Orocline

Bending the Sierra Madre Oriental":" A Paleocene Orocline
The Sierra Madre Oriental belt of the Mexican thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belt, which formed during the Late Cretaceous due to the …
Rafael Guerra-Roel, Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, José Jorge Aranda Gómez, Mark J. Dekkers, Gerardo Patiño Méndez, Daniel Pastor-Galán
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Bending the Sierra Madre Oriental":" A Paleocene Orocline
The Sierra Madre Oriental Orocline: Paleomagnetism of the Nazas Province in NE Mexico
The geological history of the American Cordillera is complex due to its extensive geological history. We have investigated a section of this Pacific-Panthalassa region: the remarkable curved sector of the Mexican Fold and Thrust Belt in northeastern Mexico. This winding area, known as the Sierra Madre Oriental, potentially holds important clues about the evolution of the North American crust. To contribute to a better understanding of this area and to complement the scarce geophysical and geological studies, we used the magnetic properties of rocks and reviewed existing published research to investigate. We’ve uncovered a complex history of rock magnetizations with at least two main events dating back to the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Our findings also reveal that these mountain ranges were rotated from their original position on vertical axes, suggesting they were originally linear and were bent or buckled during the period from approximately 120 to 50 million years ago.
Rafael Guerra-Roel, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, César Francisco Ramírez-Peña, José Jorge Aranda Gómez, Gerardo Patiño Méndez, R. Geovanny Nova, Alejandro Rodríguez-Parra, Roberto Stanley Molina-Garza
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The Sierra Madre Oriental Orocline: Paleomagnetism of the Nazas Province in NE Mexico
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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