A comparison of the petro-tectonic features recorded in the Variscan Massifs scattered throughout the Alps, the Corsica-Sardinia-Maures-Tanneron Massif, the Calabria-Peloritani Arc, and the Northern Apennines, has allowed us to propose that they belonged to the same geodynamic realm until Late Carboniferous time. In the interval 330–300 Ma, the development of a regional dextral strike–slip shear zone, the East Variscan Shear Zone (EVSZ), affected all the massifs, leading to their spatial separation. The EVSZ developed, together with numerous regional shear zones, under a transpressional tectonic regime deriving from the Late Carboniferous collision between Gondwana, peri-Gondwana microcontinents (Armorica and Avalonia), and Laurussia plates. The EVSZ evidently played a key role in the evolution of the subsequent Alpine and Apenninic cycles, acting as a pre-existing tectonic barrier. Our proposed geodynamic reconstruction does not reflect the acquisition of new data, but is based on the analysis and review of the recent geological literature.

The East Variscan Shear Zone: new insights into its role in the Late Carboniferous collision in southern Europe / M. PADOVANO; F.M. ELTER; E. PANDELI; M. FRANCESCHELLI. - In: INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW. - ISSN 0020-6814. - ELETTRONICO. - 54(8):(2012), pp. 957-970. [10.1080/00206814.2011.626120]

The East Variscan Shear Zone: new insights into its role in the Late Carboniferous collision in southern Europe

PANDELI, ENRICO;
2012

Abstract

A comparison of the petro-tectonic features recorded in the Variscan Massifs scattered throughout the Alps, the Corsica-Sardinia-Maures-Tanneron Massif, the Calabria-Peloritani Arc, and the Northern Apennines, has allowed us to propose that they belonged to the same geodynamic realm until Late Carboniferous time. In the interval 330–300 Ma, the development of a regional dextral strike–slip shear zone, the East Variscan Shear Zone (EVSZ), affected all the massifs, leading to their spatial separation. The EVSZ developed, together with numerous regional shear zones, under a transpressional tectonic regime deriving from the Late Carboniferous collision between Gondwana, peri-Gondwana microcontinents (Armorica and Avalonia), and Laurussia plates. The EVSZ evidently played a key role in the evolution of the subsequent Alpine and Apenninic cycles, acting as a pre-existing tectonic barrier. Our proposed geodynamic reconstruction does not reflect the acquisition of new data, but is based on the analysis and review of the recent geological literature.
2012
54(8)
957
970
M. PADOVANO; F.M. ELTER; E. PANDELI; M. FRANCESCHELLI
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