Caledonian and late Caledonian Europe: a working hypothesis involving two contrasted compressional/extensional scenarios

• Published in: Estudios Geológicos
• Main Authors: Doblas, M., Oyarzun, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 1990
• Subjects: Caledonian; late Caledonian; extensional province; inversion tectonics; Caledónico; Tardicaledónico; provincia extensional; tectónica de inversión; Noruega; Groenlandia
• Online Access: http://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/453; https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.90463-4453

The tectonomagmatic and metamorphic structuration of the European Caledonian realm suggests that two mutually perpendicular compressional/extensional scenarios developed during the Ordovician-Devonian time-span. As a result of the mid Ordovician Grampian compressional scheme (Caledonian s.s.), a maj...