The Montalban Anticline (Eastern Iberian Chain) represents a matchless framework of Autunian
hypovolcanic calc-alkaline (dykes and sills) intrusions within the Iberian Chain. In the Maicas sector (NO of
Montalban Anticline) the dykes contain several types of metamorphic and granitic xenolites from a deep
origin. The xenolites can be considered as passive markers and thus the dykes of this sector constitute very
interesting bodies in order to determine both the flow regime characteristics and the related stress regime.
The application of the anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility technique (AMS) to one dyke of the Maicas
sector, where a high content in metamorphic and granitic xenolites occur, reveals a geometrical pattern of
both the magnetic foliation and lineation within the dyke which is consistent with a turbulent flow regime
linked to the xenolites emplacement. The obliquity between the mean magnetic lineation and the dyke
wall, strongly suggest an emplacement mode of the magma linked to an oblique extension regime which
is consistent with the structural Autunian framework in the Iberian Chain