Geological map of the ultra-high pressure Brossasco-Isasca unit (Western Alps, Italy)

Roberto Compagnoni, Franco Rolfo, Chiara Groppo, Takao Hirajima and Robertino Turello

Journal of Maps, 2012, vol. 8, issue 4, 465-472

Abstract: In the southern Dora-Maira Massif, Western Alps, slivers of continental crust with similar lithologies, but recrystallized during the Alpine orogeny at different peak- P conditions, are exposed. They include the Brossasco-Isasca Unit (BIU) where coesite was first discovered in continental crust. A new 1:20,000-scale geologic map and related cross-sections of the whole BIU and adjoining units is presented, in which the most significant features useful to infer the pre-Alpine history and the Alpine tectonic and metamorphic evolution, are summarized. Thanks to detailed petrography and petrology, the geologic map shows the precise location of ultra-high pressure (UH P ) minerals (such as coesite), and the locations of the most significant mineral assemblages (such as kyanite + jadeite). This innovative approach is used to distinguish the BIU from the adjacent units. Relict pre-Alpine structures (such as igneous intrusive contacts with basement xenoliths and metagranitoids) are summarized in a sketch illustrating the geologic setting of the UH P metamorphic unit as inferred before the Alpine orogeny.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2012.744367

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