An igneous complex (ca. 130 km2) located in the southern Ossa-Morena Zone of the SW Iberian Massif (Variscan Foldbelt, Spain).

Four main plutonic intrusions and two dyke swarms are discerned within the complex. The rocks are gabbro, gabbrodiorite, diorite, quartzdiorite, quartzmonzodiorite, tonalite, monzogranite, rhyolite, trachyte, latite, andesite and basalt.

Covers mainly the municipality Valencia del Ventoso and the comarca Sierra Suroeste.

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References

Pons, J. (1982). Un modèle d’évolution de complexes plutonics: gabbros et granitoïdes de la Sierra Morena occidental (Espagne). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toulouse, France, 451pp.

Sarrionandia, Fernando; Carracedo, Manuel; Eguíluz, Luis; Junguitu, Josu; Lobo, Pedro; Gil Ibarguchi, José Ignacio (2013) Geologic map of the Valencia del Ventoso Variscan igneous complex (SW Iberian Massif, Spain): an example of multi-stage intrusion building by contrasted magma compositions. Journal of Maps, 9 (4). 498-504 doi:10.1080/17445647.2013.820675 (Map: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1080%2F17445647.2013.820675&file=tjom_a_820675_sm7240.pdf)

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