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Alba Patrizia Santo, Beatrice Agostini, Carlo Alberto Garzonio, Elena Pecchioni and Teresa Salvatici
Serpentinite is a low-grade metamorphic rock derived from the transformation of ultramafic rocks. Mainly because of its aesthetic characteristics it has been widely used as a building and ornamental stone. ?Verde di Prato? is the most common local name u...
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Michael W. Förster, Yannick Bussweiler, Dejan Prelevic, Nathan R. Daczko, Stephan Buhre, Regina Mertz-Kraus and Stephen F. Foley
Subduction of oceanic crust buries an average thickness of 300?500 m of sediment that eventually dehydrates or partially melts. Progressive release of fluid/melt metasomatizes the fore-arc mantle, forming serpentinite at low temperatures and phlogopite-b...
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Caterina Bianco
Low-grade mylonitic shear zones are commonly characterized by strain partitioning, with alternating low strain protomylonite and high strain mylonite and ultramylonite, where the shearing is most significant. In this paper the capo Castello shear zone is...
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Ikuya Nishio, Tomoaki Morishita, Kristofer Szilas, Graham Pearson, Ken-Ichiro Tani, Akihiro Tamura, Yumiko Harigane and Juan Miguel Guotana
A titanian clinohumite-bearing dunite was recently found in the Ulamertoq ultramafic body within the 3.0 Ga Akia Terrane of southern West Greenland. Titanian clinohumite occurs as disseminated and discrete grains. Titanian clinohumite contains relatively...
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Alessandra Correale, Vittorio Scribano and Antonio Paonita
Ultramafic magmas (MgO = 18 wt%) are generally thought to be primary mantle melts formed at temperatures in excess of 1600 °C. Volatile contents are expected to be low, and accordingly, high-Mg magmas generally do not yield large explosive eruptions. How...
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Paola Tartarotti, Sara Sibil Giuseppina Guerini, Francesca Rotondo, Andrea Festa, Gianni Balestro, Gray E. Bebout, Enrico Cannaò, Gabe S. Epstein and Marco Scambelluri
The primary stratigraphic fabric of a chaotic rock unit in the Zermatt Saas ophiolite of the Western Alps was reworked by a polyphase Alpine tectonic deformation. Multiscalar structural criteria demonstrate that this unit was deformed by two ductile subd...
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Serpentinites are characterized by highly variable mineralogical, physical, and mechanical properties. Serpentinites from Moeche (North Western Spain) have been studied to establish their mineralogical, petrographic, and textural characteristics, as well...
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Vittorio Scribano, Serafina Carbone and Fabio Carmelo Manuella
Interpretation of seismic profiles and results of scientific drillings in the Mediterranean subseafloor provided indication of gigantic salt deposits which rarely crop out on land, such as in Sicily. The salt giants were ascribed to the desiccation, driv...
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Maria Carmela Dichicco, Salvatore Laurita, Rosa Sinisi, Raimondo Battiloro and Giovanna Rizzo
Worldwide studies have been done about the toxicity and carcinogenicity of asbestos minerals occurring in ophiolitic rocks. Inhalation of asbestos due to environmental exposure could cause malignant mesothelioma and lung cancers. In particular, the ophio...
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Andrea Bloise and Domenico Miriello
An innovative and, as yet, untested approach is to analyze serpentinite and metabasite rocks containing asbestos using a portable multi-analytical device, which combines portable digital microscopy (p-DM), portable X-ray Fluorescence (p-XRF) and portable...
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