Journal
TECTONOPHYSICS
Volume 681, Issue -, Pages 195-208Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.019
Keywords
Cantabrian arc; Paleomagnetism; Iberia; Variscan; Orocline
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Funding
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CGL2013-46061-P]
- Founding Program for Research Groups by the University of Salamanca
- Spanish Law of Science
- ISES, The Netherlands
- IGCP projects [597, 648]
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The Cantabrian orocline is a large structure that bends the Variscan orogen of Western Europe in NW Iberia. The extensively studied kinematics of its core, the foreland of the orogen, indicates that the structure is secondary, i.e. acquired after the formation of the orogenic edifice. However, the extent of the Cantabrian orocline away from its core is under debate. In this paper we study the kinematics of the Cantabrian orocline beyond the foreland. We collected and analyzed samples from the northern and central parts of the Truchas syncline, which provides new data within the hinterland of the orogen in NW Iberia. The analysis of 320 samples shows a late Carboniferous remagnetization with an E to NE declination and shallow downward inclinations. These results suggest a counter -clockwise rotation of similar to 60 degrees and peri-equatorial but still southern hemisphere latitude for Iberia during the uppermost Carboniferous-Early Permian. This rotation fits with the expected kinematic evolution of the Truchas syncline if it indeed was part of the Cantabrian orocline. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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