The Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberian Massif) hosts the largest set of Cambro–Ordovician alkaline magmatic plutons related to the Palaeozoic rifting of the northern Gondwana margin so far described. An organized framework for their classification at different scales is proposed through data-driven ranks based on their distinctive petrological features relative to other rift-related magmatic rocks found throughout we...
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The lithological units in the Arronches region (included within the Arronches tectonic unit, Tomar-Badajoz-Córdoba Shear Zone, northernmost Ossa-Morena Zone) and in particular the peralkaline orthogneisses therein, have been the target for petrological, geochemical and structural studies in order to constrain its petrogenesis and tectono-metamorphic contextualization within the broader regional geology. Two det...
The Ossa-Morena Zone (OMZ) is the outermost domain of the Iberian Massif hinterland and presents a stratigraphic succession which records the process of rifting that occurs in the northern Gondwana margin, leading to the opening of the Rheic Ocean during Cambrian-Ordovician times. Although this zone has witnessed a complex tectono-metamorphic evolution during Devonian-Carboniferous times, related to the rise up...
The alkaline magmatic rocks emplaced during the Cambro-Ordovician rifting of north Gondwana consist of alkaline granites, syenites and albitites variably deformed during the Variscan Orogeny. They are located in in the central-northern domains of the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberia), within areas that experienced varying tectono-metamorphic conditions during the late Palaeozoic, ranging from low-grade to high-grade...
As the wavy pattern of fold belts is a common feature, since its recognition, the transpressive regimes were expected to be a pervasive mechanism on their evolution. Nevertheless, even in regions where oblique shortening is inferred, typical structures of transpression (e.g. transected cleavage and en echelon folds, shear or veins) are often absent. Instead, what is frequently observed is the juxtaposition of n...
ABSTRACT: The lithological units in the Arronches region (included within the Arronches tectonic unit, Tomar-Badajoz-Córdoba Shear Zone, northernmost Ossa-Morena Zone) and in particular the peralkaline orthogneisses therein, have been the target for petrological, geochemical and structural studies in order to constrain its petrogenesis and tectono-metamorphic contextualization within the broader regional geolog...
ABSTRACT: The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Central-Iberian Zone is often considered a normal stratigraphic transition. Nevertheless, in studies carried out in Portugal (e.g. Espinhosela, São Mamede and Buçaco areas) and Spain (e.g. Alcañices Synform) this contact is marked by the development of shear zones subparallel to the lithostratigraphic units. Ongoing structural mapping in Celorico de Basto (Marão...
ABSTRACT: The Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberian Massif) hosts the largest set of Cambro-Ordovician alkaline magmatic plutons related to the Palaeozoic rifting of the northern Gondwana margin so far described. An organized framework for their classification at different scales is proposed through data-driven ranks based on their distinctive petrological features relative to other rift-related magmatic rocks found thr...
A Faixa Piritosa Ibérica constitui uma das províncias metalogenéticas mais relevantes da Europa, caracterizada por mineralizações de sulfuretos maciços e um longo historial de atividade mineira. A mina do Trimpancho, situada na zona fronteiriça entre Portugal e Espanha, integra este contexto geológico e apresenta vestígios de exploração antiga, com escombreiras remanescentes que constituem fontes de contaminaçã...