In Galicia, NW Spain, the Cabo Ortegal and Ordenes complexes and the Malpica-Tui Unit define a WNW-ESE continuous section across the suture zone (Fig.
Figure 3 shows the most important lithologies involved in the upper units in the Cabo Ortegal Complex; the Ordenes Complex may include an even greater lithological variety (Martinez Catalan et al., 2002).
Over the past 15 years, exploration activity for PGE in the Iberian Peninsula has led to the discovery of two PGE occurrences of very different types -- the Aguablanca Ni-Cu-PGE suiphide deposit [3,4,5] and the Cabo Ortegal PGE-bearing chromitites [6,7] Of most interest is Aguablanca which, in contrast to the low tonnage-high grade Cabo Ortegal mineralisation, has both economic and strategic potential.
(1999) Platinum-group elements and chromite mineralisation in ultramafic rocks: a case study from the Cabo Ortegal Complex, Northwest Spain.
Isla Malveira, Cabo
Ortegal, Carino, infralitoral (-7 m), epifito de Corallina officinalis y rizoides de L.
La melange tectonica basal del Complejo de Cabo
Ortegal (NW del Macizo Iberico): una unidad clave en la sutura de Pangea
En la mayor parte de los casos se asientan sobre suelos formados por la alteracion in situ de materiales rocosos siliceos, ya sean de tipo metamorfico (pizarras, filitas, areniscas, cuarcitas) o igneos (granitos y, en menor medida, granodioritas), aunque en algunas ocasiones lo hacen sobre sustratos basicos del denominado "Complejo del Cabo
Ortegal" o suelos desarrollados a partir de sedimentos cuaternarios antiguos, como acontece en diversas localidades de las areas lucense y asturiana de la rasa cantabrica y en la Ria del Eo (Igme, 1982, 1984; Itge, 1991).
North- and East-Iberian margins (
Ortegal Spur, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Pyrenees and Iberian Chain)