Mapa Geotectonico Peninsula 2018 PDF

 

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INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LATIERRA

CSIC

MAIN GEOTECTONIC UNITS OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA and  Canary Islands

 Balearic Islands

 significant lithostratigraphic, tectonic and geomorphological characters charac ters 10ºW

8ºW

6ºW

4ºW

2ºW

0º

2ºE

4ºE

Cape Ortegal

Cantabrian

Cape Peñas

Sea

Massif  Central

 Aquitanian  Aquitan ian Basin

Bay of Biscay

Cape



Finisterre

Cant abr ian

Range

Galaico  Massif 



 A.Z. 

P   y r  re     n  e ne    a  e    n  a n 

42ºN

R a  an     g  n ge     e

      a

      r       o

 A.Z.

    m

Pr  ePy S r e PZ ne es

      a

 Z

n  in  Bas i  Duero 

                                &          a       c       n

     a

Cape of Creus

42ºN

E b  b r  ro     B  o a s  s i  in     n

    m

     a        l     a

     S

l an at a -C t al as o C

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   o  

   n      i    a     l

   p    e

 g e  R a n  a l l    r a  t r  n  e  C

  n   e

40ºN

   P

 n  s i n o  B a  T a j  o

 e      

P              

Cape Carboeiro

 n

 

 e

 E

 x

 t  

 r 

o T a j  o  r  T  L o w e    n n  i  s  a  B

38ºN

 

 l  

 a

  m        a n a  e        d i a    G u a ñ          a     

Cape de Sines i  n i  o 

 P 

40ºN

 e

  p   i n   l   A

 i

                                                                   t   

 

de   lo s  P edr  och es

 Lobo

 

 n  n  B a s i  r B  v i r  u i v    q q  l  a  d  G u a

        L 

E.Z.

>    

>      

>     

ean d i t e r  r r    a n Me Sea

    n  

     i  

>    

e Rang

>    

>   

>    

Cape La Nao

na Mor e

>     

>    

 Balearic Islands

 

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Sier r  ra   

Cape San Vicente

  o    i   t  m a  d e f o r

           v

u l o  d o

 

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         n  

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m 

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Ba toli to 

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Columbretes Islands

 

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 n  B a s i n

  n

 e

 

 t   f r o n

  n

 i  

ng Ra

Cape Tortosa

Range

  Iber ian

tains  Moun Toledo

  p

Bay of  Lyon

NPZ

  Betic

    l     P

   a  

GR N

3483 m

38ºN

N

Cape of Palos

>   

E

W

I.Z.

S

>  

 Atlantic Ocean

s Kabylia

simplified compilation according to the current bibliography

Gulf of  Cadiz

36ºN

Cape of Gata

 Alboran Sea

Gibraltar Strait

n T  Tel elll lgeria erian  Alg  A

Alboran Is.

e idg n R or a  Alb

Ceuta

36ºN

Oran

0

100

17ºW

Canary  Islands

16ºW

37ºN

Melilla

GharbBasin

200km

8ºW

AFRICA FORELAND 15ºW

14ºW

 Atlantic Ocean

24 Ma

Rif  4ºW

0º

Volcanism N-Q  :

3718 m

Calcium-alkaline and Calcium-alkaline potassium volcanism Peridotites

Mesozoic volcanic rocks

9 Ma 15 Ma

38ºN

2ºE

4ºE

37ºN

12 Ma

2 Ma

2ºW

Serpentinite

cortical incrustation: ?   Oligocene/Miocene 







 Late Hercynian  Hercynian 

38ºN

N

Lava and piroclasts: piroclasts: basalt, trachyte, and other mafic volcanic materials Basal Complexes: Complexes: Ultra-basic intrusive intrusive   rocks and felsic materials

Basaltic volcanism

Diapir Province and “mud volcanoes” 

1 Ma 1 8 ºW

17ºW

16ºW

15ºW

0

Normal fault

undifferentiated fault supposed fault

Movement of the oceanic crust 

100km

Extensional fault

Strike-slip fault

 >      

 >      

Olistostrome front at subsoil and under sea

 >      

continental margin



Significant thrusts

Extensional fault

Preferential transport

Significant thrusts

Oceanic dorsal in expansion

Extensional fault (normal / direct) direct ) or listric fault 

Alpine Orogeny

Varisca Orogeny  platform materials

Tertiary  /Q  /Q Continental Basins

Cenozoic and Mesozoic 

Continental basins and 

 N  S Pyrenees  Areas

VascoCantabrian Zone

Mesozoic Cover little or nothing deformed

Iberian Range and Catalanides

Meso-Cenozoic Cover of the Iberian the Iberian Foreland  E.Z.

Alpine chains

 

I.Z.

e om str  sto Oli

West-Asturian Leonese Zone

Cantabrian Zone

Iberian Massif < 16 > Variscan

Betic Range External and Internal. Zones

Gravitational and heterogeneus material   tectonic mélange

1

2

Messejana-Plasencia dyke

 Flysch Units

Central Iberian Zone

 

 Jurassic 

Galicia Tras os Montes Z . mphibolites, oldest rock of

I.P.

Polymetamorphic complex de 1160  Ma

3

Porphyric materials: Fm. “Ollo “Ollo de Sapo” Sapo”  orthogneisses glandular 

4

Hercynian

Paleozoic and  Precambrian P

South Portuguese and Andévalo

Ossa Morena

C

 Iberian Foreland 

5

Zone

6

 Neo & Meso

PROTEROZOICO

 Axial Zone Pyrenees Zone Pyrenees and Catalan Coastal Range (Paleozoic Basement) Basement) 

 AZ

PC

more areas outside the Axial Z.

Zone

Predominant materials: Edaphological meaning 

Cenozoic:  sandy sediments

The

Meso-Cenozoic Cobertera and Betic Betic (  (E E.Z.): calcareous rocks (sedimentary and metamorphic) metamorphic)

strike of the contacts and the tectonic elements is indicative

 simplified compilation according to the

current bibliography 

?

in discussion

Iberian Massif (1-5 1-5)), A.Z. Pyrenees and Catalan C.Range siliceous rocks (igneous and metamorphic) metamorphic)

Betic(I.Z.) and S.P.Zone Betic( Zone((6) siliceous and calcareous

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Compiler by : A.Caballero I.A.C.T. (CSIC-UGR),2018  [email protected]

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URL: https://digital.csic.es/cris/ csic.es/cris/rp/rp06041 rp/rp06041

 Reviser: Carlos S. de Galdeano, CSIC/UGR