The geology of Iberia : a geodynamic approach. Volume 2, The variscan cycle / Cecilio Quesada, José Tomás Oliveira, editors.

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The geology of Iberia : a geodynamic approach. Volume 2, The variscan cycle / Cecilio Quesada, José Tomás Oliveira, editors.

9783030105198 (electronic book)
3030105199 (electronic book)
9783030105181

Cham : Springer, [2019]

©2019

English

1 online resource : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8 doi

QE283 .G46 2019eb

554.6

Taking a new global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective. Owing to its location close to successive plate margins, Iberia has played a pivotal role in the geodynamic evolution of the Gondwanan, Rheic, Pangea, Tethys s.l. and Eurasian plates over the last 600 Ma of Earth's history. The geological record starts with the amalgamation of Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic succeeded by the rifting and spreading of the Rheic ocean; its demise, which led to the amalgamation of Pangea in the late Paleozoic; the rifting and spreading of several arms of the Neotethys ocean in the Mesozoic Era and their ongoing closure, which was responsible for the Alpine orogeny. The significant advances in the last 20 years have attracted international research interest in the geology of the Iberian Peninsula. This volume presents the most comprehensive, careful and updated description of the variscan cycle in Iberia. This volume focuses in the different geological events since the Cambrian-Early Ordovician rift until the late variscan orocline formations including magmatic and metamorphic evolution.

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