• journal_title：American Mineralogist
• Contributor：Alfonso Pesquera ; José Torres-Ruiz ; Pedro P. Gil-Crespo ; Encarnación Roda-Robles
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of America
• Date：2009-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.2138/am.2009.3100
• journal_abbrev：American Mineralogist
• issn：0003-004X
• volume：94
• issue：10
• firstpage：1468
• section：Articles

The Alamo Complex consists of structural-metamorphic domes surrounded by low-grade metasedimentary rocks of Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian age that form part of the Schist Graywacke Complex (Central Iberian Zone, Spain). Tourmaline is ubiquitous throughout the domes, in which it occurs in tourmalinites, psammo-pelitic schists, quartzites, gneisses, migmatites, leucogranites, aplo-pegmatites, and quartz veins. Overall, tourmaline compositions can be described within the four component system schorl-dravite-foitite-magnesiofoitite, with K₂O < 0.23%, low Ca contents, Mg/(Mg+Fe) = 0.25–0.71 and X/(X+Na) = 0.18–0.43, where X = vacancies in the X site. Field relations and petrographic observations, combined with tourmaline ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar data, provide evidence of intense boron metasomatism affecting this region. Tourmaline ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar step-heating spectra for Cambrian-Ordovician orthogneisses are complex, yielding a pseudo-plateau age of ~370 Ma that is interpreted to reflect Variscan rejuvenation of older tourmaline. Tourmaline ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar data for mylonitized and folded tourmalinites yield disturbed spectra with pseudo-plateau ages of ~355–342 Ma that are unsuitable for precise age determination. These ages, however, are consistent with published ages (340–350 Ma) for the second Variscan deformation (D₂). Tourmaline from fine-layered tourmalinite and metasedimentary rocks yield well-defined plateau ages of 317 and 315 Ma, respectively, recording an additional metasomatic event concomitant with anatexis and evolution of B-bearing granites, pegmatites, and hydrothermal fluids. The different tourmaline-forming stages reflect significant boron cycling within the continental crust of the Central Iberian Zone, driven by deformation, metamorphism, and magmatism during the Variscan orogeny. Boron-rich aqueous fluids related to Cambro-Ordovician magmatism are considered to be the primary source of boron.