Publications

Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Alicia López-Carmona, Javier Fernández-Suárez (2026). Cadomian Igneous Rocks in the Retroarc Foreland Domains of the Narcea Antiform. Cadomian Igneous Rocks in the Retroarc Foreland Domains of the Narcea Antiform. In: Álvaro, J.J., Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds) The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham..

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Mallickarjun Joshi, Biraja P. Das, Shubham Patel, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Naresh C. Pant, A. Krishnakanta Singh, Govind Oinam, Alok Kumar, Ankit Kumar (2026). A ∼1.6 Ga accretionary event in the polymetamorphic Lesser Himalaya, India: Insights into late-stage assembly of the Columbia supercontinent. Precambrian Research, 435, 108038, 2026..

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Rafael Guerra-Roel, Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, José Jorge Aranda Gómez, Mark J. Dekkers, Gerardo Patiño Méndez, Daniel Pastor-Galán (2025). Bending the Sierra Madre Oriental":" A Paleocene Orocline. Tectonics, 2025, e2025TC008856.

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Munkhdelger Bold, Tatsuki Tsujimori, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Tatsuro Adachi, Nobuhiko Nakano, Yasuhito Osanai (2025). Tectono-magmatic evolution of the Mongolian Collage with new evidence from the Ereendavaa Block. Gondwana Research, 2025, 276-300.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Alicia López-Carmona, Mahnaz Rezaeian, Tatsuki Tsujimori, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Keewook Yi, Cor Langereis (2025). From Rheic to Paleotethys ":" Subduction history of the Shanderman Eclogites (NW Iran). GGSA Bulletin (2025) 137 (9-10): 4478–4496..

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Daniel Pastor-Galán (2024). Paleomagnetism.org: all that is new and all your requests.

Daniel Pastor-Galán (2024). How fast is too fast? Izanagi's roll-back on the run.

Mingshuai Zhu, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Matthijs A. Smit, Laicheng Miao, Fuqin Zhang, Dorjgochoo Snchir, Ariuntsegtseg Ganbat, Chenghao Liu, Ye Luo, Shun Li (2024). Ophiolites in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt record Cambrian subduction initiation processes. Commun Earth Environ 5, 753 (2024).

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Rafael Guerra-Roel, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, César Francisco Ramírez-Peña, José Jorge Aranda Gómez, Gerardo Patiño Méndez, R. Geovanny Nova, Alejandro Rodríguez-Parra, Roberto Stanley Molina-Garza (2024). The Sierra Madre Oriental Orocline: Paleomagnetism of the Nazas Province in NE Mexico. JGR-SE, 129, e2024JB029239.

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Mingshuai Zhu, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Matthijs A. Smit, Dorjgochoo Snchir, Fuqin Zhang, Chenghao Liu, Ye Luo, Laicheng Miao (2024). The Beginning of a Wilson Cycle in an Accretionary Orogen. The Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean Opened Assisted by a Devonian Mantle Plume. GRL, 51, e2024GL109028.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán (2023). Reconstructing Late Paleozoic Pangea's Inner Deformation: Supercontinent or Superplate?.

Suzanna van de Lagemaat, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Bas B.G. Zanderink, Maria J.Z. Villareal, John W. Jenson, Mark J. Dekkers, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen (2023). A critical reappraisal of paleomagnetic evidence for Philippine Sea Plate rotation. Tectonophysics, 863, 20, 230010.

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Mingshuai Zhu, Zhiyong Yan, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Lin Chen, Laicheng Miao, Fuqin Zhang, Shun Li, Shuhu Yang (2023). Do microcontinents nucleate subduction initiation?. Geology, 51 (7): 668–672.

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Mingshuai Zhu, John Wakabayashi, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Fuqin Zhang, Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Laicheng Miao, Shun Li, Shunhu Yang, Zeli Wang (2023). Large-scale Permo-Triassic back-arc extensions of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean. GSA Bulletin, February 2023.

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Mingshuai Zhu, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Laicheng Miao, Fuqin Zhang, Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Shun Li, Shunhu Yang, Zeli Wang (2023). Evidence for early Pennsylvanian subduction initiation in the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean from the Adaatsag ophiolite (Mongolia). Lithos Volumes 436–437, 106951.

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Mingshuai Zhu, Fuqin Zhang, Mathijs Smit, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Carl Guilmette, Laicheng Miao, Yi Zou, Shunhu Yang, Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Lorraine Tual, Zeli Wang (2023). Discovery of a >1,000 km Cambrian Eclogite-Bearing High-Pressure Metamorphic Belt in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications for the Final Closure of the Pan-Rodinian Ocean. JGR-SE 128, e2022JB025388.

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Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Tatsuki Tsujimori, Laicheng Miao, Inna Safonova, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Chimedtseren Anaadb, Shogo Aoki, Kazumasa Aoki, Munkhnasan Chimedsuren (2022). Age, petrogenesis, and tectonic implications of the late Permian magmatic rocks in the Middle Gobi volcanoplutonic Belt, Mongolia. Island Arc. 2022;31:e12457.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán (2022). From supercontinent to superplate: Late Paleozoic Pangea's inner deformation suggests it was a short-lived superplate. Earth-Science Reviews, 226, 103918.

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Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Tatsuki Tsujimori, Laicheng Miao, Inna Safonova, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Chimedtseren Anaadb, Munkhtsengel Baatarb, Shogo Aoki, Kazumasa Aoki, Ilya Savinskiy (2021). Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic granitoids in the Khangay-Khentey basin, Central Mongolia: Implication for the tectonic evolution of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean margin. LITHOS 404–405, 2021.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Oscar Groenhof, Emilio L. Pueyo, Esther Izquierdo-Llavall, Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Mark J. Dekkers (2021). Palaeomagnetism from multi-orogenic terranes is ‘not a simple game’: Pyrenees' Palaeozoic warning. GJI, 227-2, 849–874.

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Ariuntsetseg Ganbat, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Naoto Hirano, Norihiro Nakamura, Hirochika Sumino, Yuji Yamaguchi, Tatsuki Tsujimori (2021). Cretaceous to Miocene NW Pacific Plate Kinematic Constraints: Paleomagnetism and Ar–Ar Geochronology in the Mineoka Ophiolite Mélange (Japan). Gondwana Research IN PRESS.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Christopher Spencer, Tan Furukawa, Tatsuki Tsujimori (2021). Evidence for crustal removal, tectonic erosion and flare-ups from the Japanese evolving forearc sediment provenance. EPSL, 564, 116893.

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Ariuntsegtseg Ganbat, Tatsuki Tsujimori, Nelson Boniface, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Shogo Aoki Ganbat, Kazumasa Aoki (2021). Crustal evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Ubendian Belt (SW Tanzania) western margin: A Central African Shield amalgamation tale. Gondwana Research, 91, 286-306.

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Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Alicia López-Carmona, Elena Núñez-Guerrero, A. Martínez García, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, E. Bernárdez, Juan Ramón Colmenero, Mandy Hofmann, Ulf Linnemann (2021). Neoproterozoic-Palaeozoic detrital sources in the Variscan foreland of northern Iberia: primary vs. recycled sediments. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 563-588.

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Shota Mtsunaga, Tatsuki Tsujimori, Atsushi Miyashita, Shogo Aoki, Kazumasa Aoki, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Keewook Yi (2021). Reappraisal of the oldest high-pressure type schist in Japan: New zircon U-Pb age of the Kitomyo Schist of the Kurosegawa Belt. Lithos, 380–381, 105898.

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Bruno Daniel Leite Mendes, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Mark J. Dekkers, Wout Krijgsman (2021). Avalonia, get bent! – Paleomagnetism from SW Iberia confirms the Greater Cantabrian Orocline. Geosciences Frontiers, 12, 2, 2021, 805-825.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Arlo B. Weil (2020). The enigmatic curvature of Central Iberia and its puzzling kinematics. Solid Earth.

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Mahnaz Rezaeian, Chris Kuiper, Annique van der Boon, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Laura Cotton, Cor G. Langerais, Wout Krijgsman (2020). Post-Eocene coupled oroclines in the Talesh (NW Iran): Paleomagnetic constraints. Tectonophysics, 786, 2, 228459.

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Mathijs Koymans, Doue J.J. van Hinsbergen, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Bram Vaes, Cor G. Langerais (2020). Towards FAIR Paleomagnetic Data Management Through Paleomagnetism.org 2.0. Gcubed, 21, 2, e2019GC008838.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, R. Damian Nance, J. Brendan Murphy, Christopher J. Spencer (2019). Supercontinents: myths, mysteries, and milestones. GSLSP, 470.

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Arlo B. Weil, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Stephen T. Johnston, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso (2019). Late/post Variscan orocline formation and widespread magmatism. In The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach (pp. 527-542).

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Ícaro Fróis Dias da Silva, Thomas Groenewegen, Wout Krijgsman (2019). Tangled up in folds: tectonic significance of superimposed folding at the core of the Central Iberian curve (West Iberia). International Geology Review, 61:2, 240-255.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Emilio L. Pueyo, Mark Diederen, Cristina García‐Lasanta, Cor G. Langereis (2018). Late Paleozoic Iberian Orocline(s) and the Missing Shortening in the Core of Pangea. Paleomagnetism From the Iberian Range. Tectonics, 37, 3877–3892.

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Annique van der Boon, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Mahnaz Rezaeian, Deryan Gürer, Maryam Honarmand, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Wout Krijgsman, Cor G. Langereis (2018). Quantifying Arabia–Eurasia convergence accommodated in the Greater Caucasus by paleomagnetic reconstruction. EPSL, 482, 454-469.

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Maud J.M. Meijers, Brigitte Smith, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Renzo Dagenaar, Nino Sadradze, Shota Adamia, Lilit Sahakyan, Ara Avagyan, Marc Sosson, Yann Rolland, Cor G. Langereis, Carla Müller (2017). Progressive orocline formation in the Eastern Pontides–Lesser Caucasus. GSLSP, 428.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Mark J. Dekkers, Cor G. Langereis (2017). Paleomagnetism in Extremadura (Central Iberian Zone, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology, 43, 4, 583–600.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Kieran F. Mulchrone, Mathijs Koymans, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Cor G. Langereis (2017). Bootstrapped Total Least Squares orocline test: A robust method to quantify vertical axis rotation patterns in orogens, with examples from the Cantabrian and Aegean oroclines. Lithosphere (2017) 9 (3): 499-511.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán (2017). Remagnetization during orocline formation. A Carboniferous tale from the Iberian peninsula.

Daniel Pastor-Galán, Mark J. Dekkers, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Daniel Brouwer, Thomas Groenewegen, Wout Krijgsman, Javier Fernández-Lozano, Mariano Yenes, Fernando Álvarez-Lobato (2016). Paleomagnetism of the Central Iberian bend's hinge: too many oroclines in the Iberian variscides. Gondwana Research.

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Mathijs Koymans, Cor G. Langereis, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen (2016). Paleomagnetism.org: an online multi-platform open source environment for paleomagnetic data analysis. Computers and Geosciences, 93, 127-137.

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Javier Fernández-Lozano, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Piedad Franco (2016). New kinematic constraints on the Ibero-Armorican orocline: a paleomagnetic study from the Peñalba syncline and the Truchas Synform, NW Spain. Tectonophysics, 681, 195–208.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Rob van der Voo (2016). Supercontinent and Superplate?. Prize awarded poster from NAC14 (2016).

Daniel Pastor-Galán (2016). A Pangea's simple twist of fate.

Daniel Pastor-Galán, Bart Ursem, Patrick Meere, Cor G. Lanereis (2015). Extending the Cantabrian Orocline to two continents (Gondwana and Laurussia). Paleomagnetism from South Ireland. . EPSL, 432, pp.223-231.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Thomas Groenewegen, Daniel Brouwer, Wout Krijgsman, Mark Dekkers (2015). One or two oroclines in the Variscan orogen of Iberia? Implications for Pangea amalgamation. Geology 43-6, 527-530.

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Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Stephen T. Johnston, Ulf Linnemann, Mandy Hofmann, Jessica Shaw, Juan Ramón Colmenero, P. Hernández (2015). Significance of detrital zircons in Siluro-Devonian rocks from Iberia. Journal of the Geological Society, 172, 309-322.

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Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Alan S. Collins, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Emilio González-Clavijo, Fred Jourdan, Arlo B. Weil, Stephen T. Johnston (2015). Dating of lithospheric buckling: 40Ar/39Ar ages of syn-orocline strike-slip shear zones in northwestern Iberia. Tectonophysics, 643, 44-54..

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Germán Martín-Merino, Diego Corrochano (2014). Timing and structural evolution in the limb of an orocline: the Pisuerga-Carrión Unit (southern limb of the Cantabrian Orocline, NW Spain). Tectonophysics, 622, 110–121.

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Javier Fernández-Suárez, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Mandy Hofmann, J. Brendan Murphy, Ulf Linnemann (2014). The Ediacaran-Early Cambrian detrital zircon record of NW Iberia. Possible sources and paleogeographic constraints.. International Journal of Earth Sciences 103, 5, 1335-1357.

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Jessica Shaw, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Stephen T. Johnston, Daniel Pastor-Galán (2014). Provenance variability along the Early Ordovician north Gondwana margin: Paleogeographic and tectonic implications of U-Pb detrital zircon ages from the Armorican Quartzite of the Iberian Variscan belt. GSA Bulletin (2014) 126 (5-6): 702-719.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Javier Fernández-Suárez, J. Brendan Murphy, Fernando Nieto (2013). Tectonic evolution of NW Iberia during the Paleozoic inferred from the geochemical record of detrital rocks in the Cantabrian Zone. Lithos, 182–183, 211–228.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Kieran Mulchrone, Pedro Huerta (2013). Conical folding in the core of an orocline.

Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, J. Brendan Murphy, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Mandy Hoffman, Ulf Linnemann (2013). Provenance analysis of the Paleozoic sequences of the northern Gondwana margin in NW Iberia: passive margin to Variscan collision and orocline development. Gondwana Research 3, 1089-113.

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Kieran F. Mulchrone, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso (2013). Mathematica code for least-squares cone fitting and equal-area stereonet representation. Computers and Geosciences, 54, 203–210.

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Arlo B. Weil, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Stephen T. Johnston, Daniel Pastor-Galán (2013). Kinematic constraints on buckling a lithospheric-scale orocline along the northern margin of Gondwana: A geologic synthesis. Tectonophysics 582, 25-49.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán (2013). Evolución geodinámica del Oroclinal Ibero Armoricano. Geología estructural, modlización análoga y geocronologí. Serie Nova Terra, Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, A Coruña, ISBN 10: 8497495489 ISBN 13: 9788497495486.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán (2012). Evolución geodinámica del Oroclinal Ibero Armoricano. Geología estructural, modlización análoga y geocronologí.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Carlo Dietl, Friedhelm Zanella (2012). Modelización análoga del desprendimiento de una raíz litosférica. ¿Puede un oroclinal producir el desprendimiento del manto litosférico?/Analogue modeling of detachment of a lithospheric root. Do oroclines trigger lithospheric detachment?. Geogaceta, 52, 123-126.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Kieran F. Mulchrone, Pedro Huerta (2012). Conical folding in the core of an orocline. A geometric analysis from the Cantabrian Arc (Variscan Belt of NW Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology. v. 39, 210-223.

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Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Arlo B. Weil, Stephen T. Johnston, Daniel Pastor-Galán (2012). Buckling an orogen: The Cantabrian Orocline. GSA Today. v.22, no. 7, 4-7.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Gernold Zulauf, Friedhelm Zanella (2012). Analogue modeling of lithospheric scale orocline buckling: Constraints on the evolution of the Ibero Armorican Arc. GSA Bulletin 124, 7-8, 1293-1309.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Arlo B. Weil, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Stephen T. Johnston, J. Brendan Murphy (2012). A virtual tour of the Ibero-Armorican orocline. Journal of the Virtual Explorer v. 43, paper 2.

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Javier Fernández-Suárez, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Stephen T. Johnston, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Teresa E. Jeffries, G.A. Jenner, J. Brendan Murphy (2011). Iberian late-Variscan granitoids: Some considerations on crustal sources and the significance of mantle extraction ages. Lithos, 123, 1-4, 121-132.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Arlo B. Weil (2011). Orocline timing through joint analysis: Insights from the Ibero-Armorican Arc. Tectonophysics 507, 31–46.

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Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Teresa E. Jeffries, Stephen T. Johnston, Daniel Pastor-Galán, J. Brendan Murphy, M. Piedad Franco, Juan Carlos Gonzalo (2011). Diachronous post‐orogenic magmatism within a developing orocline in Iberia, European Variscides. Tectonics, 30, TC5008.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gernold Zulauf, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Carlo Dietl, Friedhelm Zanella (2010). Analogue modeling of lithospheric orocline bending. Implications on the development of the Ibero-Armorican Arc..

Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Kieran F. Mulchrone, Patrick Meere (2009). Factors affecting finite strain estimation in low-grade, low-strain clastic rocks. Journal of Structural Geology 31(12) pp. 1586-1596.

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Daniel Pastor-Galán (2008). Análisis de deformación finita en cinturones de pliegues y cabalgamientos (Talas Ala Tau, Kirguistán y zona cantabríca, NW de Iberia).

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Daniel Pastor-Galán, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, Kieran F. Mulchrone, Patrick Meere (2008). Determinación de la deformación finita en dos secciones distintas (Talas Ala Tau, Kirguistán y Zona Cantábrica, NO de España). Relaciones entre litología y deformación interna. Stud. Geol. Salman., 44 (2), p 221-258.

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