Mississippian olistostromes of Iberia revisited: tectonic drivers of synorogenic carbonate platform/reef destruction
Ícaro Dias da Silva,
Manuel Francisco Pereira,
Emílio González Clavijo
et al.
Abstract:A review of the synorogenic basins formed on the Gondwana side of the Variscan orogen of Iberia is presented, highlighting the widespread ocurrence of calciturbiditic formations and olistostromes containing reef-limestone olistoliths in Iberia's Variscan basins. Using key-examples from the Variscan orogen for comparison (Azrou-Khenifra and Rhenohercynian basins), the significance of these olistostromes and flyschoid deposits is discussed. Our tectonic models of the Variscan belt in Iberia propose possible driv… Show more
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