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From obduction to continental collision: new data from Central Greece

Part of: Birth and Death of Oceanic Basins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2018

GIUSEPPE NIRTA ,
GIOVANNA MORATTI ,
LUIGI PICCARDI ,
DOMENICO MONTANARI ,
NICOLAOS CARRAS ,
RITA CATANZARITI ,
MARCO CHIARI  and
MARTA MARCUCCI
GIUSEPPE NIRTA*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
GIOVANNA MORATTI
Affiliation:
C.N.R., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, U.O di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
LUIGI PICCARDI
Affiliation:
C.N.R., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, U.O di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
DOMENICO MONTANARI
Affiliation:
C.N.R., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, U.O di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
NICOLAOS CARRAS
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration (IGME), Spirou Loui 1, 13677 Acharnes, Greece
RITA CATANZARITI
Affiliation:
C.N.R., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
MARCO CHIARI
Affiliation:
C.N.R., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, U.O di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
MARTA MARCUCCI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121, Firenze, Italy
*
†Author for correspondence: giuseppe.nirta@gmail.com
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to contribute to deciphering the evolutionary history of the Hellenides by the study of a large sector of the chain located between the front of the ophiolitic units and the external zones classically attributed to the continental margin of Adria. In particular, the tectonic units located in Boeotia – a key area located in Central Greece at the boundary between the Internal and External Hellenides – were studied from structural, stratigraphic and biostratigraphic points of view. Addressing the main debated aspects concerning the origin of the ophiolite nappe(s), the tectonic evolution of the Hellenic orogen was revised with a particular emphasis on the period between obduction and continental collision. New findings were compared with consolidated data concerning the main metamorphic events recorded in the more Internal Hellenides, geochemistry and age of the ophiolites and main stratigraphic constraints obtained in other sectors of the belt. Finally, a new reconstruction of the tectonic evolution of this area was introduced and, in the context of the dispute concerning the origin of the ‘ophiolitic belts’ as a possible record of multiple oceanic basins, we put forward for consideration a ‘single ocean’ tectonic model spanning from Triassic up to Tertiary times, and valid for the whole Hellenic–Albanian sector.

Keywords

Hellenic–Dinaric orogenstructural geologystratigraphybiostratigraphyophioliteBoeotiaGreece
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Geological Magazine , Volume 155 , Issue 2: THEMATIC ISSUE: Birth and Death of Oceanic Basins , February 2018 , pp. 377 - 421
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