Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous bimodal volcanic rocks of the Ještěd Range Unit: constraints on the development of the Variscan orogenic wedge

Abstract

Geochemical characteristic of the Devonian to Early Carboniferous rocks of the Ještěd Range unit is given and constraints for the development of the frontal part of the Variscan orogenic wedge are deduced.

Keywords

• acid and basic volcanic rocks
• Devonian
• Early Carboniferous
• Ještěd Range
• geochemistry
• geotectonic setting