The book presents proceedings of the International Conference INQUA-SEQS 2017 held in Tautavel, France. Reports concern a wide spectrum of issues connected to the study of the Quaternary Epoch (2.6 Ma) in Europe and Asia. Based on the results of local and regional Quaternary studies the authors focus on Quaternary stratigraphy and correlations across the Europe and discuss the integration of panEuropean and pan-Eurasian stratigraphical frameworks. The special attention is given to palaeontological, palaeoclimatological and palaeoenvironmental issues from the Quaternary of Europe and Asia.

Hercynian metamorphism and magmatism in the Cap de Creus peninsula (eastern Pyrenees) occurred contemporaneously with non-coaxial deformation in a transpressive regime. An example of this has been taken from a migmatite complex in the northern coast. The studied area is formed by partially melted sil-limanite schists together with two different suites of igneous rocks: a calc-alkaline magmatic sequence, consisting of small granitoid bodies, and later peraluminous leucogranites and pegmatites. All these rocks occur within a NE-SW- to E-W-trending sub-vertical high-strain zone, where a first schistosity is tightly folded and transposed. The relations between folds and crenulation cleavage in the metasediments and deformational fabrics in the granitoids and migmatites provide good evidence for the penecontemporaneity of deformational processes, magmatism and migmatization. Furthermore, the analysis of cross-cutting relationships between different granitoids as well as the observation of their different degrees of deformation verifies that magmatism in this area took place as synkinematic consecutive intrusions from the more basic magmas to the peraluminous acid dykes.