The architecture and mechanics of an orogen can be understood in terms of a system of
collages that are characterized by a complex assemblage of multiple components, but the …

The architecture of accretionary orogens is a key to understand continental growth. Here we
present an overview of the orogenic components and their amalgamation in the western …

Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this
interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to …

Geological evidence, supported by biogeographical data and in accord with
palaeomagnetic constraints, indicates that “one ocean” models for the Variscides should be …

Gondwana is reviewed from the unification of its several cratons in the Late Neoproterozoic,
through its combination with Laurussia in the Carboniferous to form Pangea and up to its …

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 …

Abstract The European Variscan belt is a unique orogen that is covered by comprehensive
sets of seismic and potential field data from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Polish …

ABSTRACT The Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean closed when the Amuria block, normally
considered to have been part of the North China block since the early Mesozoic, and the …

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 …

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 …