Thybo, H. and Artemieva, Irina M. (2020) Trans-European Suture Zone. In: Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. , ed. by Gupta, H.. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series . Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, , 11 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-10475-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_282-1.

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Abstract

The Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ) is the transition zone from the Precambrian East European Craton in the north and east to the younger Phanerozoic mobile belts to the south and west. It is the most prominent lithospheric tectonic feature of Europe.
The term Trans-European Suture Zone was only adapted around year 2000 during the Pan-European EUROPROBE program of the European Science Foundation. Until then, parts of the zone were termed Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone, Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone, Trans-European Fault, and Tornquist Fan.

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