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Evidence for mid-Permian compressive tectonics in Western Europe supported by a comparison with the Alleghanian geodynamic evolution
A.E. Prost,J.F. Becq-Giraudon +1 more
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The final continental collision of Gondwana with the Appalachian-Variscan fold belt during mid-Permian times is evident from (1) the simultaneous deformation of the entire fold belt marked by a thin-skin structural style in the Appalachians and in parts of the Variscan front (Midi Fault), (2) the disruption of the Hercynian zones in Western Europe and (3) left-lateral transcurrent displacement visible in features such as the leucogranite belt in France and associated with thrusting of the Ales, Saint-EAbout:
This article is published in Tectonophysics.The article was published on 1989-11-20. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gondwana & Continental collision.read more
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Permian continental basins in the Southern Alps (Italy) and peri-mediterranean correlations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the Late Carboniferous to Permian continental successions of the Southern Alps can be subdivided into two main tectono-sedimentary cycles, separated by a marked unconformity sealing a Middle Permians time gap, generally estimated at over 10 million years.
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A Permian underplating event in late- to post-orogenic tectonic setting. Evidence from the mafic–ultramafic layered xenoliths from Beaunit (French Massif Central)
Olivier Femenias,Olivier Femenias,Nicolas Coussaert,Bernard Bingen,Martin J. Whitehouse,Jean-Claude C. Mercier,Daniel Demaiffe +6 more
TL;DR: The Puy Beaunit volcano vent, French Massif Central, displays a population of plutonic mafic to ultramafic xenoliths, commonly showing asymmetric, millimetre to centimetre thick, layering as discussed by the authors.
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The infill of a supradetachment(?) basin: the continental to shallow-marine Upper Permian succession in the Dolomites and Carnia (Italy)
Francesco Massari,C. Neri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the upper Permian succession is represented by red beds of Val Gardena Sandstone, grading upwards and eastwards into the evaporitic and carbonate deposits of the Bellerophon Formation.
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Late Precambrian and Palaeozoic Evolution of the Alpine Basement — An Overview
J. F. von Raumer,F. Neubauer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the pre-Mesozoic Alpine basement registered all the main orogenic periods since the Precambrian, where rifting, asymmetric drift, strike-slip tectonics, and rotation led to the stepwise transformation of Gondwana-type pieces and to their final collision in the Variscan Orogenic belt from Late Devonian to Carboniferous time.
Late variscan tectonomagmatic activity in Western Europe and surrounding areas : the Mid-Permian Episode
Jean-Paul Deroin,B. Bonin +1 more
TL;DR: The mid-Permian episode (MPE) was characterised by specific tectonic, magmatic, thermal, and basinal features as discussed by the authors, and the large-scale strike-slip regime evolved from dextral shear in the Late Carboniferous and the Early Permian to sinistral in the mid and late permian.
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Tectonics and plate tectonics model for the Variscan belt of Europe
TL;DR: In this article, a plate tectonics model is presented to explain the tectonometamorphic characteristics of the European Variscides and the subsequent complex intracontinental deformation (380-290 Ma).
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Late Paleozoic strike-slip faulting in southern Europe and northern Africa: Result of a right-lateral shear zone between the Appalachians and the Urals
Francois Arthaud,Philippe Matte +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpreted the late Paleozoic wrench faulting in southern Europe and northern Africa as a right-lateral shear zone induced by the relative motion of two plates, a northern one that includes the Canadian Shield, Greenland, and stable Europe and a southern one that including the African Shield plus an unknown eastern extension.
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Characteristics of thin-skinned style of deformation in the southern Appalachians, and potential hydrocarbon traps
TL;DR: The master decollement is a low-angle thrust in basement rocks beneath the Blue Ridge that extends westward as a detachment fault in the sedimentary rocks of the S. Appalachians as discussed by the authors.
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Character of the Alleghanian orogeny in the southern Appalachians: Part II. Geochronological constraints on the tectonothermal evolution of the eastern Piedmont in South Carolina
TL;DR: A nearly concordant U-Pb zircon age of 550 ± 4 Ma is interpreted to closely date crystallization of the epizonal Little Mountain metatonalite in the southeastern part of the Charlotte belt in South Carolina.
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Character of the Alleghanian orogeny in the southern Appalachians: Part III. Regional tectonic relations
TL;DR: In this paper, the scale and vergence of D 3 anticlinoria in the eastern Piedmont are similar to those of D 2 anticlinia in the western Appalachians which are related to ramping of underlying thrust surfaces.
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