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Pleuger, J., Froitzheim, N. and Jansen, E. (2005). Folded continental and oceanic nappes on the southern side of Monte Rosa (western Alps, Italy): Anatomy of a double collision suture. Tectonics 24: doi: 10.1029/2004TC001737. issn: 0278-7407. |
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Previous work suggested a double collision suture, including ophiolites from two oceanic basins (Valais and Piemont-Liguria), on the southern side of Monte Rosa (Penninic Alps, northern Italy). This area was studied using field mapping, microstructural analysis, and neutron texture goniometry. After its formation and eclogite-facies metamorphism of continental and oceanic units, the suture was deformed by four successive folding and shearing events under greenschist-facies conditions, all of them taking place between 40 and 28 Ma. After fold retrodeformation, the following tectonostratigraphy results, from base to top: Monte Rosa gneiss (European margin), Balma serpentinite/eclogite unit (Cretaceous crust of Valais ocean), Stolemberg gneiss (Iberia-Brian¿onnais continent), Zermatt-Saas and Tsat¿ ophiolites (Jurassic crust of Piemont-Ligurian ocean), Sesia nappe (continental fragment off the Adria margin). The preservation of this lithological sequence suggests that deep-seated deformation during multiple continent collision produces heterogeneous strain and extreme thinning of nappes but their original stacking order can still be reconstructed using kinematic analysis and overprinting criteria. This is due to the ductile nature of the collisional deformation which retains the continuity of tectonic contacts. |
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Keywords
Tectonophysics, Continental contractional orogenic belts and inversion tectonics, Structural Geology, Folds and folding, Structural Geology, Microstructures, Tectonophysics, Plate boundary, general, Geographic Location, Europe, Alps, Monte Rosa nappe, continent collision |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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