Palaeozoic history of the Armorican Massif: Models for the tectonic evolution of the suture zones |
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| Authors: | Michel Ballèvre Valérie Bosse Céline Ducassou Pavel Pitra |
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| Institution: | 1. Géosciences Rennes (UMR-CNRS 6118), université de Rennes-1, 35042 Rennes cedex, France;2. Laboratoire magmas et volcans (UMR-CNRS 6524), observatoire de physique du globe de Clermont-Ferrand, université Blaise-Pascal – Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France |
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| Abstract: | The Armorican Massif (western France) provides an excellent record of the Palaeozoic history of the Variscan belt. Following the Late Neoproterozoic Cadomian orogeny, the Cambro-Ordovician rifting was associated with oceanic spreading. The Central- and North-Amorican domains (which together constitute the core of the Armorica microplate) are bounded by two composite suture zones. To the north, the Léon domain (correlated with the “Normannian High” and the “Mid-German Crystalline Rise” in the Saxo-Thuringian Zone) records the development of a nappe stack along the northern suture zone, and was backthrusted over the central-Armorican domain during the Carboniferous. To the south, an intermediate block (“Upper Allochthon”) records a complex, polyorogenic history, with an early high-temperature event followed by the first generation of eclogites (Essarts). This intermediate block overthrusts to the north the Armorica microplate (Saint-Georges-sur-Loire), to the south: (i) relics of an oceanic domain; and (ii) the Gondwana palaeomargin. The collision occurred during a Late Devonian event, associated with a second generation of eclogites (Cellier). |
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