In orogenic belts, a basal décollement zone often develops at depth to accommodate the shortening due to folding and thrusting of the sedimentary cover. In the Early Mesozoic intracontinental Xuefengshan Belt of South China, such a décollement zone is exposed in the core of anticlines formed by the emplacement of the late-orogenic granitic plutons. The detailed, multi-scale structural analysis ...

Gold in the Ariab district (Red Sea Hills, Sudan) is mined gossans developed over volcanogenic massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits formed context of a Tonian ensimatic arc Haiya terrane, Neoproterozoic Arabo-Nubian Shield. All primary gold occurrences belt, whatever their style (VHMS-, quartz lode- or shear-zone-hosted), appear, however, to have been syn-to late-kinematic, i.e., final Pan-African ...

In the Western Alps, while many P–T constraints are available for high-grade units, dataset low-grade units located along westernmost edge of belt remains scarcer and incomplete. To face these uncertainties, we quantify first time metamorphic peak conditions Marguareis Unit, a fragment European margin (Briançonnais Domain) regarded till now as very-low-grade unit, exposed boundary between Marit...