RT Journal Article
T1 P-T evolution and refined U-Pb geochronology of the giant eclogite layer of the Cabo Ortegal Complex (NW Iberian Massif)
A1 Novo Fernández, Irene
A1 Albert, R.
A1 Arenas Martín, Ricardo
A1 Gil Ibarguchi, José Ignacio
A1 Sánchez Martínez, Sonia
A1 Gerdes, Axel
A1 Díez Fernández, Rubén
A1 Beranoaguirre, A.
A1 Garcia Casco, Antonio
AB In the Cabo Ortegal Complex (NW Iberian Massif), a 20 km long and 700 m thick layer of eclogites constitutes one of the world's largest outcrops of this type of rocks. It belongs to the Upper Allochthon, a terrane that represents the remnants of a Cambrian peri-Gondwanan fore-arc basin that was involved in the Variscan collision. In this layer, three types of eclogites are differentiated according to their mineralogy and bulk composition: the common, the ferrotitaniferous, and the Al-Mg-rich eclogites. This work studies the three types of eclogites via thermodynamic modelling. The ferric content of the bulk composition during the metamorphic peak is analyzed, the results demonstrating a strong influence on the metamorphic paragenesis in two of the three types. Isochemical equilibrium phase diagrams in the MnNCKFMASTHO system indicate metamorphic peak conditions of c. 23–25 kbar at c. 750–800 °C prior to a decompression up to c. 16–20 kbar. Usingle bondPb dating in zircon crystals (LA-ICP-MS) from an eclogite yields an age of c. 390 Ma for the high-P metamorphism. All this indicates deep subduction of the peri-Gondwanan realm at the onset of the Variscan Orogeny during Early Devonian. The results are used to discuss the stacking of units that constitute the Upper Allochthon and envisage the processes that contributed to their exhumation.
PB Elsevier
SN 0024-4937
YR 2025
FD 2025-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118531
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118531
LA eng
NO Novo-Fernández, I., Albert, R., Arenas, R., Gil Ibarguchi, J. I., Sánchez Martínez, S., Gerdes, A., Díez Fernández, R., Beranoaguirre, A., & Garcia-Casco, A. (2025). P-T evolution and refined U Pb geochronology of the giant eclogite layer of the Cabo Ortegal Complex (Nw iberian massif). Lithos, 496-497, 107952
NO MCIN/AEI
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
DS Docta Complutense
RD 30 dic 2025