CONTRASTED METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION IN TWO SERIES OF THE VOSGES MASSIF (FRANCE): ARGUMENTS FOR A THRUSTING EVENT OF VARISCAN AGE

P.F. Rey*, J.P. Burg**, J.M. Lardeaux and P. Fluck***


*Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre, ENS Lyon, 69364 LYON Cedex 07, France

**Centre Geologique et Geophysique, USTL, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France

***Laboratoire de Mineralogie et Petrologie, Universite Louis Pasteur, 1 Rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg, France

in: C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris (1989), t.309, Serie II, p.815-821.



ABSTRACT
Thermobarometric data combined with tectonic studies of two metamorphic units in the Vosges Massif, give evidence for two different P-T-t paths. Granulite facies rocks were metamorphosed at relatively high pressure before being thrust onto lower biotite-sillimanite gneisses, probably during the variscan orogen.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This study was financed by the INSU-CNRS (Projet: ECORS-Graben du Rhin seismic profile).


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