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100 Comparison of the Sm – Nd geochemistry of metasedimentary rocks from terranes located in the footwall and hanging wall to the Variscan suture, may help to reconstruct the paleogeography of the peri-Gondwanan domain during Ediacaran – Early Paleozoic times. This information can also be valuable in order to recognize and correlate the allochthonous terranes located to both sides of the suture zone in central and Western Europe, especially in re- gions where the position of the suture is not clear or the struc- tural relationships are under discussion. Acknowledgments Financial support for this research has been provided by the Spanish project CGL2007-65338-CO2/BTE (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación). Insightful reviews of the manuscript performed by Ulf Linnemann and an anonymous referee are gratefully acknowl- edged, as well as the important editorial work of Marco Sca- mbelluri that signi fi cantly improved the fi nal version of the manuscript. 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