The late thermal history of the Ronda area, southern Spain |
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| Authors: | Jos Julin Esteban Lourdes Snchez-Rodríguez Diane Seward Julia Cuevas Jos María Tubía |
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| Institution: | aDepartamento de Geodinámica, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco, a.p. 644, Bilbao 48080, Spain;bDepartment of Earth Sciences, ETH Zentrum, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland;cSarawak Shell Berhad, Locked bag nr. 1, 98008-Miri (Sarawak), Malaysia |
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| Abstract: | The Betic–Rif belt, in the western Mediterranean, experienced a pre-Alpine history and was later extensively reworked by major Alpine tectonics. There is abundant data showing that the Betic chain suffered very high cooling rates during its Alpine history, constrained mainly by geochronology using various isotopic systems and by palaeontological age determinations. In the westernmost part of the chain the high closure-temperature isotopic systems recorded Miocene high-grade metamorphism in the country rocks. In order to constrain the later stages of cooling, fission-track analysis has been applied to both zircon and apatite. The results point to extremely high rates of cooling (400 °C/Ma) between 21 and 19 Ma. Rates slowed to 100 °C/Ma for the time period 19 to about 12 Ma. The fission-track analysis also confirms the existence of an extensional tectonic stage between 19 and 17 Ma. |
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| Keywords: | Fission-track analysis Ronda peridotites Alpujarride Complex Betic Cordillera Cooling rates |
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