Insights on high-grade deformation in quartzo-feldspathic gneisses during the early Variscan exhumation of the Cabo Ortegal nappe, NW Iberia

High-grade, highly deformed gneisses crop out continuously along the Masanteo peninsula and constitute the upper part of the lower crustal section in the Cabo Ortegal nappe (NW Spain). The rock sequence formed by migmatitic quartzo-feldspathic (qz-fsp) gneisses and mafic rocks records the early Ordo...

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Main Authors: F. J. Fernández, S. Llana-Fúnez, P. Valverde-Vaquero, A. Marcos, P. Castiñeiras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-04-01
Series:Solid Earth
Online Access:http://www.solid-earth.net/7/579/2016/se-7-579-2016.pdf