This study focuses on bimodal meta-volcanic rocks present in the Iberian Massif, in the ´Evora-Aracena Metamorphic Belt of the Ossa-Morena Zone (OMZ), near the boundary with the South Portuguese Zone. New petrological, geochemical (whole-rock and Sr–Nd isotopes) and LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon geochronology data are presented to track the magmatic evolution of both felsic and mafic rocks and their respective geodynam...
ABSTRACT: This study focuses on bimodal meta-volcanic rocks present in the Iberian Massif, in the Evora-Aracena Metamorphic Belt of the Ossa-Morena Zone (OMZ), near the boundary with the South Portuguese Zone. New petrological, geochemical (whole-rock and Sr-Nd isotopes) and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon geochronology data are presented to track the magmatic evolution of both felsic and mafic rocks and their respective...
SUMMARY: Geochronological data from the pre-Mesozoic basement of the Lusitanian Basement (West of the Porto-Tomar Fault) was obtained. Results show a predominant Cadomian/Pan-African and Eburnean inheritance/source, placing this sector as a peri-Gondwanan domain. However, two major differences can be seen in the data: samples with a clear absence in Mesoproterozoic ages vs. samples with a clear presence of thes...
SUMMARY: We present new U-Pb zircon data from the Évora Massif (SW Ossa–Morena Zone). Série Negra paragneiss of Escoural Fm. yields a maximum depositional age of ~580 Ma. Felsic orthogneiss “leptinites” included in Escoural Fm., commonly attributed to the Precambrian, yield a concordant age of 513 ± 3 Ma. Felsic volcanics interbedded in the Monfurado Fm. and the Safira Orthogneiss show very discordant zircon ag...
ABSTRACT: The Papoa Volcanic Breccia (Peniche, West Portugal) is a Mesozoic pyroclastic deposit that includes numerous igneous and metamorphic xenoliths belonging to the Variscan basement of the Lusitanian Basin, in which this unit outcrops. These rocks correspond mostly to syenogranites and diatexites affected by intense pyrometamorphism and, despite their strong secondary alteration by weathering, they still ...
SUMMARY: Geochronological data from the pre-Mesozoic basement of the Lusitanian Basement (West of the Porto-Tomar Fault) was obtained. Results show a predominant Cadomian/Pan-African and Eburnean inheritance/source, placing this sector as a peri-Gondwanan domain. However, two major differences can be seen in the data: samples with a clear absence in Mesoproterozoic ages vs. samples with a clear presence of thes...
SUMÁRIO: Análise de proveniência de sucessões detríticas da Zona de Ossa-Morena é reinterpretada a fim de demarcar os estádios de inversão tectónica do Ciclo Varisco. Zircões detríticos de unidades de Rift do Câmbrico médio-superior (Fm de Ossa, Fm de Fatuquedo) mostram não ter existido variações significativas das áreas fonte quando comparadas com os sedimentos ediacarianos, que refletem erosão/reciclagem da c...
SUMÁRIO: Dados geoquímicos obtidos em meta-riólitos da região de Viana do Alentejo incluídos na formação Xistos de Moura permitem diferenciar 3 grupos distintos: Grupo I – rico em HREE com assinatura orogénica; Grupo II – também enriquecido em HREE, mas apresentando natureza anorogénica; e Grupo III - anorogénico, mais enriquecido em REE que os anteriores. Tais informações, quando combinadas com dados geocronol...