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Late Palaeozoic — Early Mesozoic Plate Reorganization: Evolution and Demise of the Variscan Fold Belt

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Closure of the Proto-Tethys Proto-Atlantic Ocean was diachronous along the Variscan-Appalachian fold belt. Collision of Gondwana and Laurussia commenced in Famennian-Visean time in the western Mediterranean domain and propagated during the Late Carboniferous westwards and eastwards. By Westphalian time the Proto-Atlantic was closed. In the European Variscan fold belt, orogenic activity terminated at the end of the Westphalian. Development of Stephanian-Autunian wrench-fault systems, dissecting the Variscan fold belt, can be related to a change in the convergence direction between Gondwana and Laurussia during their terminal Alleghenian suturing phase. This was followed by a fundamental plate boundary reorganization and the development of a new tensional regime in the interior of Pangea. Late Permian and Triassic southward propagation of the Arctic-North-Atlantic rift system and westward propagation of the Tethys rift system involved tensional reactivation of Permo-Carboniferous crustal discontinuities. During the Mid-Jurassic a new divergent-transform plate boundary was established between Laurasia and Gondwana.

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Ziegler, P.A. (1993). Late Palaeozoic — Early Mesozoic Plate Reorganization: Evolution and Demise of the Variscan Fold Belt. In: von Raumer, J.F., Neubauer, F. (eds) Pre-Mesozoic Geology in the Alps. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84640-3_12

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