Deciphering the geologic memory of a Permian conglomerate of the Southern Alps by pebble P-T estimates

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 203-226

  Spalla, M Iole ^a,b   Zanoni, Davide ^a,c   Gosso, Guido ^a,b   Zucali, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lower Permian conglomerates; Southern Alps; Tectono metamorphic units; Variscan exhumation

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EXHUMATION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; P-T CONDITIONS; PEBBLE; PERMIAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 59249098281     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-007-0241-8     Document Type: Article

References (105)

1. Arthaud F, Matte P (1977) Late Palaeozoic strike-slip faulting in Southern Europe and Northern Africa: Results of a right-lateral shear zone between the Appalachians and Urals. Geol Soc Am Bull 88:1305-1320
2. Assereto R, Casati P (1965) Revisione della stratigrafia permo-triassica della Val Camonica meridionale (Lombardia). Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr 71:999-1097
3. Assereto R, Bosellini A, Fantini Sestini N, Sweet WC (1973) The Permian-Triassic boundary in the Southern Alps (Italy). In: Logan A, Hills LV (eds) The Permian and Triassic system and their mutual boundary. Canad Soc Petrol Geol 2:176-199
4. Bakos F, Del Moro A, Visonà D (1990) The Hercynian volcano-plutonic association of Ganna (Lake Lugano, Central Southern Alps, Italy). Eur J Miner 2:373-383
5. Barth S, Mohr BAR (1994) Palynostratigraphically determined age of the Tregiovo sedimentary complex in relation to radiometric emplacement ages of the Atesina volcanic complex (Permian, Southern Alps, N Italy). N Jb Geol Paläont Abh 192:273-292
6. Bell TH, Rubenach MJ, Fleming PD (1986) Porphyroblast nucleation, growth and dissolution in regional metamorphic rocks as a function of deformation partitioning during foliation development. J Metamorph Geol 4:37-67
7. Beltrami G, Bianchi A, Bonsignore G, Callegari E, Casati P, Crespi R, Dieni I, Gnaccolini M, Liborio G, Montrasio A, Mottana A, Ragni U, Schiavinato G, Zanettin B (1971) Note illustrative alla Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:100000, Foglio 19: Tirano. Servizio Geologico Italiano
8. Bergomi MA (2004) Integrated study of "Gneiss Chiari" in the framework of the Orobic basement of Southern Alps (field relationships, mineral chemistry, geochemistry and geochronology). Eur J Miner, PLINIUS, It Suppl 30:54-59
9. Bertoluzza L, Perotti CR (1997) A finite-element model of the stress field in strike-slip basin: Implication for the Permian tectonics of the Southern Alps (Italy). Tectonophysics 280:185-197
10. Bocchio R, Crespi R, Liborio G, Mottana A (1980) Variazioni composizionali delle miche chiare nel metamorfismo progrado degli scisti sudalpini dell'alto lago di Como. Mem Sci Geol Padova 34:153-176
11. Boni A (1955) Geologia della regione fra il Sebino e l'Eridio. Parte 3: Il margine orientale. Atti Ist Geol Università di Pavia 5:13-64
12. Boni A, Cassinis G, Cerro A, Rossetti R (1972) Carta geologica delle Prealpi bresciane a sud dell'Adamello. Università di Pavia
13. Bonsignore G, Casati P, Crespi R, Fagnani G, Liborio G, Montrasio A, Mottana A, Ragni U, Schiavinato G, Venzo S (1971) Note Illustrative della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:100.000, Fogli 7 e 18: Pizzo Bernina e Sondrio. Nuova Tecnica Grafica, Serv Geol It, Roma, pp 1-130
14. Bosellini A (1973) Modello geodinamico e paleotettonico delle Alpi Meridionali durante il Giurassico-Cretaceo. Sue possibili applicazioni agli Appennini. In: Accordi B et al (eds) Moderne vedute sulla geologia dell'Appennino. Acc Naz Lincei, 183:163-205
15. Breitkreuz C, Cortesogno L, Gaggero L (2001) Crystal-rich mass flow deposits related to the eruption of a sublacustrine silicic cryptodome (Early Permian Collio Basin, Italian Alps). J Volcanol Geotherm Res 114:373-390
16. Bucher K, Frey M (2002) Petrogenesis of metamorphic rocks. Springer, Berlin, pp 1-341
17. Cadel G (1986) Geology and Uranium mineralization of the Collio Basin (Central Southern Alps, Italy). Uranium 2:215-540
18. Cadel G, Cosi M, Pennacchioni G, Spalla MI (1996) A new map of the Permo-Carboniferous cover and Variscan metamorphic basement in the Central Orobic Alps, Southern Alps - Italy. Mem Sci Geol Padova 48:1-53
19. Cadel G, Fuchs Y, Meneghel L (1987) Uranium mineralization associated with the evolution of a Permo-Carboniferous volcanic field. Example from Novazza and Val Vedello (Northern Italy). Uranium 3:407-421
20. Carminati E, Siletto GB, Battaglia D (1997) Thrust kinematics and internal deformation in basement involved foreland fold and thrust belts: The Eastern Orobic Alps case (Central Southern Alps, Northern Italy). Tectonics 16:259-271
21. Casati P, Gnaccolini M (1967) Geologia delle Alpi Orobie occidentali. Riv Ital Paleont Stratigr 73:25-172
22. Cassinis G (1966a) Rassegna delle formazioni permiane dell'alta Val Trompia (Brescia). Atti Ist Geol Università di Pavia 17:51-66
23. Cassinis G (1966b) La formazione di Collio nell'area tipo dell'Alta Val Trompia. Riv Ital Paleont Strat 72:507-588
24. Cassinis G (1968) Sezione stratigrafica delle Arenarie Rosse permiane presso il Passo di Croce Domini (Brescia). Atti Ist Geol Università di Pavia 19:3-14
25. Cassinis G (1969) Conglomerato del Dosso dei Galli. St. Ill. Carta Geol Italia, Form Geol 2:3-12
26. Cassinis G (1983) Il Permiano nel Gruppo dell'Adamello, alla luce delle ricerche sui coevi terreni delle aree contermini. Mem Soc Geol It 26:119-132
27. Cassinis G (1988) Carta geologica dei depositi continentali permiani a sud dell'Adamello. Atti Ticin Sci Terra, Pavia 31
28. Cassinis G (1999) Excursion 1: The continental Permian from Eastern Lombardy to the Southwesternmost part of Trentino. In: Cassinis G, Cortesogno L, Gaggero L, Massari F, Neri C, Nicosia U, Pittau P (eds) Stratigraphy and facies of the Permian depositis between eastern Lombardy and the western Dolomites. International field conference on "the continental Permian of the Southern Alps and Sardinia (Italy). Regional reports and general correlations". Earth Sciences Department, University of Pavia, Brescia, pp 45-79
29. Cassinis G, Castellarin A (1988) Il significato delle Linee della Gallinera e delle Giudicarie Sud nella zona dell'Adamello e zone circostanti. Atti Ticin Sci Terra, Pavia 31:446-462
30. Cassinis G, Doubinger J (1991) On the geological time of the typical Collio and Tregiovo continental beds in the Southalpine Permian (Italy), and some additional observations. Atti Ticin Sci Terra Pavia 34:1-20
31. Cassinis G, Doubinger J (1992) Artinskian and Ufimian palynomorph assemblages from the central Southern Alps, Italy, and their stratigraphic regional implications. In: Nairm AEM, Korotev V (eds) Contribution to Eurasian geology. International congress on the Permian system of the world. Columbia University of South Carolina, Perm, Russia, ESRI New Series 8b:9-18
32. Cassinis G, Neri C (1990) Collio and Tregiovo Permian continetal basins (Southern Alps, Italy): A general comparison. Atti Ticin Sci Terra 33:11-15
33. Cassinis G, Neri C (1999) Outline of the Permian stratigraphy in the Southern Alps. In: Cassinis G, Cortesogno L, Gaggero L, Massari F, Neri C, Nicosia U, Pittau P (eds) Stratigraphy and facies of the Permian deposits between eastern Lombardy and the western Dolomites. International field conference on "the continental Permian of the Southern Alps and Sardinia (Italy). Regional reports and general correlations". Earth Sciences Department, University of Pavia, Brescia, pp 7-10
34. Cassinis G, Perotti CR (1993) Interazione strutturale permiana tra la linea delle Giudicarie e i bacini di Collio, Tione e Tregiovo (Sudalpino centrale, N Italia). Boll Soc Geol It 112:1021-1036
35. Cassinis G, Perotti CR (1997) Tectonics and sedimentation in the western sector of the Permian Continental Collio Basin, Southern Alps, Italy. In: Prace Panstwowego Instytutu Geologicznego CLVII, Proceedings of the XIII international congress on the Carboniferus and Permian. Warszawa Part 2:25-32
36. Cassinis G, Peyronel Pagliani G (1976) Le Permien des Préalpes lombardes orientales. In: Falke H (ed) The continental Permian in Central, West and South Europe. NATO Adv St Inst 22:148-168
37. Cassinis G, Giobbi Origoni E, Pyronel Pagliani G (1975) Osservazioni geologiche e petrografiche sul Permiano della bassa Val Caffaro (Lombardia orientale). Atti Is Geol Università di Pavia 25:17-71
38. Cassinis G, Elter G, Rau A, Tongiorgi M (1980) Verrucano: A tectofacies of the Alpine-Mediterranean Southern Europe. Mem Soc Geol Ital 20:135-149
39. Cassinis G, Massari F, Neri C, Venturini C (1988) The continental Permian of the Southern Alps. A review. Z Geol Wiss 16:117-1126
40. Castellarin A (1972) Evoluzione paleotettonica sinsedimentaria del limite tra "piattaforma veneta" e "bacino lombardo" a Nord di Riva del Garda. Giorn Geol 38:11-212
41. Ceriani S (1994) Studio meso e microstrutturale dei complessi litologici del basamento Orobico orientale della Val Campovecchio e Monte Castel di Piccolo. Laurea thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, pp 1-126
42. Cloos M (1993) Lithosferic buoyancy and collisional orogenesis: subduction of oceanic plateaus, continental margins, island arcs, spreading ridges and seamounts. Geol Soc Am Bull 105:715-737
43. Colombo A, Siletto GB, Tunesi A (1994) Pre-Variscan magmatism in the central Southern Alps; the Monte Fioraro magmatic complex. Schweiz Miner Petrog Mitt 74:127-135
44. Conti MA, Mariotti N, Nicosia U, Pittau P (1997) Succession of selected bioevents in the continental Permian of the Southern Alps (Italy): improvements in intrabasinal and interregional correlations. In: Dickins JM, Zunyi Y, Hongfu Y, Lucas SG, Acharyya S (eds) Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic Circum-Pacific Events and Their Global Correlation. Cambrige University Press, Cambrige, pp 51-65
45. Cornelius HP (1916) Zur Kenntnis der Wurzelregion im unteren Veltlin. N Jahr Min Geol Paläont 40:253-363
46. de Bjerg SC, Mogiesse A, Bjerg E (1992) HYPER-FORM; a Hyper Card program for Macintosh microcomputers to calculate mineral formulae from electron microprobe and wet chemical analysis. Comput Geosci 21:1187-1190
47. De Capitani L, Delitala MC, Liborio G, Mottana A, Rodeghiero F, Thöni M (1994) The granitoid rocks of Val Navazze, Val Torgola and Val di Rango (Val Trompia, Lombardy, Italy). Mem Sci Geol Padova 46:329-343
48. De Sitter LU, De Sitter-Koomans CM (1949) Geology of the Bergamasc Alps, Lombardia, Italy. Leidse Geol Meded 14:1-257
49. di Paola S (1997) Studio strutturale e metamorfico del basamento dell'Alto Lario: Confronto tra l'evoluzione tettonico-metamorfica delle metabasiti della Zona Domaso-Cortafò (Valle Albano e Monte Sasso Pelo) e le metabasiti della Zona Dervio-Olgiasca. Laurea thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, pp 1-118
50. di Paola S, Spalla MI, Gosso G (2001) New structural mapping and metamorphic evolution of the Domaso Cortafò Zone (Southern Alps'Lake Como). Mem Sci Geol Padova 53:1-14
51. Diella V, Spalla MI, Tunesi A (1992) Contrasted thermo-mechanical evolutions in the Southalpine metamorphic basement of the Orobic Alps (Central Alps, Italy). J Metamorph Geol 10:203-219
52. England PC, Thompson AB (1984) Pressure-temperature-time paths of regional metamorphism I. Heat transfer during the evolution of regions of thickened continental crust. J Petrol 25:894-928
53. Gansser A, Pantic N (1988) Prealpine events along the Eastern Insubric Line (Tonale Line, northern Italy). Eclogae Geol Helv 81:567-577
54. Giobbi Origoni E, Gregnanin A (1983) The crystalline basement of the "Massiccio delle Tre Valli Bresciane": New petrographic and chemical data. Mem Soc Geol It 26:133-144
55. Gosso G, Siletto GB, Spalla MI (1997) International ophiolite symposium field excursion guide - continental rifting to ocean floor metamorphism (21st-23rd September 1995): First day: H-T/L-P metamorphism and structures in the South-Alpine basement near Lake Como, Orobic Alps; intracontinental imprints of the Permo-Triassic rifting. Ofioliti 22:133-145
56. Gradstein F, Ogg J, Smith A (2004) A geologic time scale. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 1-589
57. Green NL, Usdansky SI (1986) Ternary-feldspar mixing relations and thermobarometry. Am Mineral 71:1100-1108
58. Green TH, Hellman PL (1982) Fe-Mg partitioning between coexisting garnet and phengite at high pressure, and comments on a garnet-phengite geothermometer. Lithos 15:253-266
59. Hobbs BE, Means WD, Williams PF (1976) An outline of structural geology. Wiley, New York, pp 1-571
60. Hodges KV, Crowley PD (1985) Error estimation and empirical geothermobarometry for pelitic systems. Am Mineral 1985:7-8
61. Holdaway MJ (1971) Stability of andalusite and the aluminium silicate phase diagram. Am J Sci 271:97-131
62. Holland T, Powell R (1998) An internally consistent thermodynamic data set for phases of petrological interest. J Metamorph Geol 16:309-344
63. Italian IGCP 203 Group (1986) Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary in the South-Alpine segment of the western Tethys. Field Guide-Book. SGI-IGCP Project 203. Pavia, Brescia (Italy), pp 1-180
64. Jin Y, Wang W, Wang Y, Cai C (1998) Prospect for global correlation of Permian sequences. Proc R Soc of Victoria, Melbourne 110:73-83
65. Kretz R (1983) Symbols for rock-forming minerals. Am Mineral 68:277-279
66. Laubscher HP (1983) Detachment, shear and compression in Central Alps. In: Hatcher RDJ, Williams H, Zietz I (eds) Contributions to the tectonics and geophysics of mountain chains. Geol Soc Am Mem 158:191-211
67. Le Goff E, Ballevre M (1990) Méthodes d'estimation des conditions pression-température dans les orthogneisses: Analyse des relations de phases. C R Acad Sci Paris t 311:119-125
68. Marotta AM, Spalla MI (2007) Permian-Triassic high thermal regime in the Alps: Result of Late Variscan collapse or continental rifting? Validation by numerical modeling. Tectonics doi: 10.1029/2006TC002047
69. Massari F (1998) Some thoughts on the Permian-Triassic evolution of the South-Alpine area (Italy). In: Cassinis G (ed) Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary in the South-Alpine segment of the Western Tethys, and additional regional reports. Mem Soc Geol It 34:179-188
70. Massari F, Neri C, Pittau P, Fontana D, Stefani C (1994) Sedimentology, palynostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of a continental to shallow-marine rift-related succession: Upper Permian of the eastern Southern Alps (Italy). Mem Sci Geol Padova 46:119-243
71. Massonne HJ, Schreyer W (1987) Phengite geobarometry based on the limiting assemblage with K-feldspar, phlogopite and quartz. Contrib Miner Petrol 96:212-224
72. Milano PF, Pennacchioni G, Spalla MI (1988) Alpine and pre-Alpine tectonics in the Central Orobic Alps (Southern Alps). Eclogae Geol Helv 81:273-293
73. Miller C, Stosch HB, Hoernes S (1988) Geochemistry and origin of eclogites from the type locality Koralpe and Saualpe, Eastern Alps, Austria. Chem Geol 67:103-118
74. Mottana A, Nicoletti M, Petrucciani G, Liborio G, De Capitani L, Bocchio R (1985) Pre-Alpine and Alpine evolution of the Southalpine basement of the Orobic Alps. Geol Rundsch 74:353-366
75. Ori GG, Dalla S, Cassinis G (1986) Depositional history of the Permian continental sequence in the Val Trompia - Passo Croce Domini area (Brescian Alps, Italy). Mem Soc Geol It 34:141-154
76. Passchier CW, Trouw RAJ (1996) Microtectonics. Springer, Berlin, pp 1-289
77. Peacock SM (1993) The importance of blueschist-eclogite dehydration reactions in subducting oceanic crust. Geol Soc Am Bull 105:684-694
78. Perchuk LL (1991) Progress in metamorphic and magmatic petrology; a memorial volume in honor of D. S. Korzhinskiy. University Press, Cambridge
79. Perotti CR, Siletto GB (1996) Le caratteristiche geometriche dei bacini permiani tra la Val Camonica e la Val Giudicarie (Sudalpino Centrale). Atti Ticin Sci Terra Pavia 4:77-86
80. Peyronel Pagliani G (1965) Studio petrografico delle vulcaniti della "Formazione di Collio" in alta V. Trompia (Brescia). Rend Ist Lomb Sc Mat Fis Chim e Geol 99:148-174
81. Peyronel Pagliani G, Clerici Risari E (1973) Le ignimbriti paleozoiche costituenti la formazione "Vulcaniti d'Auccia" (Permico Bresciano). Atti Ist Geol Università di Pavia 23:160-169
82. Pigazzini N (2003) Analisi meso e microstrutturale delle metapeliti a cloritoide, staurolite e andalusite nel basamento sudalpino della Val Camonica tra Sellero e Forno d'Allione. Laurea thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, pp 1-208
83. Pinarelli L, Del Moro A, Boriani A (1988) Rb-Sr geochronology of Lower Permian Plutonism in Massiccio dei Laghi, Southern Alps (NW Italy). Rend Soc It Miner Petrol 42: 411-428
84. Remy W, Remy R (1978) Die Flora des Perm im Trompia-Tal und die Grenze Saxon/Thuring in den Alpen. Argumenta Palaebot Munster 5:57-90
85. Riklin KA (1983) Kontaktmetamorphose Permischer Sandsteine im Adamello Massif. Ph.D. thesis, E.T.H., Zürich
86. Rock NMS, Carroll GW (1990) MINTAB; a general-purpose mineral recalculation and tabulation program for Macintosh microcomputers. Am Mineral 75:424-430
87. Rottura A, Del Moro A, Caggianelli A, Bargossi GM, Gasparotto G (1997) Petrogenesis of the Monte Croce granitoids in the contexts of Permian magmatism in the Southern Alps, Italy. Eur J Mineral 9:1293-1310
88. Salomon W (1901) Über neue geologische Aufnahmen der östlichen Haelfte der Adamellogruppe. Sitz k preuss Akad Wiss 1:170-185
89. Schaltegger U, Brack P (1999) Radiometric age constraints on the formation of the Collio Basin (Brescian Prealps). In: Cassinis G, Cortesogno L, Gaggero L, Massari F, Neri C, Nicosia U, Pittau P (eds) Stratigraphy and facies of the Permian depositis between eastern Lombardy and the western Dolomites. International field conference on "the continental Permian of the Southern Alps and Sardinia (Italy). Regional reports and general correlations". Earth Sciences Department, University of Pavia, Brescia, p 71
90. Schreurs J (1985) Prograde metamorphism of metapelites, garnet-biotite thermometry and prograde changes of biotite chemistry in high grade rocks of West Uusimaa, southwest Finland. Lithos 18:69-80
91. Sciunnach D (2001) The Lower Permian in the Orobic Anticline (Southern Alps, Lomabardy): A review based on new stratigraphic and petrographic data. Riv Ital Paleontol Stratigr 107:47-68
92. Siletto GB (1991) Cronologia relativa dei sovrascorrimenti in aree selezionate del basamento Orobico. Ph.D. thesis, Università degli studi di Milano, pp 1-145
93. Siletto GB, Spalla MI, Tunesi A, Lardeaux JM, Colombo A (1993) Pre-Alpine structural and metamorphic histories in the Orobic Southern Alps, Italy. In: Von Raumer JF, Neubauer F (eds) Pre-Mesozoic geology in the Alps. Springer, Berlin, pp 585-598
94. Spalla MI, Carminati E, Ceriani S, Oliva A, Battaglia D (1999) Influence of deformation partitioning and metamorphic re-equilibration on P-T path reconstruction in the pre-Alpine basement of central southern Alps (northern Italy). J Metamorph Geol 17:319-336
95. Spalla MI, Diella V, Pigazzini N, Siletto GB, Gosso G (2006) Significato tettonico della transizione Cld - And nelle metapeliti del Basamento Sudalpino (Alta Val Camonica). Rend Soc Geol It, 2:182-183
96. Spalla MI, Gosso G (1999) Pre-Alpine tectono-metamorphic units in the central Southern Alps: Structural and metamorphic memory. In: Gosso G, Jadoul F, Sella M, Spalla MI (eds) 3rd Workshop on Alpine geological studies. Mem Sci Geol Padova, Oropa, Biella (Italy), 51:221-229
97. Spalla MI, Gosso G, Siletto GB, di Paola S, Magistroni C (1998) Strumenti per individuare unità tettono-meamorfiche nel rilevamento geologico del basamento cristallino. Mem Soc Geol Padova 50:155-164
98. Spalla MI, Siletto GB, di Paola S, Gosso G (2000) The role of structural and metamorphic memory in the distinction of tectono-metamorphic units: the basement of the Como lake in the Southern Alps. J Geodyn 30:191-204
99. Spalla MI, Zucali M, di Paola S, Gosso G (2005) A critical assestament of the tectono-thermal memory of rocks and definition of the tectono-metamorphic units: Evidence from fabric and degree of metamorphic transformations. In: Gapais D, Brun JP, Cobbold PR (eds) Deformation mechanisms, rheology and tectonics: From minerals to the lithosphere. Geol Soc Lond Spec Publ 243:227-247
100. 2O. Contrib Mineral Petrol 101:149-164
101. Thöni M, Mottana A, Delitala MC, De Capitani L, Liborio G (1992) The Val Biandino composite pluton: A Late Hercynian intrusion into the South Alpine metamorphic basement of the Alps (Italy). N Jb Miner Mh 12:545-554
102. Vernon RH (1976) Metamorphic processes. Wiley, New York pp 1-247
103. Wu CM, Wang XS, Yang CH, Geng YS, Liu FL (2002) Empirical garnet-muscovite geothermometry in metapelities. Lithos 62:1-13
104. Zack T, Eynatten H, von Kronz A (2004) Rutile geochemistry and its potential use in quantitative provenance studies. Sedim Geol 171:37-58
105. Ziegler PA (1988) Evolution of Artic-North Atlantic and Western Tethys. Am Assoc Petrol Geol Mem pp 1-198