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Variscan-Appalachian dynamics: The building of the late Paleozoic basement

Edited by José R. Martínez Catalán, Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., Ricardo Arenas, and Florentino Díaz García

Preface		v
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 Alcañices synform (northwestern Iberian Massif) Emilio González Clavijo and José R. Martínez Catalán	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. González del Tánago, R. Arenas, J. Abati, J.R. Martínez Catalán, M. Peinado, and F. Díaz García	37
4.	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, J.L. Paquette, J.F. Santos Zalduegui, and J.I. Gil Ibarguchi	57
5.	Prograde development of corona textures in metagabbros of the Sobrado unit (Ordenes Complex, northwestern Iberian Massif) Ricardo Arenas and José R. Martínez Catalán	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, and 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. Díaz García, J.R. Martínez Catalán, and 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-Fúnez and 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. Galán, F.J. Fernández, and S. Llana-Fúnez	143
10.	Thrust and detachment systems in the Ordenes Complex (northwestern Spain): Implications for the Variscan-Appalachian geodynamics José R. Martínez Catalán, Florentino Díaz García, Ricardo Arenas, Jacobo Abati,Pedro Castiñeiras, Pablo González Cuadra, Juan Gómez Barreiro, and Francisco J. Rubio Pascual	163
11.	Cross section through the central part of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, South Portuguese zone (Spain) Carles Soriano and 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 and Gérard Bossière	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, and 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 González Lodeiro, Inmaculada Expósito Ramos, Antonio Azor, and David Martínez Poyatos	253
17.	Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision Gérard M. Stampfli, Jürgen F. von Raumer, and 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 and James H. Knapp	281
Index		301