Triassic mid-ocean ridge basalts from the Argolis Peninsula (Greece): New constraints for the early oceanization phases of the Neo-Tethyan Pindos basin

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 218, Issue , 2004, Pages 109-127

  Saccani, Emilio ^a   Padoa, Elisa ^b   Photiades, Adonis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Inst of Geology/Mineral Exploration   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PELOPONNESE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 2942544110     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.218.01.07     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. ALLÈGRE, C.J. & MINSTER, J.F. 1978. Quantitative models of trace element behavior in magmatic processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 38, 1-25.
2. AUBOUIN, J., BONNEAU, M. & CÉLET, P. ET AL. 1970. Contribution à la géologie des Hellénides: le Gavrovo, le Pinde et la zone ophiolitique subpélagonienne. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord, 90, 277-306.
3. BAUMGARTNER, P.O. 1980. Late Jurassic Hagiastridae and Patulibrachiidae (Radiolaria) from Argolis Peninsula (Peloponnesus Greece). Micropaleontology, 23, 274-322.
4. BAUMGARTNER, P.O. 1985. Jurassic sedimentary evolution and nappe emplacement in the Argolis Peninsula (Peloponnesus, Greece). Mémoires de la Société Helvetique des Sciences Naturelles, 99, 1-111.
5. BAUMGARTNER, P.O. 1987. Age and genesis of Tethyan Jurassic Radiolarites. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 80, 831-879.
6. BÉBIEN, J., BLANCHET, R., CADET, J.-P., CHARVET, J., CHOROWICZ, J., LAPIERRE, H. & RAMPNOUX, J.-P. 1978. Le volcanisme Triasique des Dinarides en Yougoslavie: sa place dans l'évolution geotectonique Peri-Mediterraneenne. Tectonophysics, 47, 159-176.
7. BÉBIEN, J., DIMO-LAHITTE, A., VERGÉLY, P., INSERGUEIX-FILIPPI, D. & DUPEYRAT, L. 2000. Albanian ophiolites. I--magmatic and metamorphic processes associated with the initiation of a subduction. Ofioliti, 25, 47-53.
8. BECCALUVA, L., OHNENSTETTER, D. & OHNENSTETTER, M. 1979. Geochemical discrimination between ocean-floor and island-arc tholeiites-application to some ophiolites. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 16, 1874.
9. BECK, C.M. 1980. Essai d'interpretation structurale et paléogéographique des 'roches vertes du Pinde d'Etoilie' (Grèce continental meridionale). Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord, 99, 355-365.
10. BORTOLOTTI, V., CHIARI, M., MARCUCCI, M., PHOTIADES, A. & PRINCIPI, G. 2001. Triassic radiolarian assemblages from the cherts associated with pillow lavas in the Argolis Peninsula. Ofioliti, 26, 75.
11. BORTOLOTTI, V., CARRAS, N., CHIARI, M., FAZZUOLI, M., MARCUCCI, M., PHOTIADES, A. & PRINCIPI, G. 2002. New geological observations and biostratigraphic data on the Argolis Peninsula: palaeogeographic and geodynamic implications. Ofioliti, 27, 43.
12. CAPEDRI, S., GRANDI, R., PHOTIADES, A. & TOSCANI, L. 1996. 'Boninitic' clasts from the Mesozoic olistostromes and turbidites of Angelokastron (Argolis, Greece). Geological Journal, 31, 301-322.
13. CLIFT, P.D. & ROBERTSON, A.H.F. 1989. Evidence of a late Mesozoic ocean basin and subduction-accretion in the southern Greek Neo-Tethys. Geology, 17, 559-563.
14. CLIFT, P.D. & ROBERTSON, A.H.F. 1990. Deep-water basins within the Mesozoic carbonate platform of Argolis, Greece. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 147, 825-836.
15. DANELIAN, T. & ROBERTSON, A.H.F. 2001. Neotethyan evolution of eastern Greece (Pangodas Mélange, Evia Island) inferred from radiolarian biostratigraphy and the geochemistry of associated extrusive rocks. Geological Magazine, 138, 345-363.
16. DEGNAN, P.J. & ROBERTSON, A.H.F. 1998. Mesozoic-early Tertiary passive margin evolution of the Pindos ocean (NW Peloponnese, Greece). Sedimentary Geology, 117, 33-70.
17. DOSTAL, J., TOSCANI, L., PHOTIADES, A. & CAPEDRI, S. 1991. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Tethyan ophiolites from northern Argolis (Peloponnesus, Greece). European Journal of Mineralogy, 3, 105-121.
18. DOUTSOS, T., PE-PIPER, G., BORONKAY, K. & KOUKOUVELAS, I. 1993. Kinematics of the central Hellenides. Tectonics, 12(4), 936-953.
19. EISSEN, J.-P., JUTEAU, T., JORON, J.-L., DUPRE, B., HUMLER, E. & AL'MUKHAMEDOV, A. 1989. Petrology and geochemistry of basalts from the Red Sea axial rift at 18° North. Journal of Petrology, 30, 791-839.
20. FERRIÈRE, J. 1982. Paleogéographie et tectonique superposés dans les Hellenides internes: les massifs de l'Othrys et du Pelion (Grèce continentale). Societé de la Géologie du Nord, Lille, Publication, 8, 1-941.
21. FRANZINI, M., LEONI, L. & SAITTA, M. 1972. A simple method to valutate the matrix effect in X-ray fluorescence analysis. X-Ray Spectrometry, 1, 151-154.
22. HAASE, K.M. 2002. Geochemical constraits on magma sources and mixing processes in Easter Microplate MORB (SE Pacific): a case study of plume-ridge interaction. Chemical Geology, 182, 335-355.
23. HALAMIC, J., SLOVENEC, D. & KOLAR-JURKOVSEK, T. 1998. Triassic pelagic limestones in pillow lavas in the Oresje quarry near Gornja Bistra, Medvednica Mt. (Northwest Croatia). Geologica Croatica, 51, 33-45.
24. JONES, G. & ROBERTSON, A.H.F. 1991. Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Mesozoic Pindos ophiolite and related units, northwestern Greece, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 148, 267-288.
25. MARCUCCI, M. & PRELA, M. 1996. The Lumi i zi (Puke) section of the Kalur Cherts: radiolarian assemblages and comparison with other sections in northern Albania. Ofioliti, 21, 71-76.
26. MAURY, R.C., BOUGAULT, H., COUTELLE, A., GUENNOC, P., JORON, J.-L. & PAUTOT, G. 1985. Présence de ferrobasalte tholeiitique dans la fosse Jean Charcot (26°15'N, 35°22'E): signification dans le contexte géodynamique de la Mer Rouge. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 300, 811-816.
27. MESCHEDE, M. 1986. A method of discriminating between different types of mid-ocean ridge basalts and continental tholeiites with the Nb-Zr-Y diagram. Chemical Geology, 56, 207-218.
28. PEARCE, J.A. 1983. Role of the sub-continenetal lithosphere in magma genesis at active continental margin. In: HAWKESWORTH, C.J. & NORRY, M.J. (eds) Continental Basalts and Mantle Xenoliths. Shiva, Nantwich, 230-249.
29. PEARCE, J.A. & NORRY, M.J. 1979. Petrogenetic implications of Ti, Zr, Y, and Nb variations in volcanic rocks. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 69, 33-47.
30. PE-PIPER, G. 1982. Geochemistry, tectonic setting and metamorphism of the mid-Triassic volcanic rocks of Greece. Tectonophysics, 85, 253-272.
31. PE-PIPER, G. 1983. The Triassic volcanic rocks of Tyros, Zarouhla, Kalamac, and Epidavros, Peloponnese, Greece. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 63, 249-266.
32. PE-PIPER, G. 1998. The nature of Triassic extension-related magmatism in Greece: evidence from Nd and Pb isotope geochemistry. Geological Magazine, 135(3), 331-348.
33. PE-PIPER, G. & HATZIPANAGIOTOU, K. 1993. Ophiolitic rocks of the Kerassies-Milia belt, continental Greece. Ofioliti, 18, 157-169.
34. PE-PIPER, G. & KOTOPOULI, C.N. 1991. Geochemical characteristics of the Triassic igneous rocks of the Island of Samos, Greece. Neues Jahrbruch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 162, 135-150.
35. PE-PIPER, G. & MAVRONICHI, M. 1990. Petrology, geochemistry and regional significance of the Triassic volcanic rocks of the Western Parnassos isopic zone of Greece. Ofioliti, 15(2), 269-285.
36. PHOTIADES, A. 1986. Contribution à l'étude géologique et métallogénique des unités ophiolitiques de l'Argolide septentrionale (Grèce). PhD thesis, Université de Besançon.
37. PHOTIADES, A. 1989. The diversity of the Jurassic volcanism in the inner parts of the Hellenides: the northern Argolis ophiolitic unit (Peloponnesus, Greece). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 23, 515-530.
38. PHOTIADES, A. & ECONOMOU, G. 1991. Alteration hydrothermale sous-marine des basalts et des dolerites (facies zeolitique) de l'Unité moyenne 'volcanique' de l'Argolide Septentrionale (Peloponnese, Grèce. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 25, 301-319.
39. PHOTIADES, A. & SKOURTSIS-CORONEOU, V. 1994. Stratigraphic and paleogeographic evolution of the Northern Argolis (Greece) during the Cretaceous-Paleogene. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 30, 135-146.
40. ROBERTSON, A.H.F. 1994. Role of the tectonic facies concept in orogenic analysis and its application to Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Earth-Science Reviews, 37, 139-213.
41. ROBERTSON, A.H.F. & KARAMATA, S. 1994. The role of subduction accretion processes in the tectonic evolution of the Mesozoic Thetys in Serbia. Tectonophysics, 234(1-2), 73-94.
42. ROBERTSON, A.H.F. & SHALLO, M. 2000. Mesozoic-Tertiary evolution of Albania in its regional Eastern Mediterranean context. Tectonophysics, 316, 197-254.
43. ROBERTSON, A.H.F., VARNAVAS, S. & PANAGOS, A. 1987. Ocean ridge origin and tectonic setting of Mesozoic sulphide and oxide deposits of the Argolis Peninsula of the Peloponnesus, Greece. Sedimentary Geology, 53, 1-32.
44. ROBERTSON, A.H.F., CLIFT, P.D., DEGNAN, P.J. & JONES, G. 1991. Palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean Neotethys. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 87, 289-343.
45. ROBERTSON, A.H.F., DIXON, J.E. & BROWN, S. ET AL. 1996. Alternative tectonic models for the Late Paleozoic-Early Tertiary development of Tethys in the Earstern Mediterranean region. In: MORRIS, A. & TARLING, D.H. (eds) Paleomagnetism and Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region. Geological Society, London, Special Pubblications, 105, 239-263.
46. SAUNDERS, A.D., NORRY, M.J. & TARNEY, J. 1988. Origin of MORB and chemically-depleted mantle reservoirs: trace element constraints. Journal of Petrology, Special Issue, Oceanic and Continental Lithosphere: Similarities and Differences, 414-445.
47. SHERVAIS, J.W. 1982. Ti-V plots and the petrogenesis of modern ophiolitic lavas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 59, 101-118.
48. SPRAY, J.G., BÉBIEN, J., REX, D.C. & RODDICK, J.C. 1984. Age constraints on the igneous and metamorphic evolution of the Hellenic-Dinaric ophiolites. In: DIXON, J.E. & ROBERTSON, A.H.F. (eds) The Geological Evolution of Eastern Mediterranean. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 17, 619-627.
49. SUN, S.-S. & MCDONOUGH, W.F. 1989. Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. In: SAUNDERS, A.D. & NORRY, M.J. (eds) Magmatism in the Ocean Basins. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 42, 313-345.
50. TANKUT, A., DILEK, Y. & ÖNEN, P. 1998. Petrology and geochemistry of the Neo-Tethyan volcanism as revealed in the Ankara melange, Turkey. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 85, 265-284.