Orocline

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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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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The enigmatic curvature of Central Iberia and its puzzling kinematics
The collision between Gondwana and Laurussia that formed the latest supercontinent, Pangea, occurred during Devonian to early Permian …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Arlo B. Weil
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Post-Eocene coupled oroclines in the Talesh (NW Iran): Paleomagnetic constraints
The Talesh Mountains (NW Iran) witnessed a long deformation history from the Triassic Cimmerian orogeny to the ongoing Arabia-Eurasia …
Mahnaz Rezaeian, Chris Kuiper, Annique van der Boon, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Laura Cotton, Cor G. Langerais, Wout Krijgsman
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Towards FAIR Paleomagnetic Data Management Through Paleomagnetism.org 2.0
Scientific communities are placing an increasing emphasis on the implementation of data management protocols concerning data archiving …
Mathijs Koymans, Doue J.J. van Hinsbergen, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Bram Vaes, Cor G. Langerais
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Late/post Variscan orocline formation and widespread magmatism
The Paleozoic geology of Iberia is dominated by the tectonics of the Variscan orogeny and its aftermath. This defining geologic event …
Arlo B. Weil, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Stephen T. Johnston, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso
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Tangled up in folds: tectonic significance of superimposed folding at the core of the Central Iberian curve (West Iberia)
The amalgamation of Pangea during the Carboniferous produced a winding mountain belt: the Variscan orogen of West Europe. In the …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Ícaro Fróis Dias da Silva, Thomas Groenewegen, Wout Krijgsman
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Late Paleozoic Iberian Orocline(s) and the Missing Shortening in the Core of Pangea. Paleomagnetism From the Iberian Range
Supercontinents are usually interpreted to be single and rigid continental plates. How and when Pangea became a rigid supercontinent is …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Emilio L. Pueyo, Mark Diederen, Cristina García‐Lasanta, Cor G. Langereis
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Quantifying Arabia–Eurasia convergence accommodated in the Greater Caucasus by paleomagnetic reconstruction
Since the late Eocene, convergence and subsequent collision between Arabia and Eurasia was accommodated both in the overriding Eurasian …
Annique van der Boon, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Mahnaz Rezaeian, Deryan Gürer, Maryam Honarmand, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Wout Krijgsman, Cor G. Langereis
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Paleomagnetism in Extremadura (Central Iberian Zone, Spain)
Introduction: The winding Variscan belt in Iberia, featuring the Cantabrian orocline (NW Iberia) and the Central Iberian curve, is a …
Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Mark J. Dekkers, Cor G. Langereis
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