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-Arenas, R., Novo-Fernández, I., García-Casco, A., Díez Fernández, R., Fuenlabrada, J.M., Pereira, M.F., Abati, J., Sánchez Martínez, S., Rubio Pascual, F.J. (2021). A unique blueschist metapelite with Mg-rich chloritoid from the Badajoz-Córdoba Unit (SW Iberian Massif): correlation of Late Devonian high-pressure belts along the Variscan Orogen. International Geology Review. In press. DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2020.1789509

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-Arenas, R., Sánchez Martínez, S., Díez Fernández, R., Gerdes, A., Abati, J., Fernández-Suárez, J., Andonaegui, P., González Cuadra, P., López Carmona, A., Albert, R., Fuenlabrada, J.M., Rubio Pascual, F.J. (2016). Allochthonous terranes involved in the Variscan suture of NW Iberia: A review of their origin and tectonothermal evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 161, 140-178.

-Díez Fernández, R., Arenas, R., Pereira, M.F., Sánchez Martínez, S., Albert, R., Martín Parra, L.M., Rubio Pascual, F.J., Matas, J. (2016). Tectonic evolution of Variscan Iberia: Gondwana-Laurussia collision revisited. Earth-Sciences Reviews, 162, 269-292.

-Novo-Fernández, I., García-Casco, A., Arenas, R., Diez Fernández, R. (2016). The metahyaloclastitic matrix of a unique metavolcanic block reveals subduction in the Somozas Mélange (Cabo Ortegal Complex, NW Iberia): Tectonic implications for the assembly of Pangea. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34, 963-985.

-Albert, R., Arenas, R., Gerdes, A., Sánchez Martínez, S., Fernández Suárez, J., Fuenlabrada, J.M., (2015). Provenance of the Variscan Upper Allochthon (Cabo Ortegal Complex, NW Iberian Massif). Gondwana Research, 28, 1434-1448.

-Arenas, R., Sánchez Martínez, S. (2015). Variscan ophiolites in NW Iberia: Tracking lost Paleozoic oceans and the assembly of Pangea. Episodes, 38, 315-333.

-Von Raumer, J.F., Stampfli, G.M., Arenas, R., Sánchez Martínez, S. (2015). Ediacaran to Cambrian oceanic rocks of the Gondwana margin and their tectonic interpretation. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104, 1107-1121.

-Arenas, R., Díez Fernández, R., Sánchez Martínez, S., Gerdes, A., Fernández-Suárez, J., Albert, R. (2014). Two-stage collision: Exploring the birth of Pangea in the Variscan terranes. Gondwana Research, 25, 756-763.

-Arenas, R., Sánchez Martínez, S., Gerdes, A., Albert, R., Díez Fernández, R., Andonaegui, P. (2014). Re-interpreting the Devonian ophiolites involved in the Variscan suture: U-Pb and Lu-Hf zircon data of the Moeche Ophiolite (Cabo Ortegal Complex, NW Iberia). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103, 1385-1402.

-Arango, C., Díez Fernández, R., Arenas, R. (2013). Large-scale flat-lying isoclinal folding in extending lithosphere: Santa María de la Alameda dome (Central Iberian Massif, Spain). Lithosphere, 5, 483-500.

-Rubio Pascual, F.J., Arenas, R., Martínez Catalán, J.R., Rodríguez Fernández, L.R., Wijbrans, J. (2013). Thickening and exhumation of the Variscan roots in the Iberian Central System: Tectonothermal processes and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages. Tectonophysics, 587, 207-221.

-Andonaegui, P., Castiñeiras, P., González Cuadra. P., Arenas, R., Sánchez Martínez, S., Abati, J., Díaz García, F., Martínez Catalán, J.R. (2012). The Corredoiras orthogneiss (NW Iberian Massif): Geochemistry and geochronology of the Paleozoic magmatic suite developed in a peri-Gondwanan arc. Lithos, 128-131, 84-99.

-Sánchez Martínez, S., Arenas, R., Gerdes, A., Castiñeiras, P., Potrel, A., Fernández-Suárez, J. (2011). Isotope geochemistry and revised geochronology of the Purrido Ophiolite (Cabo Ortegal Complex, NW Iberian Massif): Devonian magmatism with mixed sources and involved Mesoproterozoic basement. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 168, 733-750.

-Gómez Barreiro, J., Martínez Catalán, J.R., Prior, D., Wenk, H.-R., Vogel, S., Díaz García, F., Arenas, R., Sánchez Martínez, S., Lonardelli, I. (2010). Fabric development in a Middle Devonian Intraoceanic subduction regime: the Careón Ophiolite (NW Spain). Journal of Geology, 118, 163-186.

-Alcock, J.E., Martínez Catalán, J.R., Arenas, R., Díez Montes, A. (2009). Use of thermal modeling to assess the tectono-metamorphic history of the Lugo and Sanabria gneiss domes, Northwest Iberia. Bulletin de la Société Geologique de France, 180, 179-197.

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-Abati, J., Arenas, R., Martínez Catalán, J.R., Díaz García, F. (2003). Anticlockwise P-T path of granulites from the Monte Castelo Gabbro (Órdenes Complex, NW Spain). Journal of Petrology, 44, 305-327.

-Arenas, R., Martínez Catalán, J.R. (2003). Low-P metamorphism following a Barrovian-type evolution. Complex tectonic controls for a common transition, as deduced in the Mondoñedo thrust sheet (NW Iberian Massif). Tectonophysics, 365,  143-164.

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