Paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Amynteon–Ptolemaida lignite deposit in northern Greece based on its petrographic composition

Mavridou, E.; Antoniadis, P.; Khanaqa, Polla Azad; Riegel, Walter; Gentzis, Thomas

doi:10.1016/s0166-5162(03)00115-0

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“…1) of Pelagonia were filled with marine colluvialproluvial sediments that show a complex tectonosedimentary history (Roussos, 1994;Ferrière et al, 2004). Late Mioceneto-Pleistocene (post 7 Ma) coal and lacustrine sediments locally covered the Pelagonian zone (Koukouzas et al, 1979;Mavridou et al, 2003;Steenbrink et al, 2006).…”

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Polyphase evolution of Pelagonia (northern Greece) revealed by geological and fission-track data

2015

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Abstract. The Pelagonian zone, situated between the External Hellenides/Cyclades to the west and the Axios/Vardar/Almopias zone (AVAZ) and the Rhodope to the east, was involved in late Early Cretaceous and in Late Cretaceous-Eocene orogenic events whose duration and extent are still controversial. This paper constrains their late thermal imprints. New and previously published zircon (ZFT) and apatite (AFT) fission-track ages show cooling below 240 • C of the metamorphic western AVAZ imbricates between 102 and 93-90 Ma, of northern Pelagonia between 86 and 68 Ma, of the eastern AVAZ at 80 Ma and of the western Rhodope at 72 Ma. At the regional scale, this heterogeneous cooling is coeval with subsidence of Late Cretaceous marine basin(s) that unconformably covered the Early Cretaceous (130-110 Ma) thrust system from 100 Ma. Thrusting resumed at 70 Ma in the AVAZ and migrated across Pelagonia to reach the External Hellenides at 40-38 Ma. Renewed thrusting in Pelagonia is attested at 68 Ma by abrupt and rapid cooling below 240 • C and erosion of the gneissic rocks. ZFT and AFT in western and eastern Pelagonia, respectively, testify at ∼ 40 Ma to the latest thermal imprint related to thrusting. Central-eastern Pelagonia cooled rapidly and uniformly from 240 to 80 • C between 24 and 16 Ma in the footwall of a major extensional fault. Extension started even earlier, at ∼ 33 Ma in the western AVAZ. Post-7 Ma rapid cooling is inferred from inverse modeling of AFT lengths. It occurred while E-W normal faults were cutting Pliocene-torecent sediment.

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Polyphase evolution of Pelagonia (northern Greece) revealed by geological and fission-track data

2015

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“…TPI expressed the degree of humification of the peat forming materials, respectively emphasises the degree of tissue preservation vs. destruction and the type of vegetation [39,85,86,88]. TPI values increased from the value 0.7 in the matrix coal up to 8.6 in liptobiolith 2 (Fig.…”

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Identification of organic matter in lignite samples from basins in the Czech Republic: Geochemical and petrographic properties in relation to lithotype

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Sýkorová

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“…Of great interest are the Neogene strata that host the lignite beds. The age of the Neogene strata is Miocene based on microfossils from the nearby lignite deposit at Lava, or possibly Pliocene-Pleistocene, for the immediately overlying lignites (Abatzi et al, 2005;Antoniadis et al, 2005;Mavridou et al, 2003). Mesozoic-age rocks unconformably underlie these beds as a result of the Alpine Orogeny.…”

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The Notio Pedio (Southern Field) Lignite Deposit in the Ptolemaida Basin, Greece: Depositional Conditions as Revealed through Petrography

Antoniadis

Mavridou

Gentzis³

2005

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Paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Amynteon–Ptolemaida lignite deposit in northern Greece based on its petrographic composition

Cited by 29 publications

References 5 publications

Polyphase evolution of Pelagonia (northern Greece) revealed by geological and fission-track data

Polyphase evolution of Pelagonia (northern Greece) revealed by geological and fission-track data

Identification of organic matter in lignite samples from basins in the Czech Republic: Geochemical and petrographic properties in relation to lithotype

The Notio Pedio (Southern Field) Lignite Deposit in the Ptolemaida Basin, Greece: Depositional Conditions as Revealed through Petrography

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