Deciphering orogeny: a metamorphic perspective Examples from European Alpine and Variscan belts: Part II: Variscan metamorphism in the French Massif Central–A …

JM Lardeaux - Bulletin de la Société géologique de …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this paper we review and discuss, in a synthetic historical way, the main results obtained
on Variscan metamorphism in the French Massif Central. First, we describe the pre-orogenic …

Protracted, coeval crust and mantle melting during Variscan late-orogenic evolution: U–Pb dating in the eastern French Massif Central

O Laurent, S Couzinié, A Zeh, O Vanderhaeghe… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The late stages of the Variscan orogeny are characterized by middle to lower crustal melting
and intrusion of voluminous granitoids throughout the belt, which makes it akin to “hot” …

Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan orogenic belt: the geologic record of the French Massif Central

O Vanderhaeghe, O Laurent… - Bulletin de la …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Flow of partially molten crust controlling construction, growth and collapse of the Variscan
orogenic belt: the geologic record of the French Massif CentralImpact du fluage de la croûte …

The moldanubian zone in the French Massif Central, Vosges/Schwarzwald and Bohemian Massif revisited: differences and similarities

JM Lardeaux, K Schulmann, M Faure… - Geological Society …, 2014 - lyellcollection.org
In order to portray the main differences and similarities between the Northeastern Variscan
segments (French Massif Central (FMC), Vosges, Black Forest and Bohemian Massif (BM)) …

The Variscan French Massif Central—a new addition to the ultra-high pressure metamorphic 'club': exhumation processes and geodynamic consequences

JM Lardeaux, P Ledru, I Daniel, S Duchene - Tectonophysics, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper presents the first documentation of coesite-bearing eclogites in the eastern
French Massif Central (Monts du Lyonnais unit) and discusses the exhumation processes for …

Late Precambrian and Palaeozoic evolution of the Alpine basement—an overview

JF Von Raumer, F Neubauer - Pre-Mesozoic geology in the Alps, 1993 - Springer
Abstract Situated between Gondwana and Laurussia, the pre-Mesozoic Alpine basement
registered all the main orogenic periods since the Precambrian. During this long evolution …

Pre-Cadomian to late-Variscan odyssey of the eastern Massif Central, France: formation of the West European crust in a nutshell

C Chelle-Michou, O Laurent, JF Moyen, S Block… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Massif Central (EMC), France, is part of the internal zone of the Variscan
belt where late Carboniferous crustal melting and orogenic collapse have largely obliterated …

[PDF][PDF] Metamorphism during late orogenic extension; insights from the French Variscan belt

V Gardien, JM Lardeaux, P Ledru… - Bulletin de la Société …, 1997 - researchgate.net
La présence d'un dôme granito-gneissique à la base de ces séries métamorphiques
témoigne: développement d'une importante anomalie thermique dans la croûte qui est …

[HTML][HTML] How many subductions in the Variscan orogeny? Insights from numerical models

A Regorda, JM Lardeaux, M Roda, AM Marotta… - Geoscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
We developed a 2D numerical model to simulate the evolution of two superposed ocean-
continent-ocean subduction cycles with opposite vergence, both followed by continental …

Crust‐mantle relationships in the French Variscan chain: the example of the Southern Monts du Lyonnais unit (eastern French Massif Central)

V Gardien, M Tegyey, JM Lardeaux… - Journal of …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Garnet lherzolite from the Lyonnais area (eastern French Massif Central) occurs as several
lenses elongated within the regional foliation of garnet‐biotite‐sillimanite gneisses. Within …