La evolución tectónica de la ofiolita del Careón (Orógeno varisco, NW España)
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1999
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Universidad de Oviedo
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González del Tánago del Río, J. et al. (1999) «La evolución tectónica de la ofiolita del Careón (Orógeno varisco, NW España)», Trabajos de Geología, 21, pp. 67-78.
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RESUMEN: El estudio de la ofiolita del Careón aporta datos sobre la naturaleza de un océano Paleozoico y sobre los primeros estadios de la formación de la cordillera Varisca. La ofiolita, de edad Devónico Inferior, se compone de una parte mantélica de composición harzburgítica y dunítica serpentinizadas, y de una parte cortical constituida por gabros de grano grueso y pegmatoides. Ambas fueron intruídas por numerosos diques de diabasa. Los procesos de convergencia se iniciaron poco tiempo después de la formación de la corteza oceánica y aparecen registrados en un abanico de cabalgamientos imbricados y enraizados en el manto. La exhumación de la ofiolita se produjo mediante el desarrollo de despegues extensionales en la parte superior del complejo de acreción, que son simultáneos con cabalgamientos desarrollados en la parte inferior, y que afectaron al margen continental de Gondwana.
ABSTRACT: The study of the Careón ophiolite has supplied with data concerning the characteristics of a Paleozoic oceanic lithosphere and the earliest subduction-related variscan events. The ophiolite, of Lower Devonian age, consists of a serpentinized harzburgite and dunite lower section and of a crustal section made up of coarse-grained gabbros. Both sections were intruded by a large number of dikes. Convergence processes took place shortly afterward oceanic crust generation, giving rise to a mantle-rooted synthetic thrust system. The exhumation of the ophiolite occurred by continuous development of extensional detachments in the upper part of the accretionary wedge coeval with underthrusting of the continental margin of Gondwana.
ABSTRACT: The study of the Careón ophiolite has supplied with data concerning the characteristics of a Paleozoic oceanic lithosphere and the earliest subduction-related variscan events. The ophiolite, of Lower Devonian age, consists of a serpentinized harzburgite and dunite lower section and of a crustal section made up of coarse-grained gabbros. Both sections were intruded by a large number of dikes. Convergence processes took place shortly afterward oceanic crust generation, giving rise to a mantle-rooted synthetic thrust system. The exhumation of the ophiolite occurred by continuous development of extensional detachments in the upper part of the accretionary wedge coeval with underthrusting of the continental margin of Gondwana.