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dc.contributor.authorReddy, Steven
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:17:48Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:17:48Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:32:59Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationIannace, A. and Vitale, S. and D'Errico, M. and Mazzoli, S. and Di Staso, A. and Macaione, E. and Messina, A. and Reddy, S. M. and Somma, R. and Zamparelli, V. and Zattin, M. and Bonardi, G.. 2007. The carbonate tectonic units of northern Calabria (Italy): a record of Apulian palaeomargin evolution and Miocene convergence, continental crust subduction, and exhumation of HP-LT rocks.. Journal of the Geological Society 164 (6): 1165-1186.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20169
dc.description.abstract

In northern Calabria (Italy), the metasedimentary succession of the Lungro?Verbicaro tectonic unit preserves mineral assemblages suggesting underthrusting to depths in excess of 40 km. Internal deformation of these rocks occurred continuously during the following decompression. Index mineral composition associated with progressively younger tectonic fabrics indicates that a substantial part of the structural evolution took place within the blueschist-facies P-T field. Despite their tectonic and metamorphic history, the rocks of the Lungro-Verbicaro Unit preserve significant sedimentary and palaeontological features allowing correlations with successions included in adjacent thrust sheets and the reconstruction of the Mesozoic continental margin architecture. The subduction-exhumation cycle recorded by the Lungro-Verbicaro Unit is entirely of Miocene age. This portion of the Apulia continental palaeomargin was involved in convergence-related deformation not earlier than the Aquitanian. The integration of our results with available constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Apennine-Calabrian Arc system suggests that subduction and most of the subsequent exhumation of the Lungro?Verbicaro Unit occurred, up to Langhian time, at maximum vertical rates in excess of 15 mm a-1. The exhumation process was then completed, at much slower rates (<2 mm a -1) in Late Miocene time, as indicated by both apatite fission-track data and stratigraphic information.

dc.publisherGeological Society of London
dc.relation.urihttp://www.lyellcollection.org/
dc.subjectcarbonate
dc.subjecttectonic
dc.subjectexhumation
dc.subjectCalabria
dc.subjectsubduction
dc.subjectApulia
dc.titleThe carbonate tectonic units of northern Calabria (Italy): a record of Apulian palaeomargin evolution and Miocene convergence, continental crust subduction, and exhumation of HP-LT rocks.
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume164
dcterms.source.number6
dcterms.source.startPage1165
dcterms.source.endPage1186
dcterms.source.titleJournal of the Geological Society
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curtin.identifierEPR-2483
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyDepartment of Applied Geology
curtin.facultyDivision of Resources and Environment


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