Building an orogen: review of u-pb zircon ages from the calabria–peloritani terrane to constrain the timing of the southern variscan belt

A Fornelli, V Festa, F Micheletti, R Spiess, F Tursi - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The application of zircon dating to the reconstruction of orogenic systems is invaluable since
time constraints of the geological evolution of orogens are crucial for the proposal of …

A Review of the Mineralogy, Petrography, and Geochemistry of Serpentinite from Calabria Regions (Southern Italy): Problem or Georesource?

R Punturo, R Visalli, R Cirrincione - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Serpentinite rocks testify to the ocean-floor metamorphism that took place and transformed
the original mineralogy and fabric of previous ultramafic rocks. Due to their tectonic and …

Active degassing of crustal CO2 in areas of tectonic collision: A case study from the Pollino and Calabria sectors (Southern Italy)

P Randazzo, A Caracausi, A Aiuppa… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is released from the Earth's interior into the atmosphere through both
volcanic and non-volcanic sources in a variety of tectonic settings. A quantitative …

Orogenic evolution of the northern Calabria− southern Apennines system in the framework of the Alpine chains in the central-western Mediterranean area

S Ciarcia, S Vitale - Geological Society of America …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The northern Calabrian ranges and the southern Apennines are part of a single orogenic
segment of the Alpine chain system framing the central-western Mediterranean Sea. Three …

Submagmatic to solid-state deformation microstructures recorded in cooling granitoids during exhumation of late-Variscan crust in North-Eastern Sicily

E Fazio, P Fiannacca, D Russo, R Cirrincione - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Late-Variscan granitoid rocks of trondhjemitic and granitic composition, intruded in
migmatitic paragneisses in the north-eastern Peloritani Mountains (southern Italy) at~ 310 …

The Petilia-Sosti Shear Zone (Calabrian Arc, southern Italy): An onshore-offshore regional active structure

D Civile, M Zecchin, L Tosi, C Da Lio, F Muto… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The integrated interpretation of different types of data, consisting of a detailed Digital Terrain
Model, field structural and morphotectonic observations, high resolution seismic data …

Micro-Fabric Analyzer (MFA): A new semiautomated ArcGIS-based edge detector for quantitative microstructural analysis of rock thin-sections

R Visalli, G Ortolano, G Godard… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Micro-Fabric Analyzer (MFA) is a new GIS-based tool for the quantitative extrapolation of
rock microstructural features that takes advantage both of the characteristics of the X-ray …

The key role of µH2O gradients in deciphering microstructures and mineral assemblages of mylonites: examples from the Calabria polymetamorphic terrane

F Tursi - Mineralogy and Petrology, 2022 - Springer
A careful petrologic analysis of mylonites' mineral assemblages is crucial for a thorough
comprehension of the rheologic behaviour of ductile shear zones active during an …

Geology and structure of the Serre Massif upper crust: a look in to the late-Variscan strike–slip kinematics of the Southern European Variscan chain

G Ortolano, M Pagano, R Visalli, G Angì… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new geological-structural map of the southern Serre Massif (SM), in the south-
central part of the Calabrian-Peloritani-Orogen (CPO), is provided. CPO is a ribbon-like …

What can high‐P sheared orthogneisses tell us? An example from the Curinga–Girifalco Line (Calabria, southern Italy)

F Tursi, P Acquafredda, V Festa… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐P (HP) mineral parageneses are usually poorly developed within metagranitoids, as
these rocks are commonly affected by fluid‐deficient conditions when experiencing a …