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Late Precambrian and Palaeozoic Evolution of the Alpine Basement — An Overview

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Pre-Mesozoic Geology in the Alps

Abstract

Situated between Gondwana and Laurussia, the pre-Mesozoic Alpine basement registered all the main orogenic periods since the Precambrian. During this long evolution, rifting, asymmetric drift, strike-slip tectonics, and rotation led to the stepwise transformation of Gondwana-type pieces (microcontinents detached from Gondwana) and to their final collision in the Variscan orogenic belt from Late Devonian to Carboniferous time.

Geochronological data and large-scale comparision of lithologies provide evidence for the existence of a major Late Proterozoic/Early Cambrian oceanic suture which is preserved in the basement units of the actual Penninic domain and adjacent areas, separating a Moldanubian domain (parts of the Helvetic area) from the more “African” bloc (Southern Alps, Austro-Alpine) where Pan-African/Cadomian elements are better preserved.

Basically, most Austro-Alpine sequences formed a Silurian-Devonian passive margin which was separated from the active continental margin of the “Ligerian Cordillera”, the latter including the Helvetic and some Austro-Alpine units. The two domains collided during the Early Carboniferous as part of the south-directed extra-Alpine Variscides.

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von Raumer, J.F., Neubauer, F. (1993). Late Precambrian and Palaeozoic Evolution of the Alpine Basement — An Overview. In: von Raumer, J.F., Neubauer, F. (eds) Pre-Mesozoic Geology in the Alps. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84640-3_37

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