First record of Devonian orthoceratid-bearing limestones in southern Calabria (Italy)

Navas‐Parejo, Pilar; Somma, Roberta; Martín‐Algarra, Agustín; Perrone, Vincenzo; Rodríguez-Cañero, Rosario

doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2009.01.001

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“…The uppermost crustal portion is comprised of two different complexes separated by a lowangle tectonic detachment: a lower-grade hanging wall complex and a higher-grade footwall complex (Stilo-Pazzano complex and Mammola complex, respectively). The Stilo-Pazzano complex consists of low greenschist-facies phyllites with minor marbles, quartzites and metavolcanic levels with protolith ages up to Early Carboniferous (e.g., Acquafredda et al, 1994;Navas-Parejo et al, 2009). The Mammola complex comprises dominant amphibolite-facies paragneisses and subordinate leucocratic gneisses and amphibolites.…”

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“…It should be pointed out that weakly metamorphosed Paleozoic volcano-sedimentary sequences, ending with Carboniferous synorogenic flysch deposits, make up the StiloPazzano complex in the Serre upper crust (e.g., Navas-Parejo et al, 2009); furthermore, volcanic products with island-arc affinity occur in the youngest levels (e.g., Acquafredda et al, 1994). No information exists about the protoliths of the amphibolite-facies rocks of the associated Mammola complex, which could represent higher-grade counterparts of the same volcano-sedimentary successions.…”

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Source-inherited compositional diversity in granite batholiths: The geochemical message of Late Paleozoic intrusive magmatism in central Calabria (southern Italy)

Fiannacca

Cirrincione

Bonanno

et al. 2015

Lithos

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Source-inherited compositional diversity in granite batholiths: The geochemical message of Late Paleozoic intrusive magmatism in central Calabria (southern Italy)

Fiannacca

Cirrincione

Bonanno

et al. 2015

Lithos

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“…Analogously, the petrographic characteristics of the building stones made of Miocene to Pleistocene sedimentary rocks were similar to those of outcropping formations along the Messina town hills [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] (figure 2).…”

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Provenance studies applied to building stones of a Bronze age tholos tomb (Messina, Italy)

Somma¹

2023

Proceedings of the 2022 IMEKO TC4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

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During the Bronze Age, essential advances occurred in the field of architecture. Roundhouses and tombs with circular stone walls appeared. The present research aims to geolocate the sources of raw building materials used by workmen during the Bronze age to construct a Mycenean-type tholos tomb discovered in the alluvial plain of the Messina Ionian slope (Fiumara Gazzi). The used method has foreseen the geological, sedimentological, structural, mineralogical, and petrographic mesoscopic analyses of the tomb's building stones to compare them with the rock features of the surrounding geological outcrops of the Peloritani Mountains. The studied building stones consist of metamorphic, magmatic, and sedimentary rocks. Crystalline building stones are mostly wellrounded alluvial pebbles and boulders; most sedimentary stones are characterized by hand-made well-squared shapes with a minor amount of alluvial pebbles. Studies on the provenance of the alluvial pebbles and boulders of crystalline and sedimentary rocks indicated that they derived, respectively, from the highest and intermediate zones of the northern end of the Peloritani Mountains, where the crystalline rocks (Aspromonte and the Mela Units) and the Tertiary to Quaternary sedimentary covers are respectively in tectonic contact because of a normal fault of the Messina Straits tectonic system. The sedimentary hand-made building stones are derived from local quarries in the surrounding areas, near San Filippo, where the well-bedded bioclastic calcareous rudstones and grainstones are well exposed and visible at a distance.

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“…The metapelitic succession, with decreasing metamorphic degree upwards, includes limestone horizons bearing Palaeozoic fossils (Acquafredda et al 1994). Lower Devonian metalimestone lenses bearing orthoceratids and conodonts represent the oldest dated layers in the Stilo basement (Navas-Parejo et al 2009). Younger Devonian beds, formed by laterally discontinuous and usually grey limestone containing dacryoconarids (Afchain 1970) and conodonts (de Capoa-Bonardi 1970;Gelmini et al 1979;Bouillin et al 1987).…”

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The Frasnian Upper Kellwasser event and a lower Famennian stratigraphic gap in Calabria (southern Italy)

Navas‐Parejo

Rodríguez-Cañero

Somma

et al. 2009

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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The identification of three late Frasnian conodont biozones , as defined in the Montagne Noire, France) and of several Famennian conodont biozones (Early, Late, and Latest marginifera, and Late postera zones of the standard zonation) in the Palaeozoic record of the Stilo Unit (southern Calabria, southern Italy) indicates the existence of a stratigraphic gap during the early Famennian (triangularis, crepida and rhomboidea zones). In the studied section, this gap occurs above a thin, black, pelitic horizon that appears just on top of the uppermost sample dated as late Frasnian. The conodonts obtained from the beds underlying this black horizon are all highly pyritized, unlike the few Famennian conodonts found in the limestone bed immediately overlying this horizon, which is richer in organic matter. Both stratigraphic features (the black pelitic horizon and the gap in the conodont record) are interpreted as being related to the Upper Kellwasser Anoxic Event. These new data indicate that this important biotic crisis was also evident in the pelagic environments of the Palaeozoic succession of the Stilo Unit at the very end of the Frasnian.

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First record of Devonian orthoceratid-bearing limestones in southern Calabria (Italy)

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Source-inherited compositional diversity in granite batholiths: The geochemical message of Late Paleozoic intrusive magmatism in central Calabria (southern Italy)

Source-inherited compositional diversity in granite batholiths: The geochemical message of Late Paleozoic intrusive magmatism in central Calabria (southern Italy)

Provenance studies applied to building stones of a Bronze age tholos tomb (Messina, Italy)

The Frasnian Upper Kellwasser event and a lower Famennian stratigraphic gap in Calabria (southern Italy)

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