FAURE , Michel

The Massif Central, like the southern part of the Massif Armoricain, belongs to the North Gondwana margin. The Massif Central consists of a stack of nappes resulting of six main tectonic-metamorphic events. The first one, D0, is coeval with an Early Late Silurian (ca 415 Ma) high-pressure (or ultra high-pressure) metamorphism for which the...

In the North China block, the south Liaodong Peninsula massif is an elliptical metamorphic core complex (MCC) with a long axis trending NE‐SW. In cross‐section view, it is asymmetric, with a steeply dipping northwestern flank and a gently dipping southeastern flank. It consists of three lithotectonic units: a gneissic migmatite unit, a Paleo‐...

The Paleozoic French Variscan Belt in Massif Central and Massif Armoricain is a collision belt that provides a good example of a suture zone where ophiolites are rare, and the frontal (i.e., the magmatic arc) part of the upper plate is not present. In the lower plate (or Gondwana), the continental rocks are subdivided into an Upper Gneiss Unit...

The South Liaodong Peninsula massif is the easternmost Mesozoic Metamorphic Core Complex, recognized in Eastern China. It provides a good example of the combination of ductile shearing, synkinematic plutonism and polyphase exhumation. The Jurassic granodioritic plutons, located at the footwall of the detachment normal fault, and dated here at...

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Corresponding to the Early Mesozoic continental subduction between the North China Block (NCB) and the South China Block (SCB), the Tongbaishan-Hong'an- Dabieshan-Sulu massifs are famous for their HP-UHP metamorphism. More than 50% of the HP-UHP Orogenic Belt was significantly reworked by Early Cretaceous extensional tectonics. This Early...

Orogens develop in convergent settings involving twoor more continental and/or oceanic plates. They are tra-ditionally defined as zones of crustal deformation associ-ated with mountain building resulting from either accretionof a terrane and/or an arc, continent-continent collision or rift-inversion. However, this definition does not...

Orogens develop in convergent settings involving twoor more continental and/or oceanic plates. They are traditionally defined as zones of crustal deformation associated with mountain building resulting from either accretionof a terrane and/or an arc, continent-continent collisionor rift-inversion. However, this definition does not considerthe...