A precise late Permian 40Ar/39Ar age for Central Iberian camptonitic lamprophyres Scarrow, Jane Hannah Bea Barredo, Fernando González Montero, Pilar Molina Palma, José Francisco Vaughan, Alan P. M. 40Ar/39Ar dating Lamprophyres Variscan Central Iberia Transtension The Avila batholith of central Spain is composed, predominantly, of crustal-melt peraluminous granites cut by small-scale mafic alkaline bodies. Dating of the Gredos sector mafic camptonitic lamprophyre dykes was undertaken to constrain the Late Variscan tectonomagmatic evolution of the region. A well constrained late Permian, Capitanian, age of 264.5 ± 0.9 Ma was obtained by 40Ar/39Ar geochronology using amphibole separates. This new age clearly distinguishes the dykes from other episodes of alkaline mafic magmatism in the region. We suggest that the lamprophyre dykes were emplaced into already solidified granitoids after the tectonic control on magma generation changed from purely extensional to transtensional. 2014-06-02T07:25:50Z 2014-06-02T07:25:50Z 2006 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Scarrow, J.H.; et al. A precise late Permian 40Ar/39Ar age for Central Iberian camptonitic lamprophyres. Geologica Acta, 4(4): 451-459 (2006). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32071] 1695-6133 1696-5728 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32071 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Barcelona; Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera