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Sánchez Martínez, Sonia

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Sonia

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Sánchez Martínez

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/75196

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Ciencias Geológicas

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Mineralogía y Petrología

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Sm–Nd isotope geochemistry and tectonic setting of the metasedimentary rocks from the basal allochthonous units of NW Iberia (Variscan suture, Galicia)
(Lithos (Oslo. Print), 2012) Fuenlabrada Pérez, José Manuel; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Díez Fernández, Rubén; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Abati Gómez, Jacobo; López Carmona, Alicia
The basal units of the allochthonous complexes of NW Iberia are formed by thick metasedimentary rock sequences intruded by granitoids, ranging in composition from calc-alkaline (c. 493 Ma) to minor alkaline– peralkaline massifs (c. 475–470 Ma), and mafic rocks. The granitoids were transformed into variably deformed othogneisses and the associated mafic rocks were transformed into amphibolites, blueschists and eclogites during eo-Variscan high-P metamorphism dated at c. 370 Ma. Two different superimposed metasedimentary rock sequences can be distinguished. The lower sequence (maximum depositional age at c. 560 Ma) is mainly composed of metagreywackes, while the upper sequence (maximum depositional age at c. 500 Ma) consists of mica schists and other minor types. Major and trace element geochemistry of the metagreywackes of the lower sequence suggests that they were generated in relation to a peri-Gondwanan arc system built on the thinned continental margin, although some chemical transition to passive margin greywackes is also observed. This sedimentary sequence was probably deposited in an Ediacaran–Early Cambrian back-arc setting or retro-arc setting, closer to the thinned platform of the continental margin. The geochemical features of the sedimentary rocks of the upper sequence suggest some affinity with passive margin sediments; they were probably deposited closer to the continental domain and to certain distance from the most active zones of the magmatic arc. The Nd model ages of 23 analysed samples are Paleoproterozoic and range between 1782 Ma and 2223 Ma (average value 1919 Ma). The Nd model ages are slightly younger in the upper sequence than in the lower sequence, but altogether they define a single population, and therefore the two metasedimentary rock sequences can be clearly related. Sedimentation probably took place within the same basin located in the continental platform of Gondwana, the main source areas of these sedimentary rocks did not change during the Late Neoproterozoic and Cambrian times. The Nd model ages are very old and they seem to be compatible with Paleoproterozoic or Archean source areas, with only minor participation of younger sources probably represented by intrusive Cadomian–Pan-African granitoids.
Two-stage collision: Exploring the birth of Pangea in the Variscan terranes.
(Gondwana research, 2014) Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Díez Fernández, Rubén; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Gerdes, Axel; Fernández Suárez, Javier; Albert Roper, Richard
The Variscan suture exposed in NW Iberia contains a stack of terranes including two allochthonous units with continental affinity and Gondwanan provenance (Upper and Basal Units), separated by an ophiolite belt where the most common units show protolith ages at c. 395 Ma. Recent Lu–Hf zircon data obtained from these ophiolites indicate interaction between the gabbroic magmas and old continental crust. Hence, the ophiolites could not have originated in a deep ocean basin associated with a mature mid-ocean-ridge or intraoceanic subduction. The tectonothermal evolution of the continental terranes bounding the suture zone records two consecutive events of deep subduction. The Upper Units record an initial high-P/ultra-high-P metamorphic event that occurred before 400–390 Ma, while the Basal Units were affected by a second high-P/low-to-intermediate-T metamorphic event dated at c. 370 Ma. Continental subduction affected the most external margin of Gondwana and developed in a setting of dextral convergencewith Laurussia. Development of the two high-P events alternated with the opening of an ephemeral oceanic basin, probably of pull-apart type, in Early Devonian times. This ephemeral oceanic domain is suggested as the setting for the protoliths of the most common ophiolites involved in the Variscan suture. Current ideas for the assembly of Pangea advocate a single collisional event between Gondwana and Laurussia in the Carboniferous. However, the new evidence from the allochthonous terranes of the Variscan belt suggests a more complex scenario for the assembly of the supercontinent, with an interaction between the colliding continental margins that started earlier and lasted longer than previously considered. Based onmodern analogs of continental interaction, the development of complex collisions, as here suggested for Gondwana and Laurussia during the assembly of Pangea, could have been the norm rather than the exception throughout Earth history.
Single subduction zone for the generation of Devonian ophiolites and high‐P metamorphic belts of the Variscan Orogen (NW Iberia)
(Terra Nova, 2021) Díez Fernández, Rubén; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Novo Fernández, Irene; Albert Roper, Richard
Within the Variscan Orogen, Early Devonian and Late Devonian high‐P belts separated by mid‐Devonian ophiolites can be interpreted as having formed in a single subduction zone. Early Devonian convergence nucleated a Laurussia‐dipping subduction zone from an inherited lithospheric neck (peri‐Gondwanan Cambrian back‐arc). Slab‐retreat induced upper plate extension, mantle incursion and lower plate thermal softening, favouring slab‐detachment within the lower plate and diapiric exhumation of deep‐seated rocks through the overlying mantle up to relaminate the upper plate. Upper plate extension produced mid‐Devonian suprasubduction ocean floor spreading (Devonian ophiolites), while further convergence resulted in plate coupling and intraoceanic ophiolite imbrication. Accretion of the remaining Cambrian ocean heralded Late Devonian subduction of inner sections of Gondwana across the same subduction zone and the underthrusting of mainland Gondwana (culmination of NW Iberian allochthonous pile). Oblique convergence favoured lateral plate sliding, and explained the different lateral positions along Gondwana of terranes separated by Palaeozoic ophiolites.
Evolución tectónica del Macizo Ibérico durante la orogenia Varisca: colisión Gondwana - Laurrusia
(Geotemas, 2016) Díez Fernández, Rubén; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Pereira, M. Francisco; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Albert Roper, Richard; Martín Parra, Luis Miguel; Rubio Pascual, Francisco J.; Matas, J.
La revisión de la evolución tectonometamórfica y magmática del Macizo Ibérico revela periodos de extensión y convergencia alternantes dentro de un proceso global de convergencia entre Gondwana y Laurrusia durante la formación de Pangea en el Paleozoico Superior. Fases dominadas por compresión a escala litosférica se caracterizan por el desarrollo de subducción oceánica y continental, generación de arcos magmáticos, cabalgamientos y procesos de acreción de litosfera continental y plegamiento. Eventualmente, la convergencia Varisca durante el Carbonífero produjo la transferencia de un conjunto de terrenos alóctonos peri-Gondwánicos, el denominado Alóctono Ibérico, sobre Gondwana. El Alóctono Ibérico muestra una impronta tectonometamórfica previa a ese proceso de transferencia fruto de la yuxtaposición temprana de Gondwana y Laurrusia tras el cierre del océano Reico en el Devónico Inferior. Las fases dominadas por fenómenos extensionales están representadas por la apertura de dos cuencas oceánicas efímeras a expensas de la corteza orogénica formada hasta el momento, primero en el Devónico Inferior-Medio, tras el cierre del Reico, y luego durante el Carbonífero Inferior, tras el emplazamiento del alóctono peri-Gondwánico. Seguidamente, un evento de extensión intra-orogénica durante el Carbonífero Inferior-Medio desmembró al Alóctono Ibérico en apilamientos individuales de unidades exóticas separados por fallas extensionales y domos. La tectónica transcurrente jugó un papel fundamental durante toda la orogenia Varisca, especialmente durante la creación de nuevos bloques tectónicos separados por zonas de cizalla transcurrentes intra-continentales en las últimas etapas de convergencia continental.
Paleogeografía geoquímica de las series metasedimentarias del Macizo Ibérico
(Geotemas, 2016) Fuenlabrada Pérez, José Manuel; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Díez Fernández, Rubén; Pieren Pidal, Agustín Pedro
Las características geoquímicas e isotópicas de las series turbidíticas del Macizo Ibérico reflejan distintos escenarios tectónicos en la periferia de Gondwana. Estos cambios se observan en el registro sedimentario de la transición Ediacarense-Cámbrico, que tuvo lugar en el contexto general de un margen continental activo. TDM jóvenes y ɛNd menos negativos resultan característicos de cuencas sedimentarias más exteriores, con una importante contribución de material juvenil derivado del sector más activo del arco volcánico (metagrauvacas culminantes de las Unidades Superiores del Complejo de Órdenes). Las cuencas sedimentarias más próximas al continente se caracterizan por mayores aportes desde dominios alejados del arco activo que dan lugar a valores de TDM más antiguos y ɛNd muy negativos (metagrauvacas de las Unidades Basales del Complejo de Malpica-Tui). Una evolución desde contextos activos hasta otros más propios de márgenes pasivos se detecta con claridad en la transición Ediacarense-Cámbrico, y debe relacionarse con una disminución de la actividad del arco volcánico y la transición hacia un margen pasivo. El diagrama de fSm/Nd vs ɛNd confirma esta variación de los escenarios tectónicos asociados al margen de Gondwana, perfectamente registrados en los metasedimentos de diferentes sectores y unidades del Macizo Ibérico.
Tracking the Late Devonian high-P metamorphic belt in the Variscan Orogen: New constraints on the PT evolution of eclogites from the Cubito-Moura Unit (SW Iberian Massif)
(Lithos (Oslo. Print), 2021) Novo Fernández, Irene; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Capitani, Christian de; Pereira, M. Francisco; Díez Fernández, Rubén; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Garcia Casco, Antonio
The Cubito-Moura Unit is a high-P metamorphic succession that occurs in the southern part of the Ossa-Morena Complex (SW Iberian Massif). It includes a series of metasedimentary, metafelsic and metamafic rocks affected by a high-P, low to intermediate-T metamorphic event during Late Devonian times. Geochemistry of the metabasic rocks reveals that the generation of the protoliths occurred in a supra-subduction zone setting during Late Ediacaran to Early Ordovician times, either in a back-arc or fore-arc context. The eclogites contain atoll-like garnets, omphacite, amphibole, phengite (up to Si = 3.38 apfu), paragonite, rutile and quartz. Thermodynamic modelling in the MnNCKFMASTH system indicates a high-P metamorphic event at ~24 kbar and ~ 585 °C followed by a thermal peak at ~19 kbar and ~ 630 °C, and a subsequent exhumation to ~15 kbar. This P-T path indicates deep subduction at c. 370 Ma of this arc-related section. The lithostratigraphy and tectonothermal evolution of the Cubito-Moura Unit are equivalent to that of a number of units along the Iberian, Armorican and Bohemian massifs that can be correlated as a part of the same Basal Allochthonous Terrane. These units define a single Late Devonian high-P, low- to intermediate-T metamorphic belt developed during the first stages of the Variscan Orogeny.
Geochemical and isotopic (SmNd) provenance of Ediacaran-Cambrian metasedimentary series from the Iberian Massif. Paleoreconstruction of the North Gondwana margin
(Earth-Science Reviews, 2020) Fuenlabrada Pérez, José Manuel; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Díez Fernández, Rubén; Pieren Pidal, Agustín Pedro; Pereira, M. Francisco; Chichorro, Martim; Silva, José B.
The geochemical and isotopic (SmNd) features of the Ediacaran-Cambrian siliciclastic series from the Central Iberian Zone and the Iberian Allochthonous Domains indicate a significant paleogeographic change at the northern margin of Gondwana, associated with the development of the Avalonian-Cadomian arc. During the Neoproterozoic, the opening of a peri-Gondwanan back-arc basin and its subsequent widening during the Cambrian led to a progressive separation of the sedimentary basins from the main focus of the probably waning Cadomian magmatic arc activity. This work presents a paleogeographic reconstruction of the distribution of the Iberian terranes along the North Gondwanan margin during Ediacaran and Cambrian times, based on the geochemical and Nd-isotope data from the Iberian Allochthonous and Autochthonous Domains. These results suggest a location close to the West Africa Craton for both the allochthonous and autochthonous terranes, but they would be distributed laterally along the northern margin of Gondwana, occupying arc- or continental-ward positions within a wide back-arc basin. In this context, the peri-Gondwanan volcanic arc acted as the main supplier of the abundant juvenile material, as reflected in positive values of εNd and young TDM model ages (720–1215 Ma) of the Middle Cambrian siliciclastic series from NW Iberia Upper Allochthonous Units. On the other hand, the rather equivalent geochemical and isotopic features of the sedimentary series of the NW and SW Iberia Basal Allochthonous Units suggest a common paleolocation for those series, yet within the back-arc basin but closer to the mainland and older isotope sources. The sedimentary series of these terranes present the oldest TDM ages (1499–2156 Ma), clearly greater than the TDM ages that characterize coeval sedimentary series of the Iberian Autochthonous Domain (1256–1334 Ma). This finding allows us to place Iberian Basal Allochthonous Units very close to the West Africa Craton, from where they received a dominant contribution of old crustal materials, whereas the Iberian Autochthonous Domain occupied a more eastern paleoposition closer to the Sahara Metacraton.
Geochemistry of the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian transition in Central Iberia: Tectonic setting and isotopic sources
(Tectonophysics, 2016) Fuenlabrada Pérez, José Manuel; Pieren Pidal, Agustín Pedro; Díez Fernández, Rubén; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Arenas Martín, Ricardo
A complete Ediacaran–Early Cambrian stratigraphic transition can be observed in the southern part of the Central Iberian Zone (Iberian Massif). Two different stratigraphic units, underlying Ordovician series, display geochemical and Sm–Nd isotopic features in agreement with an evolving geodynamic setting. Pusa Shales (Early Cambrian) rest unconformably on greywackes of the Lower Alcudian Formation (Late Ediacaran). Both sequences present minor compositional variations for major and trace element contents and similar REE patterns, close to those of PAAS (Post Archean Australian Shale). Trace element contents and element ratios suggest mixed sources, with intermediate to felsic igneous contributions for both units. Tectonic setting discrimination diagrams for the Ediacaran greywackes indicate that these turbiditic series were deposited in a sedimentary basin associated with a mature active margin (volcanic arc). However, the compositions of the Cambrian shales fit better with a more stable context, a back-arc or retro-arc setting. εNd(T) and TDM ages are compatible with dominance of a similar cratonic source for both sequences, probably the West Africa Craton. εNd565 values for the Ediacaran greywackes (−3.0 to −1.4) along with TDM ages (1256–1334 Ma) imply a significant contribution of juvenile material, probably derived from the erosion of the volcanic arc. However, εNd530 values in the Cambrian shales (−5.2 to −4.0) together with older TDM ages (1444–1657 Ma), suggest a higher contribution of cratonic isotopic sources, probably derived from erosion of the adjacent mainland. Coeval with the progressive cessation of arc volcanism along the peri-Gondwanan realm during the Cambrian, there was a period of more tectonic stability and increasing arrival of sediments from cratonic areas. The geochemistry of the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition in Central Iberia documents a tectonic switch in the periphery of Gondwana, from an active margin to a more stable context related to the onset of a passive margin.
Tectonic evolution of Variscan Iberia: Gondwana–Laurussia collision revisited
(Earth-Science Reviews, 2016) Díez Fernández, Rubén; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Pereira, M. Francisco; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Albert Roper, Richard; Martín Parra, Luis-Miguel; Rubio Pascual, Francisco-J.; Matas, Jerónimo
An integrated interpretation of the late Paleozoic structural and geochronological record of the Iberian Massif is presented and discussed under the perspective of a Gondwana-Laurussia collision giving way to the Variscan orogen. Compressional and extensional structures developed during the building of the Variscan orogenic crust of Iberia are linked together into major tectonic events operating at lithosphere scale. A review of the tectonometamorphic and magmatic evolution of the Iberian Massif reveals backs and forths in the overall convergence between Gondwana and Laurussia during the amalgamation of Pangea in late Paleozoic times. Stages dominated by lithosphere compression are characterized by subduction, both oceanic and continental, development of magmatic arcs, (over- and under-) thrusting of continental lithosphere, and folding. Variscan convergence resulted in the eventual transference of a large allochthonous set of peri-Gondwanan terranes, the Iberian Allochthon, onto the Gondwana mainland. The Iberian Allochthon bears the imprint of previous interaction between Gondwana and Laurussia, including their juxtaposition after the closure of the Rheic Ocean in Lower Devonian times. Stages governed by lithosphere extension are featured by the opening of two short-lived oceanic basins that dissected previous Variscan orogenic crust, first in the Lower-Middle Devonian, following the closure of the Rheic Ocean, and then in the early Carboniferous, following the emplacement of the peri-Gondwanan allochthon. An additional, major intra-orogenic extensional event in the early-middle Carboniferous dismembered the Iberian Allochthon into individual thrust stacks separated by extensional faults and domes. Lateral tectonics played an important role through the Variscan orogenesis, especially during the creation of new tectonic blocks separated by intracontinental strike-slip shear zones in the late stages of continental convergence.
Contrasting isotopic sources (Sm-Nd) of Late Ediacaran series in the Iberian Massif: Implications for the Central Iberian-Ossa Morena boundary
(Precambrian Research, 2019) Rojo-Pérez, Esther; Arenas Martín, Ricardo; Fuenlabrada Pérez, José Manuel; Sánchez Martínez, Sonia; Martín Parra, Luis Miguel; Matas, Jerónimo; Pieren Pidal, Agustín Pedro; Díez Fernández, Rubén
In the Iberian Massif, westernmost sector of the Variscan Orogen, the nature of the boundary between the Central Iberian Zone and the Ossa Morena Complex has been largely discussed. Peri-Gondwanan Ediacaran series similar in age (c. 565 Ma) but different in composition occur at both sides of that boundary. The Lower Alcudian Series (Central Iberian Zone) is located to the north, while the Serie Negra (Ossa-Morena Complex) can be found to the south of the boundary. Major and trace element compositions and Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of siliciclastic rocks from both series suggest a common active margin setting for their deposition, the Serie Negra likely occupying a more external (fore-arc) position within the arc-system relative to the Lower Alcudian Series, which would have been deposited within a large back-arc domain. TDM ages for these two series are notably different, yielding values of 1421–2040 Ma and 1256–1334 Ma for the Serie Negra and Lower Alcudian, respectively. These values suggest higher input from old cratonic sources in the Ossa Morena Complex, with probable participation of the West African Craton, which would be less prominent in the Central Iberia Zone. The whole data set indicate deposition of the Ediacaran series in separated basins, probably far away from each other along/across the margin of Gondwana. Current juxtaposition of these basins is explained by Variscan and probably also pre-Variscan tectonics. Similar conclusions could be also be extended to other similar boundaries in the Variscan Orogen.