Geology and structure of the Serre Massif upper crust

A look in to the late-Variscan strike–slip kinematics of the Southern European Variscan chain

Bibliographic Data

ID16840265
AuthorsGuy Ortolano (0000-0001-5802-6922, University of Catania), Mario Pagano (0000-0003-1495-8108, University of Catania, corresponding author), Roberto Visalli (0000-0002-6102-4204, University of Catania), Gerolamo Angì (University of Catania), Alessia D’agostino (0000-0002-4461-7745, University of Catania), Francesco Muto (0000-0002-3456-7174, University of Calabria), Vincenzo Tripodi (0000-0001-6611-6477, University of Calabria), Salvatore Critelli (0000-0001-7325-0228, University of Calabria), Rosolino Cirrincione (0000-0002-4595-150X, University of Catania)
Year2022
Volume18
Issue2
Pages314-330
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Maps (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-5647 • E-ISSN: 1744-5647
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17445647.2022.2057876
OpenAlexW4224942088
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited66

A new geological-structural map of the southern Serre Massif (SM), in the south-central part of the Calabrian-Peloritani-Orogen (CPO), is provided. CPO is a ribbon-like microplates puzzle, originally belonging to the southern European Variscan Belt and, later involved into the Alpine geodynamics of the central Mediterranean Area. The SM represents one of the key European Variscan basement relicts, because of its exhumation mechanisms as well as for the absence of any Alpine metamorphic overprint. This map has the aim to better delineate the sequence of the Variscan blasto-deformational relationships consisting in a prograde multistage history, followed by an extensional/transpressional multistage retrograde evolution, which triggered the intrusion of the former plutonic products. The mylonitic fabric resulted finally replaced by the effects of the late- to post-kinematic plutonic intrusions coeval with a former late-Variscan exhumation stage, followed, during Mesozoic, by carbonate platform sedimentation, before to be completed exhumed during the Oligocene-Miocene Alpine stages

Archaeology · Basement · Crust · Geochemistry · Massif · Metamorphic rock · Seismology · Shear zone · Structural geology · Tectonics · Transpression · earthquake and tectonic studies · Geological and Geochemical Analysis · Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide · Geology · Paleontology

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