Geodynamic evolution of the European Variscan fold belt: palaeomagnetic and geological constraints

SHRIMP dating of zircons from high-grade metasediments of the Schwarzwald/SW-Germany and implications for the evolution of the Moldanubian basement

“…This fits well to the concept of a Neoproterozoic active margin setting along the entire length of the future Palaeozoic microcontinents at the northern margin of Gondwana (e.g. Tait et al 1997Tait et al , 2000So¨llner et al 1997;Matte 2001;von Raumer et al 2002;Stampfli et al 2002 and references therein). In Fig.…”

Provenance of Pleistocene Rhine River Middle Terrace sands between the Swiss–German border and Cologne based on U–Pb detrital zircon ages

“…The Hun Superterrane includes all continental fragments, which were in lateral continuity with Avalonia along the Gondwana margin and accreted to Laurussia between the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous. The western part of the Hun Terrane coincides with the Armorican Terrane (van der Voo 1979; Tait et al 1997;Stampfli et al 2002) which also records widespread and predominantly felsic volcanism and intrusive activity connected to continental rifting (Floyd et al 2000;Schätz et al 2002;Martin et al 2003;Kryza and Zalasiewicz 2008;Linnemann et al 2008;Bahlburg et al 2010).…”

“…At the end of the Neoproterozoic and during the Early Cambrian, periGondwanan terranes drifted toward the north, either as separate entities or as parts of Africa (Robardet 2003;Tait et al 1997;Linnemann et al 2004Linnemann et al , 2007 and were reassembled during the Caledonian and Variscan orogenies (e.g., Kroner et al 2007;Krawczyk et al 2008;Nance et al 2010;Zeh and Gerdes 2010). In the Early Middle Jurassic, major rifting phases led to the formation of continental rift zones and the opening of the Alpine Tethys and the North Sea (Ziegler and Dèzes 2006;Robertson 2007).…”

A jawed polychaete fauna from the late Ludlow Kozlowskii event interval in the Prague Basin (Czech Republic)

“…Torsvik et al 1992, Cocks & Torsvik 2002. The position of Perunica is less well constrained, but according to Tait et al (1997), Cocks & Torsvik (2002) and Fatka & Mergl (2009) it was situated in more temperate climates in the peri-Gondwanan area at ca 30°S. Havlíček (1999) argued, based on benthic faunas (brachiopods, trilobites and other fossils), that Perunica was much closer to Baltica than any other region of Gondwana, specifying its position to the northeastern corner of peri-Gondwana.…”