Lithospheric foundering

Diachronous post‐orogenic magmatism within a developing orocline in Iberia, European Variscides

The amalgamation of Pangea during the Carboniferous produced a winding mountain belt: the Variscan orogen of West Europe. In the Iberian Peninsula, this tortuous geometry is dominated by two major structures: the Cantabrian Orocline, to the north, …