Variscan-Appalachian dynamics : the building of the late Paleozoic basement / edited by José R. Martínez Catalán [and others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Martínez Catalán, José Ramón.

Geological Society of America.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Basement Tectonics (15th : 2000 : La Coruña, Spain)

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 364.

Special paper ; 364

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Stratigraphic--Paleozoic--Congresses.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Geology, Structural--Europe--Congresses.

Geology, Structural.

Geology, Structural--East (U.S.)--Congresses.

Paleozoic Geologic Period.

Europe.

East United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 305 pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2002.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Alternative approach to the Variscan Belt in southwestern Europe: Preorogenic paleobiogeographical constraints / Michel Robardet 1

2. Stratigraphic record of preorogenic to synorogenic sedimentation, and tectonic evolution of imbricate units in the Alcanices synform (northwestern Iberian Massif) / Emilio Gonzalez Clavijo, Jose R. Martinez Catalan 17

3. 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, J. Gonzalez del Tanago, R. Arenas, J. Abati, J.R. Martinez Catalan, M. Peinado, F. Diaz Garcia 37

4. Early Devonian suprasubduction-zone ophiolite related to incipient collisional processes in the Western Variscan Belt: The Sierra de Careon unit, Ordenes Complex, Galicia / C. Pin, J.L. Paquette, J.F. Santos Zalduegui, J.I. Gil Ibarguchi 57

5. Prograde development of corona textures in metagabbros of the Sobrado unit (Ordenes Complex, northwestern Iberian Massif) / Ricardo Arenas, Jose R. Martinez Catalan 73

6. Variscan pressure-temperature evolution of garnet pyroxenites and amphibolites in the Baie d'Audierne metamorphic series, Brittany (France) / Harald Lucks, Bernhard Schulz, Claude Audren, Claude Triboulet 89

7. Contrasting high-pressure metabasites from the Santiago unit (Ordenes Complex, northwestern Iberian Massif, Spain) / F.J. Rubio Pascual, R. Arenas, F. Diaz Garcia, J.R. Martinez Catalan, J. Abati 105

8. 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-Funez, A. Marcos 125

9. Tectonic framework of the Cabo Ortegal Complex: A slab of lower crust exhumed in the Variscan orogen (northwestern Iberian Peninsula) / A. Marcos, P. Farias, G. Galan, F.J. Fernandez, S. Llana-Funez 143

10. Thrust and detachment systems in the Ordenes Complex (northwestern Spain): Implications for the Variscan-Appalachian geodynamics / Jose R. Martinez Catalan, Florentino Diaz Garcia, Ricardo Arenas, Jacobo Abati, Pedro Castineiras, Pablo Gonzalez Cuadra, Juan Gomez Barreiro, Francisco J. Rubio Pascual 163

11. Cross section through the central part of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, South Portuguese zone (Spain) / Carles Soriano, Josep Maria Casas 183

12. 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. 199

13. Megadisplacements and the Hercynian orogen of Gondwanan France and Iberia / David Shelley, Gerard Bossiere 209

14. 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, C. Laverne 223

15. Variscides between the Appalachians and the Urals: Similarities and differences between Paleozoic subduction and collision belts / Philippe Matte 239

16. Opposite subduction polarities connected by transform faults in the Iberian Massif and western European Variscides / Fernando Simancas, Francisco Gonzalez Lodeiro, Inmaculada Exposito Ramos, Antonio Azor, David Martinez Poyatos 253

17. Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision / Gerard M. Stampfli, Jurgen F. von Raumer, Gilles D. Borel 263

18. 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, James H. Knapp 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, [2008]. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN:

0813723647

9780813723648

OCLC:

213836444

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.