The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Variscan Cycle

   • J. F. Simancas

   Pages 1-25

3. The Cambrian-Early Ordovician Rift Stage in the Gondwanan Units of the Iberian Massif

   • T. Sánchez-García, M. Chichorro, A. R. Solá, J. J. Álvaro, A. Díez-Montes, F. Bellido et al.

   Pages 27-74

4. Early Ordovician–Devonian Passive Margin Stage in the Gondwanan Units of the Iberian Massif

   • J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, J. M. Piçarra, C. A. Meireles, P. Cózar, D. C. García-Bellido, Z. Pereira et al.

   Pages 75-98

5. Variscan Suture Zone and Suspect Terranes in the NW Iberian Massif: Allochthonous Complexes of the Galicia-Trás os Montes Zone (NW Iberia)

   • J. R. Martínez Catalán, J. Gómez Barreiro, Í. Dias da Silva, M. Chichorro, A. López-Carmona, P. Castiñeiras et al.

   Pages 99-130

6. SW Iberia Variscan Suture Zone: Oceanic Affinity Units

   • C. Quesada, J. A. Braid, P. Fernandes, P. Ferreira, R. S. Jorge, J. X. Matos et al.

   Pages 131-171

7. South Portuguese Terrane: A Continental Affinity Exotic Unit

   • J. T. Oliveira, C. Quesada, Z. Pereira, J. X. Matos, A. R. Solá, D. Rosa et al.

   Pages 173-206

8. The Finisterra-Léon-Mid German Cristalline Rise Domain; Proposal of a New Terrane in the Variscan Chain

   • N. Moreira, J. Romão, R. Dias, A. Ribeiro, J. Pedro

   Pages 207-228

9. Palaeozoic Basement of the Pyrenees

   • J. M. Casas, J. J. Álvaro, S. Clausen, M. Padel, C. Puddu, J. Sanz-López et al.

   Pages 229-259

10. Paleozoic Basement and Pre-Alpine History of the Betic Cordillera

    • A. Martín-Algarra, A. García-Casco, M. T. Gómez-Pugnaire, A. Jabaloy-Sánchez, C. Laborda-López, V. López Sánchez-Vizcaíno et al.

    Pages 261-305

11. Deformation and Structure

    • A. Azor, Í. Dias da Silva, J. Gómez Barreiro, E. González-Clavijo, J. R. Martínez Catalán, J. F. Simancas et al.

    Pages 307-348

12. Synorogenic Basins

    • J. T. Oliveira, E. González-Clavijo, J. Alonso, M. Armendáriz, J. R. Bahamonde, J. A. Braid et al.

    Pages 349-429

13. Variscan Metamorphism

    • M. L. Ribeiro, J. Reche, A. López-Carmona, C. Aguilar, T. Bento dos Santos, M. Chichorro et al.

    Pages 431-495

14. Variscan Magmatism

    • M. L. Ribeiro, A. Castro, A. Almeida, L. González Menéndez, A. Jesus, J. A. Lains et al.

    Pages 497-526

15. Late/Post Variscan Orocline Formation and Widespread Magmatism

    • Arlo Weil, D. Pastor-Galán, S. T. Johnston, G. Gutiérrez-Alonso

    Pages 527-542

16. Back Matter

    Pages 543-544

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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.

• Geodynamics
• Rifting and Spreading of the Rheic and Neotethys Oceans
• Controls on Basins Formation and Evolution
• Cadomian Orogeny
• Iberia and its Continental Margins
• Geology of Portugal
• Geology of Spain
• mineral resources

• Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME) and Faculty of Geological Sciences, Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Cecilio Quesada

• LNEG, Amadora, Portugal

  José Tomás Oliveira

Cecilio Quesada’s professional career was based at Instituto Geológico Minero de España (Spanish Geological Survey), until he retired from there in 2013. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, where he also served temporarily as an Associate Professor. As a “survey person”, his research interests, past and present, include geological mapping, regional geology, tectonics and geochronology, mainly focused on the Variscan orogen in its global context. He has participated in ten IGCP projects since 1979, and is currently involved in Project 648: Supercontinent cycles & Global Geodynamics.

José Tomás Oliveira holds a Ph.D. and Agregação (Portuguese postdoctoral degree). He is a geologist and is currently collaborating at Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia, former Geological Survey of Portugal, where he acted also as Head of the Geology and Mineral Resources departments. As a survey geologist, his main activities have focused on regional geological mapping in Portugal and Mozambique, with a particular interest in stratigraphy, clastic sedimentology and basin analysis. He has been an Invited Professor at universities in Portugal and Angola, author and editor of several geological maps, and was co-editor of the recently published Geological Map of Portugal and Spain, 2015, scale 1:1,000,000.

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