Iberia

From supercontinent to superplate: Late Paleozoic Pangea's inner deformation suggests it was a short-lived superplate
The supercontinent cycle explains how landmasses amalgamate into supercontinents that dismember after a ~ 100 Myr tenure in a …
Daniel Pastor-Galán
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Palaeomagnetism from multi-orogenic terranes is ‘not a simple game’: Pyrenees' Palaeozoic warning
Palaeomagnetism is a versatile tool in the Earth sciences: it provides critical input to geological timescales and plate tectonic …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Oscar Groenhof, Emilio L. Pueyo, Esther Izquierdo-Llavall, Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Mark J. Dekkers
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Neoproterozoic-Palaeozoic detrital sources in the Variscan foreland of northern Iberia: primary vs. recycled sediments
The Cantabrian Zone, in the Variscan belt of Western Europe, has one of the most continuous Ediacaran-Palaeozoic stratigraphic …
Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Alicia López-Carmona, Elena Núñez-Guerrero, A. Martínez García, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, E. Bernárdez, Juan Ramón Colmenero, Mandy Hofmann, Ulf Linnemann
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Avalonia, get bent! – Paleomagnetism from SW Iberia confirms the Greater Cantabrian Orocline
The amalgamation of Pangea formed the contorted Variscan-Alleghanian orogen, suturing Gondwana and Laurussia during the Carboniferous. …
Bruno Daniel Leite Mendes, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Mark J. Dekkers, Wout Krijgsman
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New kinematic constraints on the Ibero-Armorican orocline: a paleomagnetic study from the Peñalba syncline and the Truchas Synform, NW Spain
The Cantabrian orocline is a large structure that bends the Variscan orogen of Western Europe in NW Iberia. The extensively studied …
Javier Fernández-Lozano, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Piedad Franco
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