Late-Hercynian, high temperature (HT) shear deformation affected the zone straddling the contact between the Sila Massif batholith (above) and the host migmatitic paragneisses (below). A segment of the regional HT shear zone was investigated close to the town of Mesoraca, where a natural section allows one to analyse the solidus deformation of syn-tectonic granitoids. Shearing favoured the formation of polycrystalline quartz ribbons in deformed granodiorite and tonalite. Two main c-axis fabrics were found in the quartz-ribbons, different from each other by opening angles around Z between strong point maxima, in accordance with deformation under granulite to amphibolite facies conditions. These fabrics, along with microstructural observations, suggest that temperature of deformation played a key role and that ribboning was accompanied by the activation of (i) prism [c] slip and prism [c] + prism < a > slips, under granulite facies conditions, followed by (ii) basal < a > and prism < a > slips under amphibolite facies conditions.
C-axis fabrics of quartz-ribbons during high-temperature deformation of syn-tectonic granitoids (Sila Massif, Calabria, Italy) / Festa, Vincenzo. - In: COMPTES RENDUS. GÉOSCIENCE. - ISSN 1631-0713. - 341(2009), pp. 557-567.
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Titolo: | C-axis fabrics of quartz-ribbons during high-temperature deformation of syn-tectonic granitoids (Sila Massif, Calabria, Italy) |
Autori: | FESTA, VINCENZO (Corresponding) |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2009 |
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Citazione: | C-axis fabrics of quartz-ribbons during high-temperature deformation of syn-tectonic granitoids (Sila Massif, Calabria, Italy) / Festa, Vincenzo. - In: COMPTES RENDUS. GÉOSCIENCE. - ISSN 1631-0713. - 341(2009), pp. 557-567. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11586/15443 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |