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Tectonic setting of the carbonatite-melilitite association of Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

G. Lavecchia  and
P. Boncio
G. Lavecchia*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Geodinamica e Sismogenesi, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, 66013 Chieti Scalo, Italy
P. Boncio
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Geodinamica e Sismogenesi, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, 66013 Chieti Scalo, Italy
*
*E-mail: glavecchia@unich.it
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Abstract

In this paper the Late Pleistocene carbonatite-melilitite association (CMA) of Italy is evaluated in terms of the Plio-Quaternary extensional structures in the crust and mantle lithosphere. In particular, we briefly discuss the geometry and stress field of the host geological structures, the tectonic control on the eruptive style, the thickness and composition of the lithosphere. Some implications for a passive rift geodynamic environment are also considered.

Keywords

carbonatite-melilititeextensional tectonicsgeodynamicslithosphere-asthenosphere boundaryriftingTyrrhenian-Apennines system
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 583 - 592
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2000

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