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Late Cambrian magmatic arc activity in peri-Gondwana: geochemical evidence from metagranitoid rocks of the Basal Allochthonous Units of NW Iberia

Authors :
Andonaegui Moreno, María Del Pilar
Abati Gómez, Jacobo
Díez Fernández, Rubén
Andonaegui Moreno, María Del Pilar
Abati Gómez, Jacobo
Díez Fernández, Rubén
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

The North African section of the Gondwana margin was the site of voluminous, arc-related magmatism during the Late Neoproterozoic (Avalonian–Cadomian orogen). The lower (and older) metasedimentary sequence that constitutes the Basal Units of the Allochthonous Complexes of NW Iberia was deposited in that setting. In these units, sedimentation was followed by the intrusion of tonalites and granodiorites in the late Cambrian (ca. 493–489Ma). In the Late Paleozoic, the collision of Gondwana and Laurussia (Variscan orogeny) deformed and metamorphosed the whole ensemble. New whole rock geochemical analysis performed in seven samples of metatonalites and fourteen samples of metagranodiorites are characterized by: i) slight enrichment in incompatible elements (Rb, Ba, Th, U), ii) negative anomalies in Nb, Ta, P, and Ti, and iii) negative anomalies in Eu. These chemical features are in agreement with a subduction-related setting for the genesis of both types of magma, which is also supported by chemical discrimination using tectonic setting diagrams. Positive anomalies of Pb suggest a crustal component. The new geochemical data reveal that the convergent orogen that ruled the paleogeography of the Gondwana periphery during the Neoproterozoic (Cadomian orogen) remained active beyond the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition, up to at least late Cambrian times.<br />Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)<br />Depto. de Mineralogía y Petrología<br />Fac. de Ciencias Geológicas<br />TRUE<br />pub

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Database :
OAIster
Notes :
application/pdf, 1695-6133, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1450552115
Document Type :
Electronic Resource