PID2020-114273GB-C21 (480MACIN)
Official start date: 1st September 2021
Official end date: 31st August 2025
The main objective of MACIN is to develop from a petrological perspective a multidisciplinary research (including structural geology, petrology, geochemistry, isotopic geochemistry, geochronology, and thermodynamic modelling) that aims to understand the tectono-magmatic setting of the Permo-Carboniferous magmatism of the Catalan Pyrenees. The origin of silicic magmas is nowadays under discussion, both the calc-alkaline magma formation, and their rheology and possible emplacement mechanisms. Therefore, the integration of structural and petrological techniques with geochemical and numerical modelling of fossil magma chambers can bring light to understanding of the emplacement mechanisms of silicic batholiths during different stages of orogenic cycles, and how this contributed to the evolution of the continental crust, as well as to the development of the coeval large-scale silicic volcanism and the quantification of mantle and crustal sources in the whole process.
Funding: MICINN. PID2020-114273GB-C2
Researchers: Eduard Saura (UAB), Jordi Cirés (ICGC), Montserrat Torné (GEO3BCN), Carmen López (IGN)
Support: Gerardo Aguirre (UNAM, Mexico), Bruno Scaillet (CNRS, France), Juan Andujar (CNRS, France), Carmen Rodríguez (IACT-CSIC)
