Microstructural evidences for thermal runaway and deep palaeoseismic activity (Cabo Ortegal,NW Spain) |
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| Authors: | P Puelles B balos J I Gil Ibarguchi |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The occurrence of high‐pressure granulite facies tectonites with features at the outcrop and thin section scale, characteristic of both pseudotachylytes and ultramylonites, is reported in the Cabo Ortegal complex (NW Spain). We interpret that these rocks formed due to a seismic event at great depth (1.4 GPa) under high‐temperature conditions (740 °C). Shear heating and thermal runaway mechanism would have been responsible for the failure of the still hot and mechanically rigid granulites and provoked melt formation and the accumulation at dilatational jogs. Ambient high P and T conditions would have led to subsequent recrystallization of the previously formed melt accounting for the present weak planar fabric. |
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