Université de Fribourg

Organization of pre-Variscan basement areas at the north-Gondwanan margin

Raumer, Jürgen F. von ; Stampfli, Gérard M. ; Borel, Gilles D. ; Bussy, François

In: International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2002, vol. 91, no. 1, p. 35-52

Pre-Variscan basement elements of Central Europe appear in polymetamorphic domains juxtaposed through Variscan and/or Alpine tectonic events. Consequently, nomenclatures and zonations applied to Variscan and Alpine structures, respectively, cannot be valid for pre-Variscan structures. Comparing pre-Variscan relics hidden in the Variscan basement areas of Central Europe, the Alps included,...