Variscan-Appalachian dynamics the building of the Late Paleozoic basement /

Other Authors: Martínez Catalán, José Ramón., International Conference on Basement Tectonics
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2002.
Physical Description: v, 305 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Series: Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 364.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Alternative approach to the Variscan belt in southwestern Europe: preorogenic paleobiogeographical constraints / Michel Robardet
  • Stratigraphic record of preorogenic to synorogenic sedimentation, and tectonic evolution of imbricate units in the Alcañices synform (northwestern Iberian Massif) / Emilio González Clavijo and José R. Martínez Catalán
  • Tectonic setting of the Monte Castelo gabbro (Ordenes complex, northwestern Iberian Massif): evidence for an arc-related terrane in the hanging wall to the Variscan suture / P. Andonaegui ... [et al.]
  • Early Devonian suprasubduction-zone ophiolite related to incipient collisional processes in the Western Variscan Belt: the Sierra de Careón unit, Ordenes complex, Galicia / C. Pin ... [et al.]
  • Prograde development of corona textures in metagabbros of the Sobrado unit (Ordenes complex, northwestern Iberian Massif) / Ricardo Arenas and José R. Martínez Catalán
  • Variscan pressure-temperature evolution of garnet pyroxenites and amphibolites in the Baie d'Audierne metamorphic series, Brittany (France) / Harald Lucks ... [et al.]
  • Contrasting high-pressure metabasites from the Santiago unit (Ordenes complex, northwestern Iberian Massif, Spain) / F.J. Rubio Pascual ... [et al.]
  • Structural record during exhumation and emplacement of high-pressure
  • low-to intermediate-temperature rocks in the Malpica-Tui unit (Variscan Belt of Iberia) / S. Llana-Fúnez and A. Marcos
  • Tectonic framework of the Cabo Ortegal complex: a slab of lower crust exhumes in the Variscan orogen (northwestern Iberian Peninsula) / A. Marcos ... [et al.]
  • Thrust and detachment systems in the Ordenes complex (northwestern Spain): implications for the Variscan-Appalachian geodynamics / José R. Martínez Catalán ... [et al.]
  • Cross section through the central part of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, south Portuguese zone (Spain) / Carles Soriano and Josep Maria Casa
  • Alleghanian (Appalachian) orogeny, a product of zipper tectonics: rotational transpressive continent-continent collision and closing of ancient oceans along irregular margins / Robert D. Hatcher Jr.
  • Megadisplacements and the Hercynian orogen of Gondwanan France and Iberia / David Shelley and Gérard Bossiére
  • Transcurrent strain partitioning along a suture zone in the Maures massif (France): result of eastern indenter tectonics in European Variscides? / J.-P. Bellot, G. Bronner, and C. Laverne
  • Variscides between the Appalachians and the Urals: similarities and differences between Paleozoic subduction and collision belts / Philippe Matte
  • Opposite subduction polarities connected by transform faults in the Iberian Massif and western European Variscides / Fernando Simancas ... [et al.]
  • Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: from Gondwana to the Variscan collision / Gérard M. Stampfli
  • Review of seismic reflector signatures of crustal deformation in the Appalachian-Caledonide orogen with reference to the Spanish Variscides and the Uralides / John H. McBride and James H. Knapp.