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dc.contributor.authorGutiérrez-Alonso, G.
dc.contributor.authorCollins, A.
dc.contributor.authorFernández-Suárez, J.
dc.contributor.authorPastor-Galán, D.
dc.contributor.authorGonzález-Clavijo, E.
dc.contributor.authorJourdan, Fred
dc.contributor.authorWeil, A.
dc.contributor.authorJohnston, S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:52:59Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:52:59Z
dc.date.created2015-10-29T04:09:12Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationGutiérrez-Alonso, G. and Collins, A. and Fernández-Suárez, J. and Pastor-Galán, D. and González-Clavijo, E. and Jourdan, F. and Weil, A. et al. 2015. Dating of lithospheric buckling: 40Ar/39Ar ages of syn-orocline strike-slip shear zones in northwestern Iberia. Tectonophysics. 643: pp. 44-54.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41548
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.tecto.2014.12.009
dc.description.abstract

Orogenic curvature is a ubiquitous feature of mountain belts, and the plate tectonic and geodynamic setting responsible for the development of curved orogens is a subject of debate. In order to distinguish between different models of orocline formation it is necessary to tightly constrain the absolute timing of oroclinal development. However, determining the absolute (isotopic) timing of oroclinal bending is challenging. The most direct method available to constrain the time interval during which an orocline formed is to obtain absolute age constraints on fabrics generated within syn-orocline strike–slip shear zones that accommodated rotations around a vertical axis during the development of crustal or lithospheric scale orogenic curvature. Here we present a data set of 40Ar/39Ar ages obtained from five shear-zones, some of which display curved traces parallel to the Cantabrian Orocline structural grain in NW Iberia and are interpreted to have been generated coevally to it. The 40Ar/39Ar ages were obtained by laser-rastering induced step-heating on single muscovite crystals that grew synkinematically during shearing. All five samples yielded ages that cluster tightly at 308 ± 3 Ma providing direct evidence for the age of oroclinal bending. This age is consistent with the age constraints obtained from paleomagnetic and structural data that place the onset of oroclinal bending in Moscovian times. Our 40Ar/39Ar age determinations therefore provide a reliable absolute constraint on the age of buckling of the Variscan orogen around a vertical axis and provide further evidence that oroclinal bending is unrelated to Variscan convergence/collision or the subsequent extensional collapse of the mountain belt.

dc.publisherElsevier
dc.titleDating of lithospheric buckling: 40Ar/39Ar ages of syn-orocline strike-slip shear zones in northwestern Iberia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume643
dcterms.source.startPage44
dcterms.source.endPage54
dcterms.source.issn0040-1951
dcterms.source.titleTectonophysics
curtin.departmentDepartment of Applied Geology
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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