Phase diagram sections applied to amphibolites: a case study from the Ossa-Morena/Central Iberian Variscan suture (Southwestern Iberian Massif)

• Published in: Lithos Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21
• Main Authors: López Sánchez-Vizcaı́no, V., Gómez-Pugnaire, M.T., Azor, A., Fernández-Soler, J.M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.05.2003
• Subjects: Eclogite facies; Fluid phase; Metabasites; Pseudosections; Variscan belt; Variscan belt; Eclogite facies; Metabasites; Fluid phase; Pseudosections

Amphibolites included in the Ossa-Morena/Central Iberian suture of SW Iberia offer the opportunity of investigating the subduction and collision events, followed by exhumation, which affected this major boundary during the Variscan orogeny. This suture contact is marked by a band of highly deformed...