Ícaro F. Dias da Silva

Profile

Research Group: RG3 – Solid Earth dynamics
Position at IDL: Researcher
Job: Junior 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 exquisite natural laboratory that is the Iberian Massif (Portugal and Spain). My present research focuses on the Geodynamic evolution and modeling of the Lower Palaeozoic seas and of the construction and collapse of the Variscan Orogen, to understand how the European crust was formed.

Keywords:

Structural Geology; Tectonics; Synorogenic marine basins; Variscan Orogeny; Geodynamic modeling

Scientific Informations

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0185-9410

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55508256500

Researcher ID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-2643-2012

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Icaro_Dias_da_Silva

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=avCjkxIAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

• Construction and collapse of Orogens: Past and present

• Paleogeographic and tectonic modeling of synorogenic basins

• Formation and distribution of mass transport deposits in ancient orogens

• Reconstruction of deformation and metamorphic events associated with continental collision in the core of Pangea amalgamation (Variscan belt)

• Role of lithospheric thinning and relationship with major geodynamic events during continental collision

• Geodynamics of the Lower Paleozoic passive margin of Gondwana

Top 10 Publications: 

Dias da Silva, Í., Pereira, M.F., González Clavijo, E. and Silva, J.B., 2024. Mississippian olistostromes of Iberia revisited: tectonic drivers of synorogenic carbonate platform/reef destruction. Journal of the Geological Society, 181(2), jgs2023-187. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-187

Dias da Silva, Í., Pereira, M.F., Gama, C., Steel Hart, L., Barrios Sánchez, S., Santos Alves, K., Gómez Barreiro, J., Tassinari, C. and Sato, K., 2023. The influence of synorogenic extension on the crustal architecture of North Gondwana during the assembly of Pangaea (Ossa-Morena Zone, SW Iberia). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 542(1), SP542-2023-9. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP542-2023-9

Pereira, M.F., Dias da Silva, Í., Rodríguez, C., Corfu, F. and Castro, A., 2023. Visean high-K mafic-intermediate plutonic rocks of the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberia): implications for regional extensional tectonics. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 531(1), SP531-2022-118. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP531-2022-118

Pereira, M.F., Gama, C., Dias da Silva, I., Fuenlabrada, J.M. and El Houicha, M., 2023. Cadomian arc recycling along the northern Gondwana margin: Source-inherited composition of Miaolingian rift-related rhyolitic rocks (Ossa-Morena Zone, SW Iberia). Journal of African Earth Sciences, 201, 104887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2023.104887

González Clavijo, E., Dias da Silva, Í., Martínez Catalán, J.R., Gómez Barreiro, J., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Díez Montes, A., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A. and Linnemann, U., 2021. A tectonic carpet of Variscan flysch at the base of a rootless accretionary prism in northwestern Iberia: U–Pb zircon age constrains from sediments and volcanic olistoliths. Solid Earth, 12(4), 835-867. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-835-2021

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

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

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.

Projects (10 most relevant): 

MOSTMEG: Predictive models for strategic metal rich, granite-related ore systems based on mineral and geochemical fingerprints and footprints (ERA-MIN/0002/2019)

Institution: FCUL, Faculdade de Ciências da U. Porto, U. Évora, LNEG, U. Coimbra, Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo, CNRS-GeoRessources

Head Researchers: António Mateus (FCUL)

Start date: 2021                                                         End date: 2024

Património Geológico do Concelho de Montemor-o-Novo - Protocolo de Colaboração

Institution: FCiencias.ID, FCUL, UÉvora, Município de Montemor-o-Novo       

Head Researchers: Ícaro Dias da Silva (IDL-FCUL), Manuel Francisco Pereira (Universidade de Évora), Manuela Pereira (Município de Montemor-o-Novo)

Start date: 2023                                                         End date: 2026

Depositos Minerales estratégicos tardivariscos: Impronta estructural y Geofísica (PID2020-117332GB-C21)

Institution: Universidad de Salamanca

Head Researchers: Juan Gómez Barreiro (Universidad de Salamanca)

Start date: 2021                                                         End date: 2024

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 (Universidade de Évora)

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: José María Ugidos (Universidad de Salamanca)

Start date: 2011                                                         End date: 2014

Base de dados SIG sobre a Sismotectónica de Portugal Continental – SISMOTECTO – POCI/CTE-GIN/58250/2004

Institution: Instituto Dom Luiz

Head Researcher: João Cabral (FCUL)

Start date: 2005                                                         End date: 2008

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): 

Variscan olistostromes and the geological history they tell… unraveling the tectonic evolution of the Pangea supercontinent

Conference: EGU General Assembly 2024

Conference type: Internacional

Comunication type: Poster

City, country: Vienna, Austria

Date: 15/04/2024

Mississippian synorogenic sedimentation in the Variscan belt: Why are NW and SW Iberia flysch basins so different and yet so similar?

Conference: EGU General Assembly 2023

Conference type: Internacional

Comunication type: Oral

City, country: Vienna, Austria

Date: 27/04/2023

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 

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