[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 …

Pre-Alpine tectonic evolution of the Eastern Alps: from prototethys to paleotethys

F Neubauer, Y Liu, Y Dong, R Chang, J Genser… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
In all reconstructions published during the last two decades, the Austroalpine and the
correlative Southalpine basement units of the Eastern Alps were considered to represent a …

[HTML][HTML] Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin–implications for subduction processes in the Alps

E Le Breton, S Brune, K Ustaszewski, S Zahirovic… - Solid Earth, 2021 - se.copernicus.org
Assessing the size of a former ocean of which only remnants are found in mountain belts is
challenging but crucial to understanding subduction and exhumation processes. Here we …

Evolution of the Alpine orogenic belts in the Western Mediterranean region as resolved by the kinematics of the Europe-Africa diffuse plate boundary

P Angrand, F Mouthereau - BSGF-Earth Sciences …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The West European collisional Alpine belts are the result of the inversion, initiated
in the middle Cretaceous, of the complex western Neotethys and the Atlantic continental rift …

The Fornovolasco area (Alpi Apuane, Northern Apennines): a review and update on its Palaeozoic succession, middle Permian magmatism, and tectonic setting

D Pieruccioni, A Spina, A Brogi… - Italian Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study aims at refining the geological setting of the Fornovolasco area in the southern
part of the Alpi Apuane (Northern Apennines, Italy). Due to the occurrence of Palaeozoic …

Dating Low‐Grade Deformation: Role of Lithology and Strain Partitioning on Ar Isotope Records in the Alpi Apuane of Northern Apennines (Italy)

G Di Vincenzo, G Godard, G Molli - Tectonics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Alpi Apuane (northern Apennines) represent a key area for understanding the
processes related to the Apennines building and geodynamic evolution of the central …

Use of palynology and thermal maturity in deformed geological units: A case study from the Permian succession in the Monte Leoni area (Middle Tuscan Ridge, inner …

A Spina, A Brogi, E Capezzuoli, G Ventruti, M Zucchi… - Sedimentary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The reconstruction of the upper Palaeozoic sedimentary evolution of Western Mediterranean
area is suffering for scarce age documentation of its stratigraphic units. This is also the …

[HTML][HTML] Ice-crystal traces imply ephemeral freezing in early Permian equatorial Pangea

LS Pfeifer, BA Birkett, J Van Den Driessche… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Delicate impressions in lacustrine strata of the lower Permian (lower Cisuralian) Usclas
Formation record ephemeral freezing in equatorial Pangea. These sediments accumulated …

Geology and structure of the Serre Massif upper crust: a look in to the late-Variscan strike–slip kinematics of the Southern European Variscan chain

G Ortolano, M Pagano, R Visalli, G Angì… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new geological-structural map of the southern Serre Massif (SM), in the south-
central part of the Calabrian-Peloritani-Orogen (CPO), is provided. CPO is a ribbon-like …

The Permian-Triassic succession of the Montagnola Senese Ridge (Middle Tuscan Ridge, Italy): a perspective for late Palaeozoic magmatism and continentalisation …

A Brogi, R Regoli, A Spina, E Capezzuoli… - International Geology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT During the Permian-Triassic transition, dramatic environmental changes
occurred, including the segmentation of Pangaea and the beginning of the Alpine orogenic …