M. Francisco Pereira

M. Francisco Pereira publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

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Best Publications

• The Cadomian Orogeny and the opening of the Rheic Ocean: The diacrony of geotectonic processes constrained by LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon dating (Ossa-Morena and Saxo-Thuringian Zones, Iberian and Bohemian Massifs)

  Ulf Linnemann;Francisco Pereira;Teresa E. Jeffries;Kerstin Drost

  592
  Citations

• North-Gondwana assembly, break-up and paleogeography: U–Pb isotope evidence from detrital and igneous zircons of Ediacaran and Cambrian rocks of SW Iberia

  M.F. Pereira;A.R. Solá;M. Chichorro;L. Lopes

  157
  Citations

• Inherited arc signature in Ediacaran and Early Cambrian basins of the Ossa-Morena Zone (Iberian Massif, Portugal): Paleogeographic link with European and North African Cadomian correlatives

  M. Pereira;M. Chichorro;U. Linnemann;L. Eguiluz

  154
  Citations

• The provenance of Late Ediacaran and Early Ordovician siliciclastic rocks in the Southwest Central Iberian Zone: constraints from detrital zircon data on northern Gondwana margin evolution during the late Neoproterozoic

  M.F. Pereira;U. Linnemann;M. Hofmann;M. Chichorro

  152
  Citations

• Cambrian ensialic rift-related magmatism in the Ossa-Morena Zone (Evora-Aracena metamorphic belt, SW Iberian Massif): Sm-Nd isotopes and SHRIMP zircon U-Th-Pb geochronology

  M. Chichorro;M.F. Pereira;M. Díaz-Azpiroz;I.S. Williams

  149
  Citations

• Tectonic evolution of Variscan Iberia: Gondwana-Laurussia collision revisited

  Rubén Díez Fernández;Rubén Díez Fernández;Ricardo Arenas;M. Francisco Pereira;Sonia Sánchez-Martínez

  134
  Citations

• Rift-related volcanism predating the birth of the Rheic Ocean (Ossa-Morena zone, SW Iberia)

  Unknown

  119
  Citations

• Chronological link between deep-seated processes in magma chambers and eruptions: Permo-Carboniferous magmatism in the core of Pangaea (Southern Pyrenees)

  M.F. Pereira;A. Castro;M. Chichorro;C. Fernández

  118
  Citations

• The missing Rheic Ocean magmatic arcs: Provenance analysis of Late Paleozoic sedimentary clastic rocks of SW Iberia

  M.F. Pereira;M. Chichorro;S.T. Johnston;G. Gutiérrez-Alonso

  112
  Citations

• Variscan intra-orogenic extensional tectonics in the Ossa-Morena Zone (Evora-Aracena-Lora del Rio metamorphic belt, SW Iberian Massif): SHRIMP zircon U-Th-Pb geochronology

  M. Francisco Pereira;Martim Chichorro;Ian S. Williams;José B. Silva

  104
  Citations

• New insights from U-Pb zircon dating of Early Ordovician magmatism on the northern Gondwana margin: The Urra Formation (SW Iberian Massif, Portugal)

  A.R. Solá;M.F. Pereira;I.S. Williams;M.L. Ribeiro

  101
  Citations

• Zircon U-Pb geochronology of paragneisses and biotite granites from the SW Iberian Massif (Portugal): Evidence for a palaeogeographical link between the Ossa-Morena Ediacaran basins and the West African craton

  M. F. Pereira;M. Chichorro;I. S. Williams;J. B. Silva

  100
  Citations

• Tracing the Cadomian magmatism with detrital/inherited zircon ages by in-situ U–Pb SHRIMP geochronology (Ossa-Morena Zone, SW Iberian Massif)

  Unknown

  92
  Citations

• Early carboniferous wrenching, exhumation of high-grade metamorphic rocks and basin instability in SW Iberia: Constraints derived from structural geology and U–Pb and 40Ar–39Ar geochronology

  M. Francisco Pereira;Martim Chichorro;J. Brandão Silva;Berta Ordóñez-Casado

  91
  Citations

• Diachronism in the late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian arc-rift transition of North Gondwana: A comparison of Morocco and the Iberian Ossa-Morena Zone

  J. Javier Álvaro;Félix Bellido;Dominique Gasquet;M. Francisco Pereira

  75
  Citations

• Exhumation of high-pressure rocks in northern Gondwana during the Early Carboniferours (Coimbra-Cordoba shear zone, SW Iberian Massif): Tectonothermal analysis and U-Th-Pb SHRIMP in-situ zircon geochronology

  M.F. Pereira;A. Apraiz;M. Chichorro;J.B. Silva

  72
  Citations

• Extensional orogenic collapse captured by strike-slip tectonics: Constraints from structural geology and UPb geochronology of the Pinhel shear zone (Variscan orogen, Iberian Massif)

  Rubén Díez Fernández;Rubén Díez Fernández;Manuel Francisco Pereira

  68
  Citations

• Early Cambrian granitoids of North Gondwana margin in the transition from a convergent setting to intra-continental rifting (Ossa-Morena Zone, SW Iberia)

  Unknown

  64
  Citations

• Relative timing of transcurrent displacements in northern Gondwana: U–Pb laser ablation ICP-MS zircon and monazite geochronology of gneisses and sheared granites from the western Iberian Massif (Portugal)

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  64
  Citations

• Birth and demise of the Rheic Ocean magmatic arc(s): Combined U–Pb and Hf isotope analyses in detrital zircon from SW Iberia siliciclastic strata

  M.F. Pereira;G. Gutíerrez-Alonso;G. Gutíerrez-Alonso;J.B. Murphy;J.B. Murphy;K. Drost

  57
  Citations