Orocline

Progressive orocline formation in the Eastern Pontides–Lesser Caucasus

The Eastern Pontides–Lesser Caucasus fold–thrust belt displays a peculiar northwards arc-shaped geometry that was defined as an …

Maud J.M. Meijers, Brigitte Smith, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Renzo Dagenaar, Nino Sadradze, Shota Adamia, Lilit Sahakyan, Ara Avagyan, Marc Sosson, Yann Rolland, Cor G. Langereis, Carla Müller

Bootstrapped Total Least Squares orocline test: A robust method to quantify vertical axis rotation patterns in orogens, with examples from the Cantabrian and Aegean oroclines

Most mountain belts on Earth show some degree of curvature in plan view, from a slight bend to horseshoe shapes. Such curvatures may …

Daniel Pastor-Galán, Kieran F. Mulchrone, Mathijs Koymans, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Cor G. Langereis

Paleomagnetism of the Central Iberian bend's hinge: too many oroclines in the Iberian variscides

The Variscan mountain belt in Iberia defines a large “S” shape with the Cantabrian Orocline in the north and the Central Iberian curve, …

Daniel Pastor-Galán, Mark J. Dekkers, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Daniel Brouwer, Thomas Groenewegen, Wout Krijgsman, Javier Fernández-Lozano, Mariano Yenes, Fernando Álvarez-Lobato

New kinematic constraints on the Ibero-Armorican orocline: a paleomagnetic study from the Peñalba syncline and the Truchas Synform, NW Spain

The Cantabrian orocline is a large structure that bends the Variscan orogen of Western Europe in NW Iberia. The extensively studied …

Javier Fernández-Lozano, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Piedad Franco

Supercontinent and Superplate?

NAC2016 poster. It won a poster award in the Dutch Earth Sciences conference.

Daniel Pastor-Galán, Rob van der Voo