Revisiting the Lanzo peridotite (NW-Italy): "Asthenospherization" of ancient mantle lithosphere

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serval:BIB_2527DC19236C
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Revisiting the Lanzo peridotite (NW-Italy): "Asthenospherization" of ancient mantle lithosphere
Journal
Ofioliti
Author(s)
Muntener O., Piccardo G.B., Polino R., Zanetti A.
ISSN-L
0391-2612
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2005
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
30
Pages
111-124
Language
english
Abstract
In this paper, we compiled previous investigations and summarize recent
results to show that the Lanzo peridotite records a sequence of deep
lithospheric igneous events that largely obliterated the previous
subcontinental history. Field, microtextural and trace element data
indicate the progressive evolution of an igneous system that forms
above an upwelling asthenosphere, most probably during the transition
from a rifted system to the establishment of an (ultra-) slow spreading
ridge of the Piedmont Ligurian ocean. Pervasive porous flow of melt
forming `reactive' spinel peridotites followed by plagioclase
peridotite is later replaced by focused porous flow, reflected by a
system of replacive harzburgite and dunites. Cooling of the Lanzo
peridotite leads to the interstitial crystallization of clinopyroxene
and plagioclase, and finally to the formation of gabbro dikes. Thus,
the Lanzo peridotites may indicate that extension-driven
`as-thenospherization' of lithospheric mantle is an important process
in the development of embryonic ocean basins.
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