Allochthonous terranes involved in the Variscan suture of NW Iberia: A review of their origin and tectonothermal evolution

R Arenas, SS Martínez, RD Fernández, A Gerdes… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
NW Iberia includes a rather complete section of a Variscan suture, where different terranes
with continental or oceanic affinities appear with clear structural relationships. Three groups …

Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

NR McKenzie, BK Horton, SE Loomis, DF Stockli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Variations in continental volcanic arc emissions have the potential to control atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and climate change on multimillion-year time scales. Here we …

Rift-to-collision sediment routing in the Pyrenees: A synthesis from sedimentological, geochronological and kinematic constraints

A Vacherat, F Mouthereau, R Pik, D Huyghe… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reconstructing long-term drainage evolution in collisional setting is key to deciphering
between the drivers controlling landscape and time scales of syn-orogenic sediment transfer …

[HTML][HTML] Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era

A Young, N Flament, K Maloney, S Williams… - Geoscience …, 2019 - Elsevier
Detailed global plate motion models that provide a continuous description of plate
boundaries through time are an effective tool for exploring processes both at and below the …

The pre-orogenic detrital zircon record of the Peri-Gondwanan crust

T Stephan, UWE Kroner, RL Romer - Geological Magazine, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present a statistical approach to data mining and quantitatively evaluating detrital age
spectra for sedimentary provenance analyses and palaeogeographic reconstructions …

Gondwanan basement terranes of the Variscan–Appalachian orogen: Baltican, Saharan and West African hafnium isotopic fingerprints in Avalonia, Iberia and the …

BJ Henderson, WJ Collins, JB Murphy… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Iberia, Avalonia and the “Armorican” terranes form key constituents of the Variscan–
Appalachian orogen, but their Neoproterozoic origins along the northern Gondwanan …

The Cambrian-Early Ordovician rift stage in the Gondwanan units of the Iberian Massif

T Sánchez-García, M Chichorro, AR Solá… - The Geology of Iberia: A …, 2019 - Springer
A rifting stage initiated the Variscan cycle in NW Gondwana, lasted from Terreneuvian to
Early Ordovician times and culminated in opening of the Rheic Ocean. The result of …

Ediacaran to Cambrian oceanic rocks of the Gondwana margin and their tectonic interpretation

JF von Raumer, GM Stampfli, R Arenas… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
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 …

Neoproterozoic magmatic flare-up along the N. margin of Gondwana: The Taknar complex, NE Iran

HS Moghadam, XH Li, JF Santos, RJ Stern… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Magmatic “flare-ups” are common in continental arcs. The best-studied examples of such
flare-ups are from Cretaceous and younger continental arcs, but a more ancient example is …

Correlation of allochthonous terranes and major tectonostratigraphic domains between NW Iberia and the Bohemian Massif, European Variscan belt

JR Martínez Catalán, S Collett, K Schulmann… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The NW Iberian Allochthon and the Teplá-Barrandian and Moldanubian zones
represent the internal parts of the Variscan belt in their respective domains. A correlation …