Two distinct Cambrian magmatic pulses are recognized in the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberia): an early rift-(ER) and a main rift-related event. This Cambrian magmatism is related to intra-continental rifting of North Gondwana that is thought to have culminated in the opening of the Rheic Ocean in Lower Ordovician times. New data of whole-rock geochemistry (19 samples), Sm–Nd–Sr isotopes (4 samples) and ID–TIMS U...
New U–Pb and 40Ar–39Ar geochronology and structural data from high- tomedium grade metamorphic shear zones of the Ossa-Morena Zone, and structural data from Early Carboniferous basins (Ossa-Morena Zone and South-Portuguese Zone), place additional constraints on the Variscan tectonics in SW Iberia. A zircon U–Pb age of 465±14Ma (Middle Ordovician) measured on migmatite from the Coimbra–Cordoba shear zone is inte...
The mid- to late-Devonian Rheic suture between the Laurussia and Gondwana blocks that combined to form Pangea, can be traced along the Variscan orogenic belt across Western-Central Europe. In southwest Iberia, there are, however, no magmatic arc rocks that can be related to the closure, by subduction of its oceanic lithosphere, of the Rheic Ocean. The only magmatism recorded on both sides of the suture is of ea...
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