Two plates—many subduction zones: the Variscan orogeny reconsidered

U Kroner, RL Romer - Gondwana Research, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The Variscides of Europe and N-Africa are the result of the convergence of the plates of
Gondwana and Laurussia in the Paleozoic. This orogen is characterized by the juxtaposition …

[HTML][HTML] The provenance of Danubian loess

K Fenn, IL Millar, JA Durcan, DSG Thomas… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
With one of the largest watersheds in Europe draining complex geological terrains within the
Alps, Bohemian Massif, Carpathians, Dinarides, and the Balkan Mountains, the Danube …

Intra-oceanic arc growth driven by magmatic and tectonic processes recorded in the Neoproterozoic Bougmane arc complex (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

A Triantafyllou, J Berger, JM Baele, O Bruguier… - Precambrian …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The Bougmane complex forms a Neoproterozoic tectonic unit located south of the Bou Azzer
ophiolite in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas orogen. We show here that it corresponds to the lower …

A tale of two signals: Global and local influences on the Late Pleistocene loess sequences in Bulgarian Lower Danube

K Fenn, DSG Thomas, JA Durcan, IL Millar… - Quaternary Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In Central and Eastern Europe, research has been focused on loess associated
with a plateau-setting, which preserves distinct and well-developed loess and palaeosol …

New evidence for Alpine overprint of poly-deformed gneisses in the 'Median Dacides' of SE Europe: restoring polyphase deformations and transposition cycles

D Spahić, M Radović, D Blagojević… - International Geology …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
The outcrop and microscale structural constraints on metamorphosed fragments of
Carpathian-Balkan exotic north Gondwanan continental crust show sequential recurrent …

Deformation and magnetic fabrics in ductile shear zones: A review

EC Ferré, A Gébelin, JL Till, C Sassier, KC Burmeister - Tectonophysics, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) is a well-established petrofabric
tool for indicating relative strain and microstructural character and has been validated on …

Petrology, geochemistry and Sm-Nd analyses on the Balkan-Carpathian Ophiolite (BCO–Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria): Remnants of a Devonian back-arc basin in the …

G Plissart, C Monnier, H Diot, M Mărunţiu, J Berger… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The pre-Alpine basement of the Southern Carpathians/Western Balkans contains four
ophiolitic massifs dismembered by Alpine tectonics, which define the “Balkan-Carpathian …

Primordial geodynamics of Southern Carpathian-Balkan basements (Serbo-Macedonian Mass): Avalonian vs. Cadomian arc segments

D Spahić, T Gaudenyi - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 2019‏ - Elsevier
This review deals with a highly complex set of dismembered peri-Gondwanan exotic
polymetamorphic basement systems accommodated outside of the well-explored European …

Evidence of Variscan and Alpine tectonics in the structural and thermochronological record of the central Serbo-Macedonian Massif (south-eastern Serbia)

MD Antić, A Kounov, B Trivić, R Spikings… - international Journal of …, 2017‏ - Springer
Abstract The Serbo-Macedonian Massif (SMM) represents a composite crystalline belt within
the Eastern European Alpine orogen, outcrop** from the Pannonian basin in the north to …

new insights into the building of the Variscan Belt in eastern europe (romania, Serbia, Bulgaria)

G Plissart, H Diot, C Monnier… - … Society, London, Special …, 2019‏ - lyellcollection.org
The basement of the Alpine Upper Danubian/Balkan nappe, dismembered between
Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria, contains evidence of the Variscan orogenic evolution (Lower …