Metamorphic Remnants of the Variscan Orogeny across the Alps and Their Tectonic Significance
Geosciences (Switzerland), 2023 Lithospheric slices preserving pre-Alpine metamorphic imprints are widely described in the Alps. The Variscan parageneses recorded in continental, oceanic, and mantle rocks suggest a heterogeneous metamorphic evolution across the Alpine domains.
Jean-Marc Lardeaux +2 more
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Geochemical and geochronological dataset of rutile from a Variscan metabasite in Sardinia, Italy [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2020 A c. 500 m wide and 1.5 km long body consisting of basic to ultrabasic rocks, metamorphosed up to granulite-facies and retrogressed to amphibolite-facies conditions during the Variscan orogeny, crops out near Olbia (NE Sardinia, Italy).
Gabriele Cruciani +5 more
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From Inventories to Insights: Environmental Gradients Structuring Macro-Moths Assemblages Recorded in Nature Reserves. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe article analyses macro‐moth (Lepidoptera) inventory data from 292 nature reserves across the Czech Republic, comprising 941 species. It examines how reserve characteristics, geographic position and altitude influence species richness, community composition and their associations with species traits.
Kubincová Z +7 more
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The Addition of Felsic Sediments to the Lower Continental Crust During the Variscan Orogeny
Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsLower crustal metasedimentary xenoliths (garnet‐sillimanite granulites) from the Bournac breccia pipe in the Massif Central, France, provide a robust example of sediments transported to depth and incorporated into stable lower continental crust during a ...
M. F. Ringwood +2 more
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Geosciences (Switzerland)In collision belts, the upper plate is generally less deformed than the lower one that underwent syn-metamorphic ductile shearing, and frequently late-collisional crustal melting.
Poujol Marc +2 more
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsIn the French Armorican Massif, the Bretonian phase of the Variscan orogeny has been defined by the Late Devonian (Famennian‐Frasnian) erosion gap, and the Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) syntectonic terrigenous deposits of the l’Huisserie formation in
Wei Lin, Michel Fauré
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Variscan structures and their control on latest to post-Variscan basin architecture: insights from the westernmost Bohemian Massif and southeastern Germany [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2022 The Bohemian Massif exposes structures and metamorphic rocks remnant from the Variscan orogeny in central Europe and is bordered by the Franconian Fault System (FFS) to the west.
H. Fazlikhani, W. Bauer, H. Stollhofen
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Together but separate: decoupled Variscan (late Carboniferous) and Alpine (Late Cretaceous–Paleogene) inversion tectonics in NW Poland [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2022 In Europe, formation of the Palaeozoic Variscan orogenic belt, and the Mesozoic–Cenozoic Alpine–Carpathian orogenic belt led to a widespread inversion events within forelands of both orogenic domains.
P. Krzywiec +5 more
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The enigmatic curvature of Central Iberia and its puzzling kinematics [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2020 The collision between Gondwana and Laurussia that formed the latest supercontinent, Pangea, occurred during Devonian to early Permian times and resulted in a large-scale orogeny that today transects Europe, northwest Africa, and eastern North America ...
D. Pastor-Galán +6 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 Competing end‐member models for the late Paleozoic Variscan orogeny (ca. 360‐290 Ma) alternatively suggest moderate 2–3 km elevations underlain by relatively thin crust (55 km) that supported high 4–5 km elevations.
Ian W. Hillenbrand, Michael L. Williams
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