The Stavelot-Venn Massif (Ardenne, Belgium), a rift shoulder basin ripped off the West African craton: Cartography, stratigraphy, sedimentology, new U-Pb on zircon …

A Herbosch, JP Liégeois, A Gärtner, M Hofmann… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Stavelot-Venn Massif (SVM) is the major Cambrian-Ordovician inlier of the
Ardenne Allochthon (Southern Belgium). The SVM belongs to the Avalonian microcontinent …

The Late Variscan control on the location and asymmetry of the Upper Rhine Graben

JC Grimmer, JRR Ritter, GH Eisbacher… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The NNE-trending Upper Rhine Graben (URG) of the European Cenozoic Rift
System developed from c. 47 Ma onwards in response to changing lithospheric stresses in …

Accretion of a rifted passive margin: The Late Paleozoic Rhenohercynian fold and thrust belt (Middle European Variscides)

O Oncken, C Von Winterfeld, U Dittmar - Tectonics, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
In the western Rhenish Massif, the Rhenohercynian fold and thrust belt of the Middle
European Varsicides exposes a telescoped complete Devonian to Early Carboniferous …

Transformation of a magmatic arc and an orogenic root during oblique collision and it's consequences for the evolution of the European Variscides (Mid-German …

O Oncken - Geologische Rundschau, 1997 - Springer
The architecture of the European Variscides has been subdivided by Kossmat (1927) into
paleogeographically coherent units which are presently interpreted as former plate …

Post-Variscan evolution of the lithosphere in the Rhine Graben area: constraints from subsidence modelling

PA Ziegler, ME Schumacher, P Dèzes… - Geological Society …, 2004 - lyellcollection.org
In the area of the Cenozoic Rhine rift system, crustal and lithospheric thicknesses range
between 24 and 35 km, and 60 and 120 km, respectively. This rift system transects the …

From microscope to mountain belt: 150 years of petrology and its contribution to understanding geodynamics, particularly the tectonics of orogens

M Brown - Journal of Geodynamics, 2001 - Elsevier
Thirty-five years ago the introduction of the plate tectonics paradigm led to a new
understanding of orogeny. Subsequently, the development of advanced instruments for …

Syn-convergent high-temperature metamorphism and magmatism in the Variscides: a discussion of potential heat sources

A Henk, F von Blanckenburg, F Finger… - Geological Society …, 2000 - lyellcollection.org
A period of pervasive high-temperature metamorphism and igneous activity from 340 to 325
Ma is a well-established characteristic of the Variscan Orogen of Central Europe. During this …

Large woody debris accumulations in the Late Pennsylvanian tropics—evolutionary signal or tectono-climatic archive?

S Trümper, V Mencl, S Opluštil, S Niemirowska… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
By colonizing drylands, plants fundamentally changed continental deposition and, thus,
intensified the interaction between life and sediments. Fossil large woody debris in epiclastic …

Heat flow evolution, subsidence and erosion in the Rheno-Hercynian orogenic wedge of central Europe

R Littke, C Büker, M Hertle, H Karg… - Geological Society …, 2000 - lyellcollection.org
Numerical, thermal and rheological modelling techniques are applied to unravel the basin-
forming processes and the heat flow and burial history of the Rheno-Hercynian fold belt …

Gravitational orogenic collapse vs plate-boundary stresses: a numerical modelling approach to the Permo-Carboniferous evolution of Central Europe

A Henk - Geologische Rundschau, 1997 - Springer
A two-dimensional thermo-mechanical finite element model is used to study the Permo-
Carboniferous evolution of Central Europe along a lithosphere-scale transect from the …