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Early Palaeozoic geodynamics in NW Gondwana

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During Ordovician times, the northwestern margin of Gondwana, in a transect linking the Anti-Atlas, the western and eastern branches of the Ibero-Armorican Arc and the Alps, recorded a stepwise succession of stratigraphic gaps, in some cases linked to magmatism, extensional tectonics, uplift and erosion. The Furongian (Toledanian) and Mid–Ordovician (Sardic) Phases are distinctly separated in time, but share the calc-alkaline-dominant affinities of their involved magmatism and the absence of some typical deformation properties, such as cleavage and metamorphism. The stratigraphic gaps related to uplift events and denudation have been interpreted as break-up (or rift/drift) unconformities, subduction-related orogenies or transpressive-transtensive events associated with hypothetical terranes that have not yet been found amalgamated to other orogens. This geodynamic framework is used to introduce the contributions of this special volume.

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A lo largo del Ordovícico, el margen noroccidental de Gondwana (que se extiende desde el Anti-Atlas a las ramas occidental y oriental del Arco Ibero-Armoricano) registró una sucesión escalonada de hiatos estratigáficos, en algún caso relacionado con actividad magmática y tectónica de tipo distensiva asociada a elevación cortical y registros erosivos. Aunque separadas cronológicamente, las fases geodinámicas toledánica del Furongiense y sárdica del Ordovícico medio comparten un magmatismo de afinidad calcoalcalina y la ausencia de algunos relacionados con deformaciones compresivas, como son la esquistosidad y el metamorfismo. Estas fases se caracterizan por hiatos estratigráficos relacionados con eventos de ascenso cortical, interpretados como discontinuidades de rotura de placa (rift/drift), orogenias que incluyen procesos de subducción o eventos transpresivo-transtensivos asociados con la influencia de supuestas microplacas que no se han encontrado todavía amalgamadas a ningún orógeno. Esta síntesis geodinámica sirve de marco común para la presentación de los trabajos incluidos en este volumen especial.

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The authors thank the constructive criticism made by two anonymous reviewers. Financial support for this work was provided by projects CGL2017-87631-P and CGL2015-66335-C2-1-R from Spanish MINECO, and by Facultat de Ciències de la Terra (Ajuts a la Recerca, covocatòria 2017) and Dept. de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà, Universitat de Barcelona.

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Álvaro, J.J., Casas, J.M., Clausen, S. et al. Early Palaeozoic geodynamics in NW Gondwana. J Iber Geol 44, 551–565 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-018-0079-x

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