Petrogenesis of basalts and gabbros from an ancient continent-ocean transition (External Liguride ophiolites, Northern Italy)

Lithos

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 453-479

  Montanini, Alessandra ^a   Tribuzio, Riccardo ^b,c   Vernia, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

MORB; Northern Apennine; Ocean continent transition; Ophiolites

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GABBRO; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OPHIOLITE; PERIDOTITE; PETROGENESIS; PYROXENITE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SHEAR ZONE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 39849089155     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

References (114)

1. Abbate E., Bortolotti V., Principi G. Apennine ophiolites: a peculiar oceanic crust. Tethyan ophiolites, 1, Western area, Ofioliti, Special Issue 1980, 59-96. G. Rocci (Ed.).
2. Albaréde F. Introduction to geochemical modeling 1995, Cambridge University Press, New York, 543 pp.
3. Allegre C.J., Turcotte D.L. Implications of a two-component marble-cake mantle. Nature 1986, 323:123-127.
4. Anders E., Grevesse N. Abundances of the elements: meteoric and solar. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1989, 53:197-214.
5. Barrett J.J., Spooner E.F.C. Ophiolitic breccias associated with allochthonous oceanic crustal rocks in the East Ligurian Apennines, Italy - a comparison with observations from rifted oceanic ridges. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1977, 35:79-91.
6. Beard J.S., Fullagar P.D., Krisha Sinha A. Gabbroic pegmatite intrusions, Iberia Abyssal Plain, ODP Leg 173, Site 1070: magmatism during a transition from non-volcanic rifting to sea-floor spreading. Journal of Petrology 2002, 43:885-905.
7. Beattie P. Systematics and energetics of trace-element partitioning between olivine and silicate melts: implications for the nature of mineral/melt partitioning. Chemical Geology 1994, 117:57-71.
8. Bedard J.H. A procedure for calculating the equilibrium distribution of trace elements among the minerals of cumulate rocks, and the concentration of trace elements in the coexisting liquids. Chemical Geology 1994, 118:143-153.
9. 39Ar dating of an Alpine ophiolite (Gets nappe, French Alps). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 1997, 90:43-54.
10. Bill M., Nägler Th.F., Masson H. Major, minor, trace element, Sm-Nd and Sr isotope compositions of mafic rocks from the earliest oceanic crust of the Alpine Tethys. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 2000, 80:131-145.
11. Bill M., O'Dogherty L., Guex J., Baumgartner P.O., Masson H. Radiolarite ages in Alpine-Mediterranean ophiolites: constraints on the oceanic spreading and the Tethys-Atlantic connection. Geological Society of America Bulletin 2001, 113:129-143.
12. Bindeman I.N., Davis A.M., Drake M.J. Ion microprobe study of plagioclase-basalt partition experiments at natural concentration levels of trace elements. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1998, 62:1175-1193.
13. Blichert-Toft J., Albarede F., Kornprobst J. Lu-Hf isotope systematics of garnet pyroxenites from Beni Bousera, Morocco: implications for basalt origin. Science 1999, 283:1303-1306.
14. Blundy J.D., Robinson J.A.C., Wood B.J. Heavy REE are compatible in clinopyroxene on the spinel lherzolite solidus. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1998, 160:493-504.
15. Bodinier J.L., Guiraud M., Dupuy C., Dostal J. Geochemistry of basic dikes in the Lanzo massif (Western Alps): petrogenetic and geodynamic implications. Tectonophysics 1986, 128:77-95.
16. Bodinier J.L., Godard G. Orogenic, ophiolitic and abyssal peridotites. Treatise on Geochemistry 2003, Vol. 2:103-170. Elsevier, The Mantle and Core. Amsterdam. K. Turekian, H.D. Holland (Eds.).
17. Boillot G., Agrinier P., Beslier M.O., Cornen G., Froitzheim N., Gardien V., Girardeau J., Gil-Ibarguchi J., Kornprobst J., Moullade M., Schärer U., Vanney J.R. A lithospheric syn-rift shear zone at the ocean-continent transition: preliminary results of the Galinaute II cruise (Nautiles dives on the Galicia Bank, Spain). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 1995, 321:1171-1178.
18. Cannat M., Bideau D., Bougault H. Serpentinized peridotites and gabbros in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge axial valley at 15°37'N and 16°52'N. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1992, 109:87-106.
19. Carlswell R.W. Eclogite-facies Rocks 1990, Chapman and Hall, New York.
20. Charpentier S., Kornprobst J., Chazot G., Cornen G., Boillot G. Lithosphere/asthenosphere interaction during continental breakup: preliminary isotopic data on the passive Galicia Margin (North-Atlantic). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 1998, 326:757-762.
21. Chazot G., Charpentier S., Kornprobst J., Vannucci R., Luais B. Lithospheric mantle evolution during continental break-up: the West Iberia non-volcanic passive margin. Journal of Petrology 2005, 46:2527-2568.
22. Conti M., Marcucci M., Passerini P. Radiolarian cherts and ophiolites in the Northern Apennines and Corsica: age correlations and tectonic frame of siliceous deposition. Ofioliti 1985, 10:201-225.
23. Coogan L.A., MacLeod C.J., Dick H.J.B., Edwards S.J., Kvassnes A., Natland J.H., Robinson P.T., Thompson G., O'Hara M.J. Whole-rock geochemistry of gabbros from the Southwest Indian Ridge: constraints on geochemical fractionations between the upper and lower oceanic crust and magma chamber processes at (very) slow-spreading ridges. Chemical Geology 2001, 178:1-22.
24. Cornen G., Girardeau J., Monnier C. Basalts, underplated gabbros and pyroxenites record the rifting process of the West Iberian margin. Mineralogy and Petrology 1999, 67:111-142.
25. Cortesogno L., Galbiati B., Principi G. Note alla "Carta geologica delle ofioliti del Bracco" e ricostruzione della paleogeografia Giurassico-Cretacica. Ofioliti 1987, 12:261-342.
26. Cortesogno L., Gaggero L., Molli G. Ocean-floor tectono-metamorphic evolution in the Piedmont-Ligurian Jurassic basin. A review. Bolleetino della Società Geologica Italiana 1994, 48:151-163.
27. Desmurs L., Manatschal G., Bernoulli D. The Steinmann Trinity revisited: exhumation and magmatism along an ocean-continent transition: The Platta nappe, eastern Switzerland. Non-Volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea 2001, 187:235-266. Geological Society of London Special Publication. R.C.L. Wilson, R.B. Withmarsh, B. Taylor, N. Froitzheim (Eds.).
28. Desmurs L., Müntener O., Manatschal G. Onset of magmatic accretion within a magma-poor rifted margin: a case study from the Platta ocean-continent transition, eastern Switzerland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2002, 144:365-382.
29. Dick H.J.B., et al. A long in situ section of the ocean crust: results of ODP Leg 176 drilling at the Southwest Indian Ridge. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2000, 179:31-51.
30. Donnelly K.A., Goldstein S.L., Langmuir C.H., Spiegelman M. Origin of enriched ocean ridge basalts and implications for mantle dynamics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2004, 226:347-366.
31. Downes, H. in press. Origin and significance of spinel and garnet pyroxenites in the shallow lithospheric mantle: ultramafic massifs in orogenic belts in Western Europe and NW Africa. Lithos. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2007.05.006.
32. Durand-Delga M., Peybernès B., Rossi Ph. Arguments en faveur de la position, au Jurassique, des ophiolites de Balagne (Haute-Corse, France) au voisinage de la marge continentale européenne. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci.Series IIA- Earth and Planetary Science 1997, 325:973-981.
33. Ernst W.G., Liu J. Experimental phase-equilibrium study of Al- and Ti-contents of calcic amphibole in MORB-A semiquantitative thermobarometer. American Mineralogist 1998, 83:952-969.
34. Gaetani G.A. The influence of melt structure on trace element partitioning near the peridotite solidus. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2004, 147:511-527.
35. Hart S.R., Dunn T. Experimental cpx/melt partitioning of 24 trace elements. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1993, 113:1-8.
36. Hébert R., Serri G., Hekinian R. Mineral chemistry of ultramafic tectonites and ultramafic to gabbroic cumulates from the major oceanic basins and Northern Apennine ophiolites (Italy) - a comparison. Chemical Geology 1989, 77:183-207.
37. Hellebrand E., Snow J.E. Deep melting and sodic metasomatism underneath the highly oblique-spreading Lena Trough (Arctic Ocean). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2003, 216:283-299.
38. Hirschmann M.M., Stolper E.M. A possible role for garnet pyroxenite in the origin of the garnet signature in MORB. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1996, 124:185-208.
39. Holland T., Blundy J.D. Non-ideal interactions in calcic amphiboles and bearing on amphibole-plagioclase thermometry. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1994, 116:433-447.
40. Horn I., Foley S.F., Jackson S.E., Jenner G.A. Experimentally determined partitioning of high field strength- and selected transition elements between spinel and basaltic melt. Chemical Geology 1994, 117:193-218.
41. Humphris S.E., Thompson G. Hydrothermal alteration of oceanic basalts by seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1978, 42:107-125.
42. Ionov D.A., Bodinier J.L., Mukasa S.B., Zanetti A. Mechanisms and sources of mantle metasomatism; major and trace element compositions of peridotite xenoliths from Spitsbergen in the context of numerical modelling. Journal of Petrology 2002, 43:2219-2259.
43. Jacobsen S.B., Wasserburg G.J. Sm-Nd isotopic evolution of chondrites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1980, 50:139-155.
44. Johnson K.T.M. Experimental determination of partition coefficients for rare earth and high-field-strength elements between clinopyroxene, garnet, and basaltic melt at high pressures. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1998, 133:60-68.
45. Kempton P.D., Casey J.F. Petrology and geochemistry of crosscutting diabase dikes, Sites 920 and 92. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Project Scientific Results 1997, 153:363-379. J.A. Karson, M. Cannat, D.J. Miller, D. Elthon (Eds.).
46. Kempton P.D., Harmon R.S. Oxygen isotope evidence of large-scale hybridization of the lower crust during magmatic underplating. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1992, 54:3401-3426.
47. Kinzler R.J. Melting of mantle peridotite at pressures approaching the spinel to garnet transition: application to mid-ocean ridge basalt petrogenesis. Journal of Geophysical Research 1997, 102:853-874.
48. Klemme S., Blundy J.D., Wood B.J. Experimental constraints on major and trace element partitioning during partial melting of eclogite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2002, 66:3109-3123.
49. Kogiso T., Hirschmann M. Partial melting experiments of bimineralic eclogite and the role of recycled mafic oceanic crust in the genesis of ocean island basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006, Volume 249:188-199.
50. Kogiso T., Hirschmann M.M., Pertermann M. High-pressure partial melting of mafic lithologies in the mantle. Journal of Petrology 2004, 45:2407-2422.
51. Korenaga J., Kelemen P.B. Major element heterogeneity in the mantle source of the North Atlantic igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2000, 184:251-268.
52. Kornprobst J., Vidal Ph., Malod J. Les basaltes de la Marge de la Galice (NO de la Péninsule Ibérique): hétérogénéitè des spectres de terres rares à la transition continent/océan. Données géochimiques préliminaires. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 1988, 306:1359-1364.
53. Lagabrielle Y., Cannat M. Alpine Jurassic ophiolites resemble the modern Central Atlantic basament. Geology 1990, 18:319-322.
54. Lavier L., Manatschal G. A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins. Nature 2006, 440:324-328.
55. Leake B.E. Nomenclature of amphiboles report of the Subcommitee on amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Commission on new minerals and mineral names. European Journal of Mineralogy 1997, 9:623-651.
56. Lewis A.D., Smewing J.D. The Montgenevre ophiolite (Hautes Alpes, France): metamorphism and trace-element geochemistry of the volcanic sequence. Chemical Geology 1980, 28:291-306.
57. Marroni M., Molli G., Montanini A., Tribuzio R. The association of continental crust rocks with ophiolites in the Northern Apennines (Italy): implications for the continent-ocean transition in the Western Tethys. Tectonophysics 1998, 292:43-66.
58. Marroni M., Molli G., Montanini A., Ottria G., Pandolfi L., Tribuzio R. The External Ligurian units (Northern Apennine, Italy): from rifting to convergence of a fossil ocean-continent transition zone. Ofioliti 2002, 27:119-131.
59. McDade P., Blundy J.D., Wood B.J. Trace element partitioning on the Tinaquillo Lherzolite solidus at 1.5GPa. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 2003, 139:129-147.
60. Michael P.J., Langmuir C.H., Dick H.J.B., Snow J.E., Goldstein S.L., Graham D.W., Lehnert K., Kurras G., Jokat W., Mühe R., Edmonds H.N. Magmatic and amagmatic seafloor generation at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean. Nature 2003, 423:956-961.
61. Molli G. Pre-orogenic tectonic framework of the northern Apennine ophiolites. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 1996, 89:163-180.
62. Montanini A., Tribuzio R. Igneous to metamorphic evolution of mafic rocks from a fossil ocean-continent transition (External Liguride ophiolites, Italy). Geophysical Research Abstracts 2003, 5:EAE03-A-06549.
63. Montanini A., Tribuzio R., Anczkiewicz R. Exhumation history of a garnet pyroxenite-bearing mantle section from a continent-ocean transition (Northern Apennine ophiolites, Italy). Journal of Petrology 2006, 47:1943-1971.
64. Müntener O., Hermann J. The role of lower crust and continental upper mantle during formation of nonvolcanic passive margins: evidence from the Alps. Non-Volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea 2001, 187:267-288. Geological Society of London Special Publication. R.C.L. Wilson, R.B. Withmarsh, B. Taylor, N. Froitzheim (Eds.).
65. Müntener O., Piccardo G.B. Melt migration in ophiolites: the message from Alpine-Apennine peridotites and implications for embryonic ocean basins. Ophiolites in the Earth history 2003, 218:69-89. Geological Society of London Special Publication. Y. Dilek, P.T. Robinson (Eds.).
66. Müntener O., Pettke T., Desmurs L., Meier M., Schaltegger U. Refertilization of mantle peridotite in embryonic ocean basins: trace element and Nd-isotopic evidence and implications for crust-mantle relationships. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2004, 221:293-308.
67. Müntener O., Piccardo G.B., Polino R., Zanetti P. Revisiting the Lanzo peridotite (NW-Italy): "asthenospherization" of ancient mantle lithosphere. Ofioliti 2005, 30:111-124.
68. Natland J.H., Dick H.J.B. Stratigraphy and composition of gabbros drilled in Ocean Drilling Program Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge: a synthesis of geochemical data. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program 2002, 176. J.H. Natland, H.J.B. Dick, D.J. Miller, R.P. Von Herzen (Eds.).
69. Niu Y., Gilmore T., Mackie S., Greig A., Bach A. Mineral chemistry, whole-rock compositions, and petrogenesis of Leg 176 gabbros: data and discussion. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program 2002, Volume 176. J.H. Natland, H.J.B. Dick, D.J. Miller, R.P. Von Herzen (Eds.).
70. Niu Y., Bideau D., Herkinian R., Batiza R. Mantle compositional control on the extent of mantle melting, crust production, gravity anomaly, ridge morphology, and ridge segmentation:a case study at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 33-35°N. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2002, 186:383-399.
71. Otten M.T. The origin of brown hornblende in the Artfjället gabbro and dolerites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1983, 86:189-199.
72. Ottonello G., Joron J.L., Piccardo G.B. Rare Earth and 3D transition element geochemistry of peridotitic rocks: II. Ligurian peridotites and associated basalts. Journal of Petrology 1984, 25:373-393.
73. Ozawa K., Meyer P.S., Bloomer S.H. Mineralogy and textures of iron-titanium oxide gabbros and associated olivine gabbros from Hole 735B. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Project Scientific Results 1991, 118:41-73. R.P. Von Herzen, P.T. Robinson (Eds.).
74. Padoa E., Saccani E., Durand-Delga M. Structural and geochemical data on the Rio Magno Unit: evidence for a new 'Apenninic' ophiolitic unit in Alpine Corsica and its geodynamic implications. Terra Nova 2001, 13:135-142.
75. Pearson D.G., Nowell G.M. Re-Os and Lu-Hf isotope constraints on the origin and age of pyroxenites from the Beni Bousera Peridotite Massif: implications for mixed peridotite-pyroxenite mantle sources. Journal of Petrology 2004, 45:439-455.
76. Pearson D.G., Canil D., Shirey S.B. Mantle samples included in volcanic rocks: xenoliths and diamonds. Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 2: The Mantle and Core 2003, 171-276. Elsevier, Amsterdam. K. Turekian, H.D. Holland (Eds.).
77. Pertermann M., Hirschmann M.M. Anhydrous partial melting experiments on MORB-like eclogite: phase relations, phase compositions and mineral-melt partitioning of major elements at 2-3GPa. Journal of Petrology 2003, 44:2173-2201.
78. Piccardo G.B., Müntener O., Zanetti A., Pettke T. Ophiolitic peridotites of the Alpine-Apennine system: mantle processes and geodynamic relevance. International Geological Review 2004, 46:1119-1159.
79. Piccardo G.B., Müntener O., Zanetti A. Alpine-Apenine ophiolitic peridotites: new concepts on their composition and evolution. Ofioliti 2004, 26:193-200.
80. Piccardo G.B. The Jurassic Ligurian Tethys, a fossil ultraslow spreading ocean. Metasomatism in Oceanic and Continental Lithospheric Mantle 2007, 293:11-33. Geological Society, London, Special Publication. M. Coltorti, M. Gregoire (Eds.).
81. Pin C., Santos Zalduegui J.F. Sequential separation of LREE, Th and U by miniaturized extraction chromatography: application to isotopic analyses of silicate rocks. Analytica Chimica Acta 1997, 339:79-89.
82. Platzner I.T. Modern isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry 1997, John Willey and Sons, New York, 514 pp.
83. Pognante U., Roesli U., Toscani L. Petrology of ultramafic and mafic rocks from the Lanzo peridotite body (western Alps). Lithos 1985, 18:201-214.
84. Rampone E., Piccardo G.B. The ophiolite-oceanic lithosphere analogue: new insights from the Northern Apennines (Italy). Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and Ocean Drilling Program 2000, 21-34. Geological Society of America Special Publication. J. Dilek, E. Moores, D. Elthon, A. Nicolas (Eds.).
85. Rampone E., Hoffmann A.W., Piccardo G.B., Vannucci R., Bottazzi P., Ottolini L. Petrology, mineral and isotope geochemistry of the External Liguride peridotites (northern Apennine, Italy). Journal of Petrology 1995, 36:81-105.
86. Rampone E., Hofmann A.W., Raczek I. Isotopic contrasts within the Internal Liguride ophiolite (N. Italy): the lack of a genetic peridotite-crust link. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1998, 163:175-189.
87. Rubatto D., Gebauer D., Fanning M. Jurassic formation and Eocene subduction of the Zermatt-Saas-Fee ophiolites. Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Central and Western Alps. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1998, 132:269-287.
88. Rubatto D., Hermann J. Zircon formation during fluid circulation in eclogites (Monviso, Western Alps): implications for Zr and Hf budget in subduction zones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2003, 67:2173-2187.
89. Salters V.J.M., Dick H.J.B. Mineralogy of the mid-ocean-ridge basalt source from neodymium isotopic composition of abyssal peridotites. Nature 2002, 418:68-72.
90. Salters V.J.M., Longhi J. Trace element partitioning during the initial stages of melting beneath mid-ocean ridges. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1999, 166:15-30.
91. Salters V., Stracke A. Composition of the depleted mantle. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2004, 5(5):1525-2027. 10.1029/2003GC000597.
92. Salters V.J.M., Longhi J.E., Bizimis M. Near mantle solidus trace element partitioning at pressures up to 3.4 GPa, Geochemistry Geophysics. Geosystems 2002, 3(7). 10.1029/2001GC000148.
93. Schaltegger U., Desmurs L., Manatschal G., Müntener O., Meier M., Frank M., Bernoulli D. The transition from rifting to sea-floor spreading within a magma-poor rifted margin: field and isotopic constraints. Terra Nova 2002, 14:156-162.
94. Schärer U., Girardeau J., Cornen G., Boillot G. 138-121Ma asthenospheric magmatism prior to continental break-up in the North Atlantic and geodynamic implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2000, 181:555-572.
95. Schwandt C.S., McKay G.A. Rare earth element partition coefficients from enstatite/melt synthesis experiments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1998, 62:2845-2848.
96. Seifert K.E., Chang C.W., Brunotte D.A. Evidence from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 149 mafic igneous rocks for oceanic crust in the Iberia Abyssal Plain ocean-continent transition zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 1997, 102:7915-7928.
97. Sobolev A.V., Chung L., Danyushevsky L.V., Elliott T., Frey A., Garcia M.A., Gurenko A.A., Kamenetsky V.S., Kerr A.C., Krivolutskaya N.A., Matvienkov V.V., Nikogosian I.K., Rocholl A., Sigurdsson I.A., Sushchevskaya N.M., Teklay M. The amount of recycled crust in sources of mantle-derived melts. Nature 2007, 316:412-417.
98. Thy P. Igneous petrology of gabbros from Hole 1105A: oceanic magma chamber processes. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Project Scientific Results 2003, 179:1-76. J.F. Casey, D.J. Miller (Eds.).
99. Tiepolo M., Tribuzio R., Vannucci R. Mg- and Fe-gabbroids from Northern Apennine ophiolites: parental liquids and igneous differentiation processes. Ofioliti 1997, 22:57-69.
100. Tribuzio R., Riccardi M.P., Ottolini L. Trace element redistribution in high temperature deformed gabbros from East Ligurian ophiolites (Northern Apennines, Italy): constraints on the origin of syndeformation fluid. J. Metamorphic Geol. 1995, 13:367-377.
101. Tribuzio R., Riccardi M.P., Messiga B. Amphibolitization of Mg-and Fe-rich gabbroic dykes within mantle-derived serpentinites from Northern Apennine ophiolites: evidence for high-temperature hydration of the oceanic lithosphere. Ofioliti 1997, 22:71-80.
102. Tribuzio R., Tiepolo M., Vannucci R. Evolution of gabbroic rocks from the Northern Apennine ophiolites (Italy): comparison with the lower oceanic crust from modern slow-spreading ridges. Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and Ocean Drilling Program 2000, 129-138. Geological Society of America Memoir, Special Publication (2000). J. Dilek, E. Moores, D. Elthon, A. Nicolas (Eds.).
103. Tribuzio R., Tiepolo M., Thirlwall M.F. Titanian pargasite in gabbroic rocks from the Northern Apennine ophiolites (Italy): evidence for late percolation of igneous fluids in a MOR-type cumulate pile. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2000, 176:281-293.
104. Tribuzio R., Molli G., Piccardo G., Rampone E. The ocean-floor evolution of the gabbro-peridotite association from the Northern Apennine ophiolites, Field-trip guidebook, "1st InterRidge Theoretical Institute, Thermal Regime of Ocean Ridges and Dynamics of Circulation (Pavia, 9-13 September 2002)". Pavia 2002, 27.
105. Tribuzio R., Thirlwall M., Vannucci R. Origin of the gabbro-peridotite association form the Northern Apennine ophiolites (Italy). Journal of Petrology 2004, 45:1109-1124.
106. Tribuzio R., Montanini A., Thirlwall M.F. Origin of garnet pyroxenites from a non-volcanic rifted margin (External Liguride ophiolites, Northern Apennine, Italy). Polar Ridges Meeting and Workshop. Ofioliti 2006, 31(2).
107. Vannucci R., Rampone E., Piccardo G.B., Ottolini L., Bottazzi P. Ophiolitic magmatism in the Ligurian Tethys: an ione microprobe study of basaltic clinopyroxenes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 1993, 115:123-137.
108. Venturelli G., Capedri S., Thorpe R.S.P., Potts J. Rare earth and trace elements characteristic of ophiolitic metabasalts from the Alpine-Appenine belt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1981, 53:109-123.
109. Whitmarsh R.B., Sawyer D.S. The ocean-continent transition beneath the Iberia Abyssal Plain and continental-rifting-to-seafloor-spreading processes. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Project Scientific Results 1996, 149:713-733. R.B. Whitmarsh, D.S. Sawyer, A. Klaus, D.G. Masson (Eds.).
110. Whitmarsh R.B., Manatschal G., Minshull T.A. Evolution of magma-poor continental margins from rifting to seafloor spreading. Nature 2001, 413:150-154.
111. Workman R.K., Hart S.R. Major and trace element composition of the depleted MORB mantle (DMM). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2005, 231:53-72.
112. Yaxley G.M., Green D.H. Reactions between eclogite and peridotite: mantle refertilisation by subduction of oceanic crust. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 1998, 78:243-255.
113. Yaxley G.M., Sobolev E.A. High-pressure partial melting of gabbro and its role in the Hawaiian magma source. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 2007, 10.1007/s00410-007-0198-4.
114. Zindler A., Staudigel H., Batiza R. Isotope and trace element geochemistry of young Pacific seamounts: implications for the scale of upper mantle heterogeneity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1984, 70:175-195.