Ícaro F. Dias da Silva
Profile
Research Group: RG3 – Solid Earth dynamics
Position at IDL: Researcher
Job: Assistant Researcher
Email: ifsilva@fc.ul.pt
Telephone Number: (351) 21-750-0000
Extension: 26357
Room: 6.3.57
Academic Degree and field of specialization:
European Ph.D. in Geology by the Universidad de Salamanca (2013)
Degree in Geology in the Universidade de Lisboa (2004)
As a field-based geologist with expertise in Geological Mapping and Structural Geology, I develop my work in the Variscan Basement rocks of Iberia. My present research interest is the Geodynamic evolution of the Lower Palaeozoic seas and the construction and collapse of the Variscan Orogen: their repercussion for the formation of the European crust. Since my doctoral formation in the University of Salamanca and in the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, I’ve been working in the NW Iberia allochthonous terranes (Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone) and their relative autochthon (Central Iberian Zone) where I have improved my scientific knowledge, on Structural Geology, Tectonics (macro and micro), Stratigraphy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geological GIS and databases, U-Pb zircon Geochronology, Sedimentology and Geochemistry (as a researcher of the public research body or as a consultant geologist working for the industry). In my current position as a post-doctoral integrated member in IDL (Instituto Dom Luiz, University of Lisbon) I’m also researching in Ossa-Morena Zone (southern Portugal), namely the tectono-metamorphic evolution and the pre- to syn-Variscan stratigraphic record. The major objectives are: a) the correlation of the Palaeozoic stratigraphic records in the different Variscan Iberian realms and their continuation in other sectors of Europe, since they belonged to the same continental margin (N-Gondwana) before the Variscan continental collision during the Lower Devonian-Upper Carboniferous; b) The dating and correlation of the tectono-metamorphic phenomena associated to Orogen building and destruction described not only in the different terranes of Iberia but also in other sectors of the Variscan belt.
Scientific Informations
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0185-9410
SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55508256500
Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/2762779/icaro-frois-dias-da-silva/
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Icaro_Dias_da_Silva
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=avCjkxIAAAAJ&hl=es
Website: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/icaro-dias-da-silva/
Scientific Interests
Main Interests:
Construction and collapse of Orogens: Past and present
Synorogenic basin development
Paleogeographic and tectonic modeling
Reconstruction of deformation and metamorphic events
Margin evolution of diverging continents
Top 10 Publications:
Dias da Silva, Í., González Clavijo, E., Díez-Montes, A., 2020. The collapse of the Variscan belt: a Variscan lateral extrusion thin-skinned structure in NW Iberia. International Geology Review, 1-37. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2020.1719544
Pereira, M.F., Gama, C., Dias da Silva, Í., Silva, J.B., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., Gärtner, A., 2020. Chronostratigraphic framework and provenance of the Ossa-Morena Zone Carboniferous basins (southwest Iberia). Solid Earth 11, 1291-1312. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1291-2020
Pastor-Galán, D., Dias da Silva, Í., Groenewegen, T., Krijgsman, W., 2019. Tangled up in folds: tectonic significance of superimposed folding at the core of the Central Iberian curve (West Iberia). International Geology Review 61, 240-255. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2017.1422443
Dias da Silva, Í., Pereira, M. F., Silva, J. B., Gama, C. 2018. Time-space distribution of silicic plutonism in a gneiss dome of the Iberian Variscan Belt: The Évora Massif (Ossa-Morena Zone, Portugal). Tectonophysics 747-748, 298-317. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.10.015.
Dias da Silva, Í., Gómez-Barreiro, J., Martínez Catalán, J.R., Ayarza, P., Pohl, J., Martínez, E. 2017. Structural and microstructural analysis of the Retortillo Syncline (Variscan belt, Central Iberia). Implications for the Central Iberian Orocline. Tectonophysics 717:99-115. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.07.015
González Clavijo, E., Dias da Silva, Í., Gutierrez-Alonso, G., Díez-Montes, A. 2016. U/Pb age of a large dacitic block locked in an Early Carboniferous synorogenic mélange in the Parautochthon of NW Iberia: new insights on the structure/sedimentation Variscan interplay Tectonophysics, 681, 159-169. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.001.
Dias da Silva, Í., Díez Fernández, R., Díez-Montes, A., González Clavijo, E., Foster, D. A. 2016. Magmatic evolution in the N-Gondwana margin related to the opening of the Rheic Ocean—evidence from the Upper Parautochthon of the Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone and from the Central Iberian Zone (NW Iberian Massif). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105, 1127-1151. doi: 10.1007/s00531-015-1232-9.
Dias da Silva, Í., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., González-Clavijo, E., Díez-Montes, A., Martínez Catalán, J.R. 2015. Detrital zircon and tectonostratigraphy of the Parautochthon under the Morais Complex (NE Portugal): implications for the Variscan accretionary history of the Iberian Massif, Journal of the Geological Society, 171, 6, 45-61. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492014-005.
Dias da Silva, Í., Jensen, S., González Clavijo, E., 2014. Trace fossils from the Desejosa Formation, Freixo de Espada à Cinta area, northeast Portugal; new age constraints on the upper part of the Douro Group, Geologica Acta, 12, 109-120, doi: 10.1344/105.000002080.
Dias da Silva, Í., Valverde-Vaquero, P., González Clavijo, E., Díez Montes, A., Martínez Catalán, J. R. 2014. Structural and stratigraphical significance of U-Pb ages from the Mora and Saldanha volcanic complexes (NE Portugal, Iberian Variscides). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 405, 115-135, doi: 10.1144/SP405.3
Projects (10 most relevant):
La sutura Varisca en el NO de Iberia: correlación a lo largo de los arcos Ibero-Armoricano y Centroibérico; edades, mecanismos y modelos (CGL2016-78560-P)
Institution: Universidad de Salamanca
Head Researchers: Juan Gómez Barreiro e José Ramón Martínez Catalán (Universidad de Salamanca)
Start date: 2017 End date: 2020
IGCP Project 648- Supercontinent Cycle and Global Geodynamics
Institution: UNESCO
Head Researchers: Zheng-Xiang Li (Curtin University, Australia); David Evans (Yale University, USA); Shijie Zhong (University of Colorado, USA); Bruce Eglington (University of Saskatchewan, Canada); Sergei Pisarevsky (Curtin University, Australia)
Start date: 2015 End date: 2018
GOLD – Granites, Orogenesis, Long-term strain/stress, and Deposition of ore metals – PTDC/GEO-GEO/2446/2012
Institution: Instituto Dom Luiz
Head Researchers: Manuel Francisco Colaço Pereira (University of Evora)
Start date: 2013 End date: 2015
Proyecto 2281 – Cartografía Geológica y revisión de la geodinámica del Dominio Esquistoso de Galicia-Tras-os-Montes dentro del Programa de Geología Digital
Institution: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME)
Head Researchers: Francisco Javier Rubio Pascual (IGME)
Start date: 2013 End date: 2016
IGCP Project 597 -Amalgamation and breakup Pangaea: The Type Example of the Supercontinent Cycle)
Institution: UNESCO
Head Researchers: J. Brendan Murphy (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada); J. Duncan Keppie (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico); C. Quesada (IGME, Spain); W.J Collins (University of Newcastle, Australia).
Start date: 2011 End date: 2015
Aplicación de resultados estratigráficos y geoquímicos al estudio del registro sedimentario y evolución de la cuenca del Neoproterozoico Superior-Paleozoico Inferior en la Zona Centroibérica – CGL2010-18905
Institution: Universidad de Salamanca
Head Researcher: J. M. Ugidos (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
Start date: 2011/01/03 End date: 2014/01/03
Base de dados SIG sobre a Sismotectónica de Portugal Continental – SISMOTECTO – POCI/CTE-GIN/58250/2004
Institution: Instituto Dom Luiz
Head Researcher: J.M. Cabral (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Start date: 2005 End date: 2008
Património Biológico, Geologia e Geomorfologia: Óbidos -Rede de Investigação, Inovação e Conhecimento
Institution: Universidade de Lisboa/Museu de História Natural de Lisboa (Natural History Museum).
Head Researchers: Maria Amélia Loução (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Ana Cristina Costa Neves dos Santos Azerêdo (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Start date: 2005 End date: 2006
Books & Chapters (up to 10):
Azor, A., Dias da Silva, Í. (chapter coord.), 2019. 10. Deformation and Structure, In: Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 307-348. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_10
Dias da Silva, Í., Gomez Barreiro, J., González Clavijo, E., 2019. 10.2 Northern Iberia, In: Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 308-316. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_10
Dias da Silva, Í., González Clavijo, E., Díez Montes, A., Gomez Barreiro, J., 2019. 2.6.1 The Rift Sequence in the Upper Parautochthon, In: Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59-61. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_2
Dias da Silva, Í., Chichorro, M., Gómez Barreiro, J., López-Carmona, A., 2019. 2.6.2 The Lower Allochthon: The Stretched Continental Margin of Northern Gondwana, In: Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61-64. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_2
Dias da Silva, Í., González Clavijo, E., Díez Montes, A., Gómez Barreiro, J., 2019 3.6.1 The Drift Stage in the Upper Parautochthon of the Galicia Trás-Os-Montes Zone, In: Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 91-93. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_3
González Clavijo, E., Dias da Silva, Í., 2019. 3 11.2.1 Foreland Basin at the Galicia Trás-os-Montes—Central Iberian Zones Limit: Culm-Type and Flyschoid Sequences Enclosing Olistostromes, In: Quesada, C., Oliveira, J.T. (eds.), The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 350-355. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_11
Martínez Catalán, J.R., Gómez Barreiro, J., Dias da Silva, Í., Chichorro, M., López-Carmona, A., Castiñeiras, P., Abati, J., Andonaegui, P., Fernández-Suárez, J., González Cuadra, P., Benítez-Pérez, J.M., 2019. 4. Variscan Suture Zone and Suspect Terranes in the NW Iberian Massif: Allochthonous Complexes of the Galicia-Trás os Montes Zone (NW Iberia). In: Quesada C, Oliveira JT (eds) The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 99-130. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_4
Ribeiro, M.L., Reche, J., López-Carmona, A., Aguilar, C., Bento dos Santos, T., Chichorro, M., Dias da Silva, Í., Díez-Montes, A., González-Clavijo, E., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Leal, N., Liesa, M., Martínez, F.J., Mateus, A., Mendes, M.H., Moita, P., Pedro, J., Quesada, C., Santos, J.F., Solá, A.R., Valverde-Vaquero, P., 2019. 12. Variscan Metamorphism. In: Quesada C, Oliveira JT (eds) The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 2: The Variscan Cycle. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 431-495. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10519-8_12
Dias da Silva, Í. 2014. Geología de las Zonas Centro Ibérica y Galicia – Trás-os-Montes en la parte oriental del Complejo de Morais, Portugal/España, Instituto Universitario de Geología “Isidro Parga Pondal” – Área de Xeoloxía e Minería do Seminario de Estudos Galegos, Coruña, 424pp. ISBN: 978-84-9749-583-7.
Conferences (last 15 presentations):
Unraveling terrane sources of synorogenic basins: provenance analysis of Late Devonian-Carboniferous siliciclastic rocks from SW Iberia (Variscan belt)
Conference: EGU General Assembly 2019
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Vienna, Austria
Date: 11/04/2019
The NW Iberia Allochthonous domain envisaged as a Variscan lateral extrusion fan-like structure: local and orogenic-scale implications
Conference: EGU General Assembly 2018
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Vienna, Austria
Date: 13/04/2018
Syn-orogenic units in the NW Iberian Variscan Massif: a regional approach based on new field work and detrital zircon evidences
Conference: EGU General Assembly 2018
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Vienna, Austria
Date: 13/04/2018
Furongian-Late Ordovician volcanism in the Upper Parautochthon of the Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone (NE Portugal)
Conference: Ordovician Geodynamics: The Sardic Phase in the Pyrenees, Mouthoumet and Montagne Noire massifs
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Figueres, Spain
Date: 04/09/2017
An overview on the Ordovician volcanic rocks and unconformities in the Central Iberian and Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zones of the Iberian Variscan Massif
Conference: Ordovician Geodynamics: The Sardic Phase in the Pyrenees, Mouthoumet and Montagne Noire massifs
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Figueres, Spain
Date: 04/09/2017
Variscan extension and shortening in the Ossa-Morena Zone (Iberia): Structure of the northern hanging-wall block of the Évora Massif
Conference: IX Congreso Geológico de España
Conference type: Nacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Huelva, Spain
Date: 14/10/2016
Superposition relations of microfabrics in the northern hanging-wall block of the Évora Massif (Ossa-Morena Zone)
Conference: IX Congreso Geológico de España
Conference type: Nacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Huelva, Spain
Date: 12/10/2016
Early Carboniferous synorogenic basins evolution of the Ossa-Morena and Galicia-Trás-os-Montes zones (Iberia): a tectonic model
Conference: IX Congreso Geológico de España
Conference type: Nacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Huelva, Spain
Date: 13/09/2016
Geochemical Evolution of Volcanism during the Upper Cambrian-Ordovician Extension of the North Gondwana Margin
Conference: X Congresso Ibérico de Geoquímica/XVIII Semana de Geoquímica
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Poster
City, country: Alfrangide, Portugal
Date: 20/10/2015
A Lateral escape tectonics in the Variscan Orogen: A new approach for the emplacement of the Allochthonous terranes and for the birth of the Central Iberian Orocline
Conference: Variscan 15 – The Variscan belt: Correlations and plate dynamics
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Rennes, France
Date: 09/06/2015
Absolute age constraints on the Upper Parautochthon sedimentary sequence of the Morais allochthonous complex (Iberian Variscan belt, NE Portugal) based on new magmatic zircon U-Pb data
Conference: Gondwana 15 – North meets South
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Madrid, Spain
Date: from 14 to 18/07/2014
Large Upper Cambrian rhyolite olistoliths locked in the Early Carboniferous Variscan syn-orogenic melange of the parautochthonous realm of the NW Iberian Massif.
Conference: Gondwana 15 – North meets South
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Madrid, Spain
Date: from 14 to 18/07/2014
The intriguing geometry of the Central Iberian Arc.
Conference: Gondwana 15 – North meets South
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Oral, co-author
City, country: Madrid, Spain
Date: from 14 to 18/07/2014
New Structural and Paleomagnetic constraints on the Western Variscan oroclines.
Conferência: Gondwana 15 – North meets South
Conference: Gondwana 15 – North meets South
Conference type: Internacional
Comunication type: Poster, co-author
City, country: Madrid, Spain
Date: from 14 to 18/07/2014
Cartografía geológica no bordo Oriental do Complexo Alóctone de Morais
Conference: 9ª Conferência Anual do Grupo de Geologia Estrutural e Tectónica da Sociedade Geológica de Portugal (GGET-SGP)
Conference type: Nacional
Comunication type: Oral
City, country: Estremoz, Portugal
Date: 13 and 14/12/2013
Awards:
Prémios Científicos Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2019
Menção Honrosa em Ciências da Terra e Geofísica
Conferring institution: Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Conferral date: 06/08/2020
SYNTHESIS – ACCESS (DE-TAF-5798)
Conferring institution: European Commission
Conferral date: 30/05/2016
Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado (Extraordinary Ph.D. Award)
Conferring institution: Universidad de Salamanca
Conferral date: 05/12/2013
Premio Extraordinario de Grado de Salamanca (Extraordinary Masters Award)
Conferring institution: Universidad de Salamanca
Conferral date: 24/03/2011
Premio à melhor apresentação oral efetuada por estudantes (1, 2º e 3º ciclos) no tema Sedimentologia e Estratigrafia do VIII Congresso Nacional de Geologia (Award for the best oral conference given by a student (1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle) in Sedimentology, Stratigraphy of the VIII Portuguese Nacional Geological Congress)
Conferring institution: Sociedade Geológica de Portugal
Conferral date: 12/07/2010
