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Alternating crustal architecture in West Iberia: A review of its significance in the context of NE Atlantic rifting

Pereira, Ricardo, Alves, Tiago Marcos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2765-3760 and Mata, Joao 2017. Alternating crustal architecture in West Iberia: A review of its significance in the context of NE Atlantic rifting. Journal of the Geological Society 174 (3) , pp. 522-540. 10.1144/jgs2016-050

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Abstract

The crustal architecture of the Western Iberian Margin is investigated so that the relationship between synrift intra-plate segmentation, magmatic events and subsequent margin convergence can be discussed in the context of the evolution of the Central–North Atlantic Ocean. The evidence in this paper indicates distinct crustal architectures for NW Iberia (lower-plate) and SW Iberia (upper-plate), as shown by (1) the different geometries of the rotated tilt-blocks across thinned continental crust, (2) the distinct dips of deep crustal detachments and (3) the presence of first-order strike-slip zones bounding different crustal segments. We demonstrate that a switch in the dip direction of the crustal detachment is accomplished by accommodating persistent transcurrent deformation along first-order transfer zones and associated uplifted hinges, both of which accommodated synrift displacement and post-rift margin inversion. This alternating architecture explains why recurrent magmatism is conspicuously located on the upper-plate margin, which we consider to have favoured, in discrete pulses, the emplacement of magma. Finally, the crustal detachment underlying the upper-plate is interpreted to have been reactivated since the Eocene as the weak zone accommodating ocean–continent convergence and the putative onset of margin subduction.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subjects: Q Science > QE Geology
Publisher: The Geological Society
ISSN: 0016-7649
Funders: Partex Oil and Gas
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Date of Acceptance: 19 October 2016
Last Modified: 02 Nov 2022 09:49
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/96468

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