Mid-Mesozoic closure of Permo-Triassic Tethys and its implications

Auteur :
SENGOR, A. M. C.

Description :
Data from the northern Tethyan domain indicate that Permo-Triassic Palaeo-Tethys closed between the late Triassic and the mid-Jurassic. This closure was caused by the collision with Laurasia of a Cimmerian continent rifted away from northen Gondwana land during the Triassic. The Neo-Tethys may have opened partly as a back-arc basin over the Palaeo-Tethyan subduction zone and rotation of the Cimmerian continent may have been partially responsible for mid-Mesozoic block faulting in extra-Alpine central Europe.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Nature London, 1979, vol. 279, n°. 5714, p. 590-593, Références bibliographiques : 54 réf.

Date :
1979