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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
Volume 104, Issue 2, Pages 335-350Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00531-014-1090-x
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Ordovician forearc magmatism; Cratonization; Alaskan-type subduction-accretion; Ceneri gneiss; Strona-Ceneri zone; Lachlan fold belt
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- Swiss Academy of Sciences
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An important part of the pre-Mesozoic basement of the Alps is the product of orogenic processes occurred in Ordovician times. Most of the geological constrains for this reconstruction have been obtained by the study of the Strona-Ceneri zone in the Southern Alps, where Alpine overprint was weak. The erosion of late Pan-African belts delivered large amounts of greywackes and pelites into subduction zones along Gondwana. The sediments were subducted and accreted to form wide complexes. As a result of the large sediment input, subduction retreated and the mantle-derived magmas intruded the base of the fertile mud pile. This initiated substantial anatexis to produce peraluminous magmas, which intruded and extruded syntectonically. Thereby, the predominantly steeply structured subduction-accretion complex provided ideal pathways for the uprising magmas, and down-thrusting host rocks to result in an isostatically stable crust. The SE Australian Lachlan fold belt is interpreted as an upper crustal analog of the Strona-Ceneri zone. Based on the combination of their geology, a crustal profile through an Alaskan type of orogen is drawn.
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