The Cambro-Ordovician Ollo de Sapo magmatism in the Iberian Massif and its Variscan evolution: A review

M García-Arias, A Díez-Montes, C Villaseca… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present here a comprehensive and updated review on the gneissic Ollo de Sapo
Formation (OSF) in the Iberian Massif and discuss multiple aspects (lithostratigraphy …

Space and time in the tectonic evolution of the northwestern Iberian Massif: Implications for the Variscan belt

JRM Catalán, R Arenas, FD García, PG Cuadra… - 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent advances in geochemical studies of igneous rocks, isotopic age data for magmatism
and metamorphism, quantitative pressure-temperature (PT) estimates of metamorphic …

Crustal origin of Hercynian peraluminous granitic batholiths of Central Spain: petrological, geochemical and isotopic (Sr, Nd) constraints

C Villaseca, L Barbero, G Rogers - Lithos, 1998 - Elsevier
In Central Spain, it is possible to distinguish two main types of peraluminous late-Hercynian
granites: the PI types and the PS types. The distinction between both types is made on the …

The geology of Spain

W Gibbons, T Moreno - 2002 - books.google.com
The Society makes every effort to ensure that the scientific and production quality of its
books matches that of its journals. Since 1997, all book proposals have been refereed by …

Zircon inheritance reveals exceptionally fast crustal magma generation processes in Central Iberia during the Cambro-Ordovician

F Bea, P Montero, F González-Lodeiro… - Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The Variscan basement of the Central Iberian Zone contains abundant Cambro-Ordovician
calc-alkaline to peraluminous metagranites and metavolcanic rocks with two notable …

Nature and composition of the lower continental crust in central Spain and the granulite–granite linkage: inferences from granulitic xenoliths

C Villaseca, H Downes, C Pin, L Barbero - Journal of Petrology, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Xenolith-bearing alkaline ultrabasic dykes were intruded into the Hercynian basement of the
Spanish Central System in early Mesozoic times. The suite of lower-crustal xenoliths in the …

Cretaceous

J Martín-Chivelet, X Berástegui, I Rosales, L Vilas… - 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cretaceous rocks crop out extensively in the three main Alpine orogenic belts of Spain: the
Betic Cordillera, the Pyrenees and the Iberian Ranges. These rocks, deformed during …

New U–Pb ages for Early Ordovician magmatism in central Spain

P Valverde-Vaquero, GR Dunning - Journal of the Geological …, 2000 - lyellcollection.org
Felsic orthogneisses occur widely in the Ollo de Sapo Domain of the Central Iberian Zone,
most of which were previously considered to represent a Precambrian basement to the …

Provenance constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb ages in the NW Iberian Massif: implications for Palaeozoic plate configuration and Variscan evolution

JRMI Catalán, J FernÁndez-SuÁrez… - Journal of the …, 2004 - lyellcollection.org
Detrital zircons from pre-orogenic Upper Ordovician to Devonian low-grade
metasedimentary rocks have been dated by laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma …

Thickening and exhumation of the Variscan roots in the Iberian Central System: Tectonothermal processes and 40Ar/39Ar ages

FJR Pascual, R Arenas, JRM Catalán, LRR Fernández… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
40Ar/39Ar dating of white mica in metapelites, thermobarometric calculations and new
structural and geological mapping have been carried out in the Somosierra region (Iberian …