The Variscan in Austria

Abstract

In the last years several comprehensive reviews of the Variscan in Austria have been published. The fundamental data to this subject have previously been summarized by FLUGEL (1970,1978),TOLLMANN (1977) and SCHÖNLAUB (1979); they also mentioned the relevant literature. With regard to the attempt to present the pre-Alpine history of the Austrian Palaeozoic within the framework of the IGCP project no. 5 (pre-Variscan and Variscan events of the Alpine Mediterranean mountain belts), it seems not very useful to anticipate to that report in the present paper. Moreover, the above-mentioned publications document the state of knowledge up to about 1979; a correlation table compiled by SCHÖNLAUB (1979) gives additional information (Encl. I). It might be useful, however, to provide the most recent information to current investigators; for that reason a bibliography is presented with additional data.