The formation of Pangea

GM Stampfli, C Hochard, C Vérard, C Wilhem - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The making of Pangea is the result of large-scale amalgamation of continents and micro-
continents, which started at the end of the Neoproterozoic with the formation of Gondwana …

[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 …

Evolution of the Rheic ocean

RD Nance, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, JD Keppie… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Rheic Ocean, which separated Laurussia from Gondwana following the closure of
Iapetus, is arguably the most important ocean of the Palaeozoic. Its suture extends from …

Tectonic evolution and global crustal architecture of the European Variscan belt constrained by geophysical data

K Schulmann, JB Edel, JRM Catalán, S Mazur… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A brief history of the Rheic Ocean

RD Nance, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, JD Keppie… - Geoscience …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Rheic Ocean was one of the most important oceans of the Paleozoic Era. It lay between
Laurentia and Gondwana from the Early Ordovician and closed to produce the vast Ouachita …

A plate tectonic scenario for the Iapetus and Rheic oceans

M Domeier - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
The tectonics, dynamics, and biogeographic landscape of the early Paleozoic were
dominated by the opening and expansion of one large ocean—the Rheic—and the …

Are the oroclines of the Variscan belt related to late Variscan strike‐slip tectonics?

JR Martínez Catalán - Terra nova, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Terra Nova, 23, 241–247, 2011 Abstract Early Variscan structures and magnetic anomalies
delineate four oroclines along the Variscan belt. The arcs bend the lithostratigraphic zones …

Diachronous post‐orogenic magmatism within a develo** orocline in Iberia, European Variscides

G Gutiérrez‐Alonso, J Fernández‐Suárez… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
U‐Pb (zircon) crystallization ages of 52 late‐Variscan granitoid intrusions from NW Iberia (19
from new data, 33 from previous studies) constrain the lithospheric evolution of this realm of …

Early Paleozoic or Early-Middle Triassic collision between the South China and Indochina blocks: The controversy resolved? Structural insights from the Kon Tum …

M Faure, LTT Hoai, C Lepvrier - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In Central Vietnam, the Kontum massif is subdivided from North to South into:(i)
Kham Duc,(ii) Ngoc Linh,(iii) Kan Nack complexes. The Kham Duc complex consists of …

From a bipartite Gondwanan shelf to an arcuate Variscan belt: The early Paleozoic evolution of northern Peri-Gondwana

T Stephan, UWE Kroner, RL Romer, D Rösel - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleozoic Variscan Orogen of Europe and North Africa comprises
reworked Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic crust of the northern Gondwanan shelf that …