A rootless suture and the loss of the roots of a mountain chain: The Variscan belt of NW Iberia

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 114-126

  Martínez Catalán, José R ^a   Arenas, Ricardo ^b   Abati, Jacobo ^b   Martínez, Sonia Sánchez ^b   García, Florentino Díaz ^c   Suárez, Javier Fernández ^b   Cuadra, Pablo González ^d   Castiñeiras, Pedro ^b   Barreiro, Juan Gómez ^b   Montes, Alejandro Díez ^e   Clavijo, Emilio González ^e   Pascual, Francisco J Rubio ^e   Andonaegui, Pilar ^b   Jeffries, Teresa E ^f   Alcock, James E ^g   Fernández, Rubén Díez ^a   Carmona, Alicia López ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NW Iberia; Oceanic suture; Rheic Ocean; Variscan evolution

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RIFTING; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 63049115110     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.11.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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