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

Tectonophysics

Volumn 587, Issue , 2013, Pages 207-221

  Rubio Pascual, Francisco J ^a   Arenas, Ricardo ^b   Martínez Catalán, José Ramón ^c   Rodríguez Fernández, L Roberto ^a   Wijbrans, Jan R ^d  

^a INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Barrovian to low P evolution; Iberian Massif; Variscan metamorphism

Indexed keywords

BARROVIAN TO LOW-P EVOLUTION; CENTRAL SYSTEMS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; DUCTILE FLOW; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GNEISS DOME; GRANITOIDS; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; IBERIAN MASSIF; INITIAL DEVELOPMENT; LARGE VOLUMES; LATERAL FLOW; METAPELITES; SHEAR ZONE; VARISCAN; WHITE MICA;

DOMES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA; SHEAR FLOW;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; METAMORPHISM; METAPELITE; P-T CONDITIONS; SHEAR ZONE;

CENTRAL IBERIAN ZONE; IBERIAN MASSIF;

EID: 84874017446     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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