The Ossa-Morena Zone (OMZ) is a major geotectonic unit within the Iberian Massif (which constitutes an important segment of the European Variscan Belt) and one of its distinguishing features is the presence of a noteworthy compositional diversity of plutonic rocks. In the SW sector of the OMZ, the tonalitic Hospitais intrusion (located to the W of Montemor-o-Novo) is considered a typical example of syn-orogenic...
In the Segura area, Variscan S-type granites, aplite veins and lepidolite-subtype granitic aplite-pegmatite veins intruded the Cambrian schist-metagraywacke complex. The granites are syn D3. Aplite veins also intruded the granites. Two-mica granite and muscovite granite have similar ages of 311.0 ± 0.5 Ma and 312.9 ± 2.0 Ma but are not genetically related, as indicated by their geochemical characteristics and (...
The Eucísia (Alfândega da Fé) and Mateus (Vila Real)areas are located in the Central Iberian Zone, a segment of the northern Gondwana margin which underwent a long Variscan geodynamic evolution. Lithostratigraphically both areas are characterized by a predominance of Precambrian to Cambrian metasedimentary rocks and by the transgressive nature of the Ordovician formations. Continental rifting on the platform of...
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