{"title":"Multiscale structural analysis in the subducted continental crust of the internal Sesia-Lanzo Zone (Monte Mucrone, Western Alps)","authors":"F. Delleani, M. Spalla, D. Castelli, G. Gosso","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2011.00287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2011.00287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116905305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kilias, A. Vamvaka, C. Fassoulas, G. Falalakis, Stylianos Avgerinas, A. Sfeikos, K. Pipera, Emmanouil Katrivanos, E. Thomaidou
{"title":"A geological cross-section through northern Greece from Pindos to Rhodope Mountain Ranges: a field guide across the External and Internal Hellenides","authors":"A. Kilias, A. Vamvaka, C. Fassoulas, G. Falalakis, Stylianos Avgerinas, A. Sfeikos, K. Pipera, Emmanouil Katrivanos, E. Thomaidou","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2016.08685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2016.08685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121263111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Geology of Ikaria Island:The Messaria extensional shear zone, granites and the exotic Ikaria nappe","authors":"U. Ring","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2007.00171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2007.00171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127436044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact Of Gravity And Other Geophysical Data On The Geology Of The Indian Subcontinent","authors":"T. Balakrishnan","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2003.00072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2003.00072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123599760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhodope: From Mesozoic convergence to Cenozoic extension","authors":"J. Burg","doi":"10.3809/jvirtex.2011.00270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/jvirtex.2011.00270","url":null,"abstract":"Mylonitic gneisses of the Bulgarian and Greek Rhodope were deformed under amphibolite-facies conditions of medium pressure type metamorphism. The kinematic information contained on the strain regime and histories of these gneisses shows that ductile, shear-deformation occurred during development of a nappe complex. The nappe complex is characterised by south to southwestward (forelandward) piling-up and both coeval and subsequent extension. Different lithologies, deformation and metamorphic histories discriminate lower (footwall) and upper (hangingwall) continental terranes that define a crustal-scale duplex. Ultrahigh-Pressure metamorphic rocks, eclogites, ophiolitic and magmatic arc protoliths are found in various units of the crustal-scale duplex structure. These rocks delineate a suture zone between the hanging wall and footwall continental units. Synmetamorphic suturing and thrusting imply crustal thickening during the Cretaceous, which implies that the Rhodope massif is a complex of synmetamorphic nappes stacked in a Tethyan active margin environment. The two blocks involved in the collision are the Moesian part of the European continent to the north, and the Lower-Rhodope Terrane to the south, which was a migrating block detached from Pangea during breakup times of this supercontinent. Regional inversions of synmetamorphic sense-of-shear indicate that exhumation tectonics began in Cretaceous times, possibly linked to upward-forward expulsion of low density arc and continental rocks. A Late Eocene marine transgression separates the early, late-orogenic extension/exhumation phase from another extension event accompanied by a major thermal and magmatic event and followed by the Miocene Aegean extension responsible for late grabens over the Rhodope Massif.","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122312506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Omosanya, R. A. Sanni, T. Laniyan, G. O. Mosuro, H. O. Omosanya, L. Falana
{"title":"Petrography and Petrogenesis of Pre-Mesozoic rocks, Ago-Iwoye NE, SW Nigeria","authors":"K. Omosanya, R. A. Sanni, T. Laniyan, G. O. Mosuro, H. O. Omosanya, L. Falana","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2012.00313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2012.00313","url":null,"abstract":"Detailed geological mapping was carried out in a part of Ago-Iwoye NE with a view to identify the rock types and determine their origin. Petrographic and whole rock analysis of seven rock samples collected during the initial mapping exercise was done through thin sectioning, and X-ray fluorescence. Minerals were studied in cross and plane polarized light; their contact angle and boundary interaction were inferred in thin section. Normative mineralogy of the rocks was also determined using CIPW Norm. The study area is underlain by both igneous and metamorphic rocks; the gneisses are migmatized and intruded by granitic rocks and pegmatite. The dominant minerals in thin section include quartz, biotite, muscovite and hornblende. Estimated mineral contact angle is ~56° and ~26° for hornblende-biotite and hornblende-muscovite, respectively. Mineral grain boundaries are planar and undulating in thin section. The geochemical study revealed major oxides such as SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, K2O and Na2O. The highest estimated liquid temperature occurred in the gneisses with a value of ~1014°C, mean of ~862°C, range of ~281°C and water content of 1.6% which shows that the rocks are metamorphic in origin. The volume composition shows that quartz has the highest volume in all the seven samples with a percentage value of ~68%. Discriminant plots show that the granites are quartz-rich granitoid and granodiorite while the gneisses have high liquidus temperature; all the rocks samples record high alteration indices and are derived from passive and continental margins. Rocks of the study area are Pan African granitoids emplaced into the polycyclic Pre-Cambrian migmatized complex host rock. Citation: 2012. Petrography and Petrogenesis of Pre-Mesozoic rocks, Ago-Iwoye NE, SW Nigeria. In: (Ed.) Gordon S. Lister, Journal of the Virtual Explorer, volume 40, paper 1, doi: 10.3809/jvirtex.2012.00313 Journal of the Virtual Explorer, 2012 Volume 40 Paper 1 http://virtualexplorer.com.au/","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"404 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122861683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Malavieille, G. Molli, M. Ferrandini, J. Ferrandini, M. M. Spella, A. V. Brovarone, O. Beyssac, Laurent Ciancaleoni, M. Maggi, F. Rossetti
{"title":"Field Trip 2 - General Architecture and tectonic evolution of Alpine Corsica. Insights from a transect between Bastia and the Balagne region.","authors":"J. Malavieille, G. Molli, M. Ferrandini, J. Ferrandini, M. M. Spella, A. V. Brovarone, O. Beyssac, Laurent Ciancaleoni, M. Maggi, F. Rossetti","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2011.00301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2011.00301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122043519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle during Mesozoic Rifting in the Ligure-Piedmontese Domain","authors":"G. B. Piccardo","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2010.00219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2010.00219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122104846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Destruction of the North China Craton: evidence from the Bohai Bay Basin","authors":"Guiting Hou, Mohan Yang, Weihou Yao","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2009.00243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2009.00243","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117282714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Past and present mid-intensity explosive eruptions of Italian volcanoes and their impact on human activity","authors":"R. Cioni, A. Bertagnini, C. D’Oriano, M. Pompilio","doi":"10.3809/JVIRTEX.2009.00229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3809/JVIRTEX.2009.00229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Virtual Explorer","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129816808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}