Continental crustal growth processes recorded in the Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet

DC Zhu, Q Wang, RF Weinberg… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The continental crust in the overriding plate of the India-Asia collision zone in southern Tibet
is characterized by an overthickened layer of felsic composition with an underlying granulite …

[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 …

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 …

Correlation of the nappe stack in the Ibero-Armorican arc across the Bay of Biscay: a joint French–Spanish project

M Ballèvre, JR Martínez Catalán… - Geological Society …, 2014 - lyellcollection.org
A correlation between allochthonous units exposed in the NW Iberian Massif and the
southern Armorican Massif is carried out based on lithological associations, structural …

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 …

The late Variscan HT/LP metamorphic event in NW and Central Iberia: relationships to crustal thickening, extension, orocline development and crustal evolution

JR Martínez Catalán, FJ Rubio Pascual… - Geological Society …, 2014 - lyellcollection.org
The Variscan metamorphic evolution of the autochthonous domain of NW and Central Iberia
is characterized by a Barrovian gradient followed by a high-temperature–low-pressure …

Kinematic constraints on buckling a lithospheric-scale orocline along the northern margin of Gondwana: A geologic synthesis

AB Weil, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, ST Johnston… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The Paleozoic Variscan orogeny was a large-scale collisional event involving amalgamation
of multiple continents and micro-continents. Existing data, suggests oroclinal buckling of an …

Petrogenetic relationships between Variscan granitoids and Li-(FP)-rich aplite-pegmatites in the Central Iberian Zone: Geological and geochemical constraints and …

E Roda-Robles, C Villaseca, A Pesquera… - Ore Geology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Iberian Zone (CIZ) is characterised by a large volume of Variscan
granitic intrusions, which can be grouped into five types:(1) two-mica peraluminous …

Oroclines: Thick and thin

ST Johnston, AB Weil, G Gutiérrez-Alonso - Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
An orocline is a thrust belt or orogen that is curved in map-view due to it having been bent or
buckled about a vertical axis of rotation. Two distinct types of oroclines are recognized …

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 …