The Alpine orogenic edifice of Corsica (northern Tyrrhenian Sea) offers the possibility to investigate the mode through which continental crust responds to the propagation of …
L Dulcetta, M Faure, P Rossi, G Cruciani… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, we investigated the Zicavo Metamorphic Complex (southern Corsica), which is part of the innermost Axial Zone of the Corsica-Sardinia Variscan belt. To better evaluate its …
ABSTRACT In Corsica Island (France), a belt of metamorphic continental units derived from the European margin is exposed at the western rim of the Alpine Corsica. This study …
Arsenic sulfide mineralization in Matra mine (southern Alpine Corsica) is hosted by two tectonic units belonging to the Schistes Lustrés Complex. Country rocks include a Jurassic …
The subduction of continental crust is now a matter of fact but which are the mechanisms and the factors controlling the exhumation of continental units and their coupling with …
G Cruciani, M Franceschelli, HJ Massonne… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Solenzara-Fautea unit is composed of Variscan migmatites and garnet-kyanite granulitic gneisses with pyroxenite boudins outcropping between the villages of Fautea and …
Along the Western Alps, the oceanic units showing blueschists to eclogite facies metamorphic imprint are classically regarded as fragments of the Ligurian-Piedmont Ocean …
The pre-Alpine history of the Venaco-Ghisoni Unit, a continental unit belonging to the Alpine Corsica (France), was reconstructed on the basis of U–Pb dating of zircon and allanite …