The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle

The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle
ISBN-10
3030105199
ISBN-13
9783030105198
Series
The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach
Category
Science
Pages
544
Language
English
Published
2019-08-20
Publisher
Springer Nature
Authors
Cecilio Quesada, José Tomás Oliveira

Description

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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