P-T-t evolution of metamorphic and mantle rocks
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This research is focussed on geology, geochemistry, petrology and geochronology of metamorphic and mantle rocks from distinct geodynamic settings in order to define the P-T-t conditions at which these rocks re-equilibrated. The aim is to characterize and understand the relevant metamorphic processes occurring during rifting, subduction, collision and exhumation. The studied localities are: central-western Alps (Italy-France), the Dabie-Sulu orogen (China), the Ethiopian plateau and the Canary islands.
(a) Photomicrograph of an harzburgitic xenolith consisting of distinct generations of olivine (Ethiopian plateau); (b) catodoluminescenze image of a zoned dolomite within a two carbonate UHP marble (Dora-Maira Internal Crystalline Massif); (c) variscan P-T-t path of the Gesso-Stura terrain (Argentera External Crystalline Massif).
Key-words: metamorphic evolution, tectono-thermal evolution, convergent and divergent margins.
Main Partnership
Frezzotti Maria Luce, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Froitzheim Nikolaus, University of Bonn, Germany
Gianreto Manatschal, University of Strasbourg, France
Proyer Alexander, University of Botswana, Botswana
Rubatto Daniela, University of Bern, Switzerland
Publications
GROPPO C., FERRANDO S., GILIO M., BOTTA S., NOSENZO F., BALESTRO G., FESTA A., ROLFO F. (in press; accepted 18 April 2019): What's in the sandwich? New P-T constraints for the (U)HP nappe stack of southern Dora-Maira Massif (Western Alps). European Journal of Mineralogy, doi: 10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-286
DE BERNARDI S., FERRANDO S., DECARLIS A., BORGHI A., MANATSCHAL G. (2018): Post-Variscan events recorded near the Pogallo line (Lago d’Orta). Congresso SGI-SIMP 2018, Catania, Italia, 12-14 Settembre 2018, Abstract book, 187.
DE BERNARDI S., FERRANDO S., DECARLIS A., BORGHI A., MANATSCHAL G. (2018): Evidence for post-Variscan partial melting of amphibolites in the Strona-Ceneri Border Zone (Lago d’Orta, northern Italy). GeoBonn 2018, Bonn, Germany, 02-06 September 2018, Abstract book, 52.
FERRANDO S., COMPAGNONI R., COSSIO R. (2017): Metamorphic evolution of a metaperidotite from the Monviso meta-ophiolite complex, Italian Western Alps. Congresso SIMP-SGI-SOGEI-AIV 2017, Pisa, Italia, 03-06 Settembre 2017, Abstract book, 66.
DECARLIS A., FELLIN M.G., MAINO M., FERRANDO S., MANATSCHAL G., GAGGERO L., SENO S., STUART F.M., BELTRANDO M. (2017): Tectono-thermal evolution of a distal rifted margin: constraints from the Calizzano Massif (Prepiedmont-Briançonnais domain, Ligurian Alps). Tectonics, 36, 3209-3228, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004634
REAL C., CAROSI R., FERRANDO S., FROITZHEIM N., RUBATTO D., GROPPO C. (2017): The complex polymetamorphic history of the Southalpine realm: evolution of continental crustal slices from Variscan to Alpine time. Congresso SIMP-SGI-SOGEI-AIV 2017, Pisa, Italia, 03-06 Settembre 2017, Abstract book, 365.
FERRANDO S., GROPPO C., FREZZOTTI M.L., CASTELLI D., PROYER A. (2017): Dissolving dolomite in a stable UHP mineral assemblage: evidence from Cal-Dol marbles of the Dora-Maira Massif (Italian Western Alps). American Mineralogist, 102, 42-60. doi: 10.2138/am-2017-5761
LOMBARDO B., COMPAGNONI R., FERRANDO S., RADULESCO N., ROLLAND Y. (2011): Variscan geology of the Argentera Massif, Western Alps and comparison with the Maures-Tanneron Massifs (France). Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. Nice, 26, 139-163.
COMPAGNONI R., FERRANDO S., LOMBARDO B., RADULESCO N., RUBATTO D. (2010): Paleo-European crust of the Italian Western Alps: Geological history of the Argentera Massif and comparison with Mont Blanc-Aiguilles Rouges and Maures-Tanneron Massifs. In: (Eds.) Marco Beltrando, Angelo Peccerillo, Massimo Mattei, Sandro Conticelli, and Carlo Doglioni, The Geology of Italy, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, ISSN 1441-8142, 36, paper 3, doi: 10.3809/jvirtex.2010.00228
RUBATTO D., FERRANDO S., COMPAGNONI R. & LOMBARDO B. (2010): Carboniferous high-pressure metamorphism of Ordovician protoliths in the Argentera Massif (Italy), Southern European Variscan belt. Lithos, 116, 65-76. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2009.12.013
FERRANDO S., LOMBARDO B., COMPAGNONI R. (2008): Metamorphic history of HP mafic granulites from the Gesso-Stura Terrain (Argentera Massif, Western Alps, Italy). European Journal of Mineralogy, 20, 777-790.
FERRANDO S., FREZZOTTI M.L., NEUMANN E.R., DE ASTIS G., PECCERILLO A., DEREJE A., GEZAHEGN Y. & TEKLEWOLD A. (2008): Composition and thermal structure of the lithosphere beneath the Ethiopian plateau: evidence from mantle xenoliths in basanites, Injibara, Lake Tana Province. Mineralogy & Petrology, 93¸ 47-78. doi: 10.1007/s00710-007-0219-z