Petrogenesis and evolution of Mt. Vulture alkaline volcanism (Southern Italy) |
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| Authors: | L Beccaluva M Coltorti P Di Girolamo L Melluso L Milani V Morra F Siena |
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| Institution: | (1) Istituto di Mineralogia, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, IT;(2) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy, IT |
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| Abstract: | Summary The Late Pleistocene Mt. Vulture strato-volcano developed at the intersection of NE-SW and NW-SE lithospheric fault systems,
on the easternmost border of the Apennine compressional front overthrust onto the Apulian foreland. The initial phase of the
volcanic activity is represented by pyroclastic deposits, including lava blocks, and subordinate eccentric domes, mostly phonolitic
in composition. The later stages of activity formed the bulk of the strato-volcano (pyroclastic products and subordinate lavas),
mostly tephritic in composition, with minor intercalations of basanite, mela-foidite and melilitite lavas and dikes.
Variations in rock and mineral composition suggest that the volumetrically predominant basanite-tephrite (foidite)-phonotephrite-phonolite
series can be accounted for by fractional crystallization processes starting from basanitic parental magmas, in agreement
with the remarkably constant 87Sr/86Sr isotopes (0.70586–0.70581). Mass-balance calculations indicate that the variably differentiated magmas may have been produced
by removal of wehrlite, clinopyroxenite and syenite cumulates, some of which are occasionally found as cognate xenoliths in
the volcanics. Fractionation processes probably developed in multiple-zoned magma chambers, at depths of 3–5 km, corresponding
to the tectonic discontinuity between the allochthonous Apennine formations and the underlying Apulian platform. Highly differentiated
phonolitic magmas capping the magma chambers and their conduits thus appear to have fed the initial volcanic activity, whereas
dominantly tephritic products were erupted in later stages.
The least evolved mafic magmas, namely basanites, mela-foidites and melilitites, are characterized by diverse Na/K ratios
and critical SiO2-undersaturation, which indicate their derivation as independent melts generated from distinct, heterogeneously enriched mantle
sources and by variable partial melting degrees.
Primitive mantle-normalized incompatible element patterns of Vulture mafic lavas invariably share analogies with both orogenic
subduction-related magmas (high Low Field Strength Elements/High Field Strength Elements ratios, K, Rb and Th contents and
marked Ti and Nb negative anomalies) and alkaline lavas from within-plate and rift settings (high Light Rare Earth Elements,
P, Zr, Nb and Na). These geochemical features may be accounted for by magma generation from deep lithospheric mantle sources,
enriched in Na-alkali silicate/carbonatite anorogenic components, subsequently affected by orogenic subduction-related K-metasomatism,
analogous to that which modified magma sources of the Roman Magmatic Province along the internal Apennine Chain.
Received April 12, 2000; revised version accepted June 7, 2001 |
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