The Argentera Massif in the western Alps is made of up two medium–high-grade metamorphic complexes of Variscan age. They are separated by a regional-scale northwest-trending shear zone, the Ferrière–Mollières Line, which consists of low-grade mylonitic rocks. Muscovite-bearingmylonitic leucogranites crop out as subvertical northwest-trending intrusions, in the northern portion of the shear zone. A Rb/Sr muscovite–wr age of 327±3 Ma on foliated leucogranite gives a lower limit for the age of mylonitic deformation for which kinematic indicators indicate a dextral sense of shear. This strike-slip tectonics is compatible with the extensional regime that occurred during Carboniferous in the whole western Europe
Late Visean mylonitic granitoids in the Argentera Massif (Western Alps): age and kinematic constrains on the Ferrière-Mollières shear zone
MUSUMECI, GIOVANNI;
2002-01-01
Abstract
The Argentera Massif in the western Alps is made of up two medium–high-grade metamorphic complexes of Variscan age. They are separated by a regional-scale northwest-trending shear zone, the Ferrière–Mollières Line, which consists of low-grade mylonitic rocks. Muscovite-bearingmylonitic leucogranites crop out as subvertical northwest-trending intrusions, in the northern portion of the shear zone. A Rb/Sr muscovite–wr age of 327±3 Ma on foliated leucogranite gives a lower limit for the age of mylonitic deformation for which kinematic indicators indicate a dextral sense of shear. This strike-slip tectonics is compatible with the extensional regime that occurred during Carboniferous in the whole western EuropeI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.