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Low-Grade Metamorphism in the Central Sector of the Ossa-Morena Zone

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dc.creator López-Munguira, Aurora
dc.creator Nieto, F.
dc.date 2008-07-02T10:18:42Z
dc.date 2008-07-02T10:18:42Z
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T02:18:03Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T02:18:03Z
dc.identifier Journal of Iberian Geology 30 (2004) 109-118
dc.identifier 0378-102X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5508
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/5508
dc.description [EN] The diagenetic and metamorphic grade of low temperature processes which affected the pelitic materials of the Central Sector of the Ossa-Morena Zone is determined by electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction criteria. Cadomian metamorphic processes produced at least greenschist facies conditions even in the lowest grade rocks of the Serie Negra. Post-Cadomian rifting affected the early Paleozoic sedimentary basin giving way to an extensional metamorphism characterised by a burial pattern, which represents the earliest response to depth-controlled diagenetic and very low-grade metamorphic reaction progress caused by basin subsidence. No significant metamorphic overprint was produced by Variscan deformation, as shown by the preservation of typically sedimentary minerals and early-to-late diagenetic values of KI in Devonian and Carboniferous sediments.
dc.description [ES] Se han determinado los procesos diagenéticos y metamórficos de baja temperatura que afectan a los materiales pelíticos del sector central de la Zona de Ossa Morena, mediante microscopía electrónica y difracción de rayos-X. En este sector, los procesos metamórficos cadomienses llegaron a alcanzar las condiciones de facies de esquistos verdes como mínimo, aún en las rocas de menor grado de metamorfismo de la Serie Negra. La fase de rifting post-cadomiense afectó a la cuenca sedimentaria durante el Paleozoico inferior, produciendo un metamorfismo extensional de enterramiento que representa la respuesta inicial al progreso de las reacciones diagenéticas y metamórficas de grado muy bajo, controladas por la profundidad debida a la subsidencia de la cuenca. Sin embargo, la deformación varisca no ha producido un metamorfismo significativo, como lo demuestra la conservación de minerales típicamente sedimentarios y los valores diagenéticos del índice de Kübler que presentan los materiales devónicos y carboníferos.
dc.description The help of M.M. Abad-Ortega (Centro de Instrumentación Científica, University of Granada) with the HRTEM and AEM and I. Nieto with the preparation of samples was essential for the present work. Financial support was supplied by Research Project BTE2000-0582 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and Research Group RNM-0179 of the Junta de Andalucía.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Crystal-chemical parameters
dc.subject Low-grade metamorphism
dc.subject Precambrian
dc.subject Cambrian
dc.subject Devonian-Carboniferous sediments
dc.subject SW Spain
dc.subject Parámetros cristalquímicos
dc.subject Metamorfismo de grado bajo
dc.subject Precámbrico
dc.subject Cámbrico
dc.subject Sedimentos devónico-carboníferos
dc.subject SW España
dc.title Low-Grade Metamorphism in the Central Sector of the Ossa-Morena Zone
dc.title Metamorfismo de grado bajo en el Sector Central de la Zona de Ossa Morena
dc.type Artículo


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