Université de Fribourg

Durbachites–Vaugnerites – a geodynamic marker in the central European Variscan orogen

Raumer, Jürgen F. von ; Finger, Fritz ; Veselá, Petra ; Stampfli, Gérard M.

In: Terra Nova, 2014, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 85–95

Durbachites–Vaugnerites are K–Mg-rich magmatic rocks derived from an enriched mantle source. Observed throughout the European Variscan basement, their present-day geographical distribution does not reveal any obvious plate-tectonic context. Published geochronological data show that most durbachites–vaugnerites formed around 335–340 Ma. Plotted in a Visean plate-tectonic reconstruction,...