A rootless suture and the loss of the roots of a mountain chain: The Variscan belt of NW Iberia

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José R. Martı́nez Catalán1, Ricardo Arenas2, Jacobo Abati2, Sonia Sánchez Martı́nez2, Florentino Díaz García3, Javier Fernández‐Suárez2, P. González Cuadra4, Pedro Castiñeiras2, Juan Gómez Barreiro2, Alejandro Díez Montes5, Emílio González Clavijo5, Francisco J. Rubio Pascual6, Pilar Andonaegui Moreno2, Teresa E. Jeffries7, James E. Alcock8, Rubén Díez Fernández1, Alicia López-Carmona2
1Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
2Departamento de Petrología y Geoquímica and Instituto de Geología Económica (CSIC), Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
3Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, 33005 Oviedo, Spain
4Área de Geodinámica Externa, Universidad de León, 24007 León, Spain
5Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Azafranal 48, 37001 Salamanca, Spain
6Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, La Calera 1, 28760 Tres Cantos, Spain
7Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
8Department of Geosciences, Abington College, Pennsylvania State University, Abington, PA 19001, USA

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