Rapid burial and exhumation during orogeny: Thickening and synconvergent exhumation of thermally weakened and thinned crust (variscan orogen in western Europe)

Abstract

Thermally softened crust serve as a precursor of subsequently thickened continental domain. Petrology, geochronology, structral geology and numerical modelling arguments.

Keywords

• Central Vosges
• rheology
• numerical modelling
• geochronology