The Galicia - Ossa-Morena Zonea new zone of the Iberian Massif
- R. Arenas 1
- R. Díez Fernández 1
- F.J. Rubio Pascual 2
- S. Sánchez Martínez 1
- L.M. Martín Parra 2
- J. Matas 2
- J. González del Tánago 1
- A. Jiménez-Díaz 1
- J.M. Fuenlabrada 1
- P. Andonaegui 1
- A. Garcia-Casco 3
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
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Universidad de Granada
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ISSN: 1576-5172
Année de publication: 2016
Titre de la publication: IX CONGRESO GEOLÓGICO DE ESPAÑA
Número: 16
Pages: 171-174
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Geotemas (Madrid)
Résumé
Correlation of a group of allochthonous terranes (referred to as basal, ophiolitic and upper units) exposed in the NW and SW of the Iberian Massif, is used to propose a new geotectonic zone in the southern branch of the Variscan Orogen: the Galicia - Ossa-Morena Zone. Recent advances in SW Iberia identify most of the former Ossa-Morena Zone as another allochthonous complex of the Iberian Massif, the Ossa-Morena Complex, equivalent to the Cabo Ortegal, Órdenes, Malpica-Tui, Bragança and Morais complexes described in NW Iberia. The new geotectonic zone and its counterparts along the rest of the Variscan Orogen constitute an Internal Variscan Zone with ophiolites and units affected by high-P metamorphism. The Galicia - Ossa-Morena Zone includes a Variscan suture and pieces of continental crust bearing the imprint of Ediacaran-Cambrian events related to the activity of peri-Gondwanan magmatic arcs (Cadomian orogenesis). In the Iberian Massif, the general structure of this geotectonic zone represents a duplication of the Gondwanan platform, the outboard sections being juxtaposed on top of domains located closer to the mainland before amalgamation.