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The Gavorrano Monzogranite (Northern Apennines): An Updated Review of Host Rock Protoliths, Thermal Metamorphism and Tectonic Setting

Andrea Brogi
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Alfredo Caggianelli
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Domenico Liotta
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Martina Zucchi
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Amalia Spina
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Ernico Capezzuoli
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Alessandra Casini
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Elena Buracchi
Version 1 : Received: 28 December 2020 / Approved: 29 December 2020 / Online: 29 December 2020 (08:58:32 CET)

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Brogi, A.; Caggianelli, A.; Liotta, D.; Zucchi, M.; Spina, A.; Capezzuoli, E.; Casini, A.; Buracchi, E. The Gavorrano Monzogranite (Northern Apennines): An Updated Review of Host Rock Protoliths, Thermal Metamorphism and Tectonic Setting. Geosciences 2021, 11, 124. Brogi, A.; Caggianelli, A.; Liotta, D.; Zucchi, M.; Spina, A.; Capezzuoli, E.; Casini, A.; Buracchi, E. The Gavorrano Monzogranite (Northern Apennines): An Updated Review of Host Rock Protoliths, Thermal Metamorphism and Tectonic Setting. Geosciences 2021, 11, 124.

Abstract

We review and refine the geological setting of an area located nearby the Tyrrhenian seacoast, in the inner zone of the Northern Apennines (southern Tuscany), where a Neogene monzogranite body (estimated in about 3 km long, 1.5 km wide, and 0.7 km thick) emplaced during early Pliocene. This magmatic intrusion, known as the Gavorrano pluton, is partially exposed in a ridge bounded by regional faults delimiting broad structural depressions. A widespread circulation of geothermal fluids accompanied the cooling of the magmatic body and gave rise to an extensive Fe-ore deposit (mainly pyrite) exploited during the past century. The tectonic setting which favoured the emplacement and exhumation of the Gavorrano pluton is strongly debated with fallouts on the comprehension of the Neogene evolution of this sector of the inner Northern Apennines. Data from a new fieldwork dataset, integrated with information from the mining activity, have been integrated to refine the geological setting of the whole crustal sector where the Gavorrano monzogranite was emplaced and exhumed. Our review, implemented by new palynological, petrological and structural data pointed out that: i) the age of the Palaeozoic phyllite (hosting rocks) is middle-late Permian, thus resulting younger than previously described (i.e. pre-Carboniferous); ii) the P-T conditions at which the metamorphic aureole developed are estimated at about 660 °C and at a maximum depth of c. 5 km; iii) the tectonic evolution which determined the emplacement and exhumation of the monzogranite is constrained in a transfer zone, in the frame of the extensional tectonics affecting the area continuously since Miocene.

Keywords

magmatism; extensional tectonics; contact metamorphism; Gavorrano pluton; palynomorphs

Subject

Physical Sciences, Acoustics

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