Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Abstract
AbstractThe Variscan structure of the Herrera unit (Iberian Chain, NE Spain) is characterized by a system of NNW–SSE-striking, east-verging, foreland-dipping thrusts, generated in a thin-skinned context, whose formation was favoured by the presence of two main detachment levels (Precambrian and Silurian shales). During the formation of the thrust system (first phase of deformation, D1), the thrust sheets were deformed internally, mainly by asymmetrical folds with axial surface cleavage and east-verging thrusts; the normal evolution of the thrust system and the emplacement of an underlying thrust sheet resulted in progressive tilting and stacking, thus generating a foreland-dipping thrust system. These structures were folded and tilted by the emplacement of the Datos thrust (second phase of deformation, D2), generating an associated deformation characterized by subvertical folds with axial surface cleavage, with slight east vergence. These structures can obliterate the previous D1 structures in the sector near the Datos thrust. D1 and D2 structures have not been observed in the same outcrops, but the relationship between bedding and cleavage as well as cleavage relationship with other structures allows discrimination between the two cleavage sets. Based on the features of Palaeozoic rocks of the Iberian Range and the Iberian Massif, we support the idea that the Herrera unit belongs to the Cantabrian Zone.
Publisher
Geological Society of London
Subject
Geology,Ocean Engineering,Water Science and Technology
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