin
setting and were overprinted during Cadomian orogenic processes at the northern margin of …

Neoproterozoic—Early Paleozoic evolution of peri-Gondwanan terranes: implications for Laurentia-Gondwana connections

JB Murphy, SA Pisarevsky, RD Nance… - International Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
Neoproterozoic tectonics is dominated by the amalgamation of the supercontinent Rodinia
at ca. 1.0 Ga, its breakup at ca. 0.75 Ga, and the collision between East and West …

Space and time in the tectonic evolution of the northwestern Iberian Massif: Implications for the Variscan belt

JRM Catalán, R Arenas, FD García, PG Cuadra… - 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent advances in geochemical studies of igneous rocks, isotopic age data for magmatism
and metamorphism, quantitative pressure-temperature (PT) estimates of metamorphic …

Geochronological, geochemical and isotopic study of detrital zircon suites from late Neoproterozoic clastic strata along the NE margin of the East European Craton …

NB Kuznetsov, LM Natapov, EA Belousova… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
U/Pb dating, REE geochemistry and Lu/Hf isotopic studies utilizing LA-ICPMS on detrital
zircon suites from Neoproterozoic siliciclastic rocks from the northeast periphery of the East …

Review of Middle east Paleozoic plate tectonics

DA Ruban, MI Al-Husseini, Y Iwasaki - GeoArabia, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …