Université de Fribourg

Ediacaran to Cambrian oceanic rocks of the Gondwana margin and their tectonic interpretation

Raumer, Jürgen F. von ; Stampfli, Gérard M. ; Arenas, Ricardo ; Martínez, Sonia Sánchez

In: International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2015, p. 1–15

In tectonic maps of Variscan Europe, allochthonous pieces of Cadomian basement clearly stand out with their predominant metabasic to ultrabasic elements, the so-called exotic terranes with ophiolites. Most of these domains are observed in basements of the Central Iberian Allochthone, the South Armorican domain, the nappe structures of the French Massif Central, the Saxothuringian Zone and the...