Proterozoic amphibolites from Central Sector of Ossa Morena Zone: geochemistry and geodynamics implications

[Resumen] Las anfibolitas objeto de este estudio aparecen en la Sucesión Montemolín, correspondiente al Proterozoico Superior del sector central de la Ossa-Morena. Esta Sucesión está constituida por una alternancia de esquistos y cuarzo-esquistos biotíticos con pasadas anfibolíticas que se hacen más abundantes hacia el techo. En conjunto, presenta un metamorfismo regional progresivo que varía desde el grado bajo-muy bajo hasta muy alto en el núcleo migmático de Monesterio y está caracterizado por gradientes de altas temperaturas y bajas presiones. Petrográficamente las anfibolitas se pueden dividir en varios grupos, tanto desde el punto de vista textural como desde el mineralógico, variando desde anfibolitas con actinolita-clorita a anfibolitas con hornblenda marrón y piroxeno, desapareciendo progresivamente los rasgos texturales de rocas ígneas. Desde el punto de vista de su geoquímica presentan una afinidad oceánica, la mayoría de ellas similares a basaltos de tipo MORB, que se asemejaría a los N-MORE según la distribución de tierras raras. Estas anfibolitas podrían corresponder a toleítas de arco de islas. Se presentan datos de otras anfibolitas de zonas próximas a fin de comparar tanto su quimismo como su posible ambiente geodinámico.[Abstract] The amphibolites studied herein crop out in the Montemolín Series from Upper Proterozoic of the Ossa-Morena. This succesion is made of alternating biotitic schists and quartz-schists with interbedded amphibolites more common toward the top. The ensemble shows a regional, progressive metamorphism which varies from very low -low-grade up to high-grade conditions at the Monesterio migmatic core and is characterized by high - T and Low- P gradients. From a petrographic point of view amphibolites may be divided into sorne groups on the basis of both textural or mineralogical criteria. Actinolite-chloriteamphibolites are observed to grade into brown hornblende and pyroxenebearing amphibolites, the primary textural features of protoliths progressively disappearing. Geochemical affinities of these rocks are oceanic, most of the MORB basalts being similar to N-MORB-types on the basis ofREE distributions. They could be ascribed to island-arc tholeiites. Geochemical data from other amphibolites at neighbouring areas are also presented with the aim of comparing their compositions as well as their geodynamic setting

The Monasterio thrust (Ossa-Morena Area) Microstructures and geodynamic implications

[Resumen] El cabalgamiento de Monesterio (EGUILUZ, 1988) se situa en el sector central de la antiforma de igual nombre y ha sido reconocido en un trayecto de más de 30 Km desde el SE de Fregenal de la Sierra hasta la Venta del Culebrín, al Se de Monesterio. Se trata de un accidente dúctil o frágil-dúctil que superpone un conjunto de cuarzoesquistos biotíticos de gradio medio a alto, metapelitas y granitoides anatécticos (Sucesión de Montemolín) sobre una serie de metagrauvacas y pizarras volcanoclásticas con cuarcitas negras (Sucesión Tentudia), de grado bajo a muy bajo. Este accidente se produce durante la primera fase de deformación hercínica y corta dos quistosidades previas desarrolladas en los materiales proterozoicos. Puede considerarse como una posible zona de raíz de los pliegues tumbados que afectan a las series del Paleozoico inferior ampliamente representadas en el flanco meridional de la antiforma de Monesteiro (sector Oliva de la Frontera-Higuera la Real). El cabalgamiento lleva asociadas estructuras penetrativas en una amplia zona que, en cartografía, tiene una anchura superior a los 6 Km en el bloque superior y a los 2 Km en el inferior. Este accidente corta a distintos materiales, lo que da lugar al desarrollo de rocas miloníticas de tipos variados[Abstract] The Monesterio Thrust (EGUILUZ, 1988) is situated at the central area of the Monesterio antiform (SW Iberian Massif). It has been identified for more than 30 Km, from SE Fregenal de la Sierra to Venta del Culebrín (to the SE 01 Monesterio). This is a ductile to brittle-ductile thrust where medium -to high- grade quarzschists, anatectic metapelites and granitoids (Montemolín Succession) override a low -to very low- grade group made of meta-graywackes and 'volcanoclastic slates with interbedded black quartzites (Tentudía Succession). Thrusting takes place during the hercynian first deformation phase and crosscuts two previous schistosities developed within proterozoic materials. The Monesterio Thrust can ben regarded as the root of large, Upper Paleozoic recumbent folds affecting Lower Paleozoic series outcropping in the southern limb of the Monesterio antiform (Oliva de la Frontera-Higuera de Llerena area). The thrust associates penetrative structures over an areally wide hand which attains up to 6 Km width in the upper, allochthon block, and up to 2 Km in the autochthon. Many kinds of materials are cross-cut, giving rise to the generation on a varied set of mylonitic rocks

Study of electrocrystallization of Ni and Ni-P on platinum ultramicroelectrode

This work describes a comparative study of the electrocrystallization of Ni and Ni-P on Pt ultramicroelectrodes using chronoamperometric measurements. It was possible to confirm that in all cases a progressive nucleation was the predominant mechanism. Moreover, the application of the Atomistic Theory to the experimental rate of nuclei formation showed that the number of atoms in the critical nucleus was zero, except for Ni-P on Pt at low overpotentials were a value of one was observed. Furthermore, the physical characterisation of the different deposits on Pt by atomic force microscopy allowed observing the coalescence of the hemispherical nuclei of Ni and Ni-P at t max thus confirming the results obtained from the current-time analysis.CNP

Cartography, petrology and geochemistry of Cerro Mogabar_pluton, batholith of Los Pedroches (Córdoba, Spain)

[Resumen ]El plutón del Cerro Mogábar forma parte de la asociaci6n magmática del batolito de Los Pedroches. Está constituido por adamellitas porfídicas de grano fino, granitos porfídicos de grano grueso y leucogranitos; el conjunto ígneo se completa con un cortejo filoniano, compuesto básicamente por diques de composición granítica, aplitas, pegmatitas y diques de cuarzo.Las rocas que componen el plutón del Cerro Mogábar, son el extremo aluminoso de una asociaci6n alumínico-cafémica, de tendencia calcoalcalina (o granodiorítica), que evoluciona desde términos ranodioríticos (plutón granodiorítico de Los Pedroches) hasta términos leucograníticos. La asociación aluminico-cafémica calco-alcalina, integra, en una única serie de diferenciaci6n, a los grupos de rocas mayoritarios que componen el batolito de Los Pedroches.[Abstract] The Cerro Mogábar pluton forms a part of Los Pedroches Batholith magmatic association. It is constituted by fine-grained, porphyritic adamellite, coarsegrained porphyritic granite and leucogranites. This igneous ensemble is completed with a mainly granitic dyke swarm, aplites, pegmatites and quartz veins. Rocks from the Mogábar pluton are the aluminous of an aluminic-cafemic association of calcalkaline (or granodioritic) affinities which evolves from granodiorite to leucogranitic terms. The alumino-cafemic, calcalkaline association integrates within a single differentiation series the main rocks which compound Los Pedroches Batholit

Materiales silico-carbonosos en el Precámbrico de Sierra Morena

[Resumen] Se aborda, por primera vez, un estudio comparativo de las cuarcitas negras del Precámbrico de Sierra Morena, evidenciando su carácter de rocas sílico-carbonosas, asociadas a sucesiones con importantes aportes volcánicos y producidas por precipitaci6n química-bioquímica de sílice en medios marinos someros y restringidos. Se discute su distribuci6n, valor en la correlación es tratigráfica, evoluci6n textural con el aumento del metamorfismo y la deformación y algunos de los caracteres generales de su quimismo y mineralogíaAbstract] A comparative study of the black quarzites of the Precambrian of Sierra ~orena is atte~pted here for the 'first time, which reveals their character of silicacarbonaceous rocks related to succesion with important volcanic contributions and produced by chemical-biochemical precipitacion of silica in restricted and shallow marine environments. It is discussed their distribution value in .stratigraphical correlation, textural evolution with increasing rnetamorfism ando deformation, and sorne of the general character of its chemistry and mineralog

Revisiting geochemical data from the Ossa-Morena Zone peralkaline rocks: New insights on petrogenesis during the Cambrian-Ordovician rift-related alkaline magmatism in the Iberian Massif

In SW Iberia (namely in the northernmost domains of Ossa-Morena Zone [OMZ]), NW-SE lineaments of peralkaline igneous massifs are found, known to have been emplaced during the Cambrian-Ordovician rift-related magmatic stage of the Variscan extension in northern Gondwana. In the Portuguese counterpart of the OMZ, these rocks can be found in two distinct tectono-stratigraphic segments, namely the Blastomylonitic Belt (BB) and in the Alter do Chão – Elvas Sector (ACES), intruding Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian successions (further extending to the Spanish side). Though the peralkaline magmas are coeval, some contrasting geochemical features allow a well-marked distinction between rocks located in the BB and ACES, which may provide sustained inferences on the petrogenesis and geotectonic framework. The BB rocks composition fit within the phonolite-trachyte spectrum, and show affinities with “within-plate” and A1-type granitoids. On the other hand, rocks from the ACES display trachyte to alkaline rhyolite compositions, chemical features of A2-type granitoids and “anomalous ocean ridge granite” tectonic setting of emplacement. However, within the ACES there are exceptions, as three massifs appear to have the same chemical signatures of the BB. Lithogeochemical data suggest the Ossa- Morena Zone alkaline melts (i) could be extracted from distinct sources, and/or (ii) underwent different degrees of fractionation along with variable crustal assimilation. In addition to lithogeochemistry data, further mineralogical and isotopic studies will be addressed to better understand and provide sustained inferences on the development of the northern OMZ peralkaline magmatism and related ore-forming systems

Inherited arc signature in Ediacaran and Early Cambrian basins of

Geochemical data from clastic rocks of the Ossa-Morena Zone (Iberian Massif) show that the main source for the Ediacaran and the Early Cambrian sediments was a recycled Cadomian magmatic arc along the northern Gondwana margin. The geodynamic scenario for this segment of the Avalonian-Cadomian active margin is considered in terms of three main stages: (1) The 570–540 Ma evolution of an active continental margin evolving oblique collision with accretion of oceanic crust, a continental magmatic arc and the development of related marginal basins; (2) the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian transition (540–520 Ma) coeval with important orogenic magmatism and the formation of transtensional basins with detritus derived from remnants of the magmatic arc; and (3) Gondwana fragmentation with the formation of Early Cambrian (520–510 Ma) shallow-water platforms in transtensional grabens accompanied by rift-related magmatism. These processes are comparable to similar Cadomian successions in other regions of Gondwanan Europe and Northwest Africa. Ediacaran and Early Cambrian basins preserved in the Ossa-Morena Zone (Portugal and Spain), the North Armorican Cadomian Belt (France), the Saxo-Thuringian Zone (Germany), the Western Meseta and the Western High-Atlas (Morocco) share a similar geotectonic evolution, probably situated in the same paleogeographic West African peri-Gondwanan region of the Avalonian-Cadomian active margin