The geological signature of a slab tear below the Aegean

Autor(en)
Laurent Jolivet, Armel Menant, Pietro Sternai, Aurélien Rabillard, Laurent Arbaret, Romain Augier, Valentin Laurent, Alexandre Beaudoin, Bernhard Grasemann, Benjamin Huet, Loic Labrousse, Laetitia Le Pourhiet
Abstrakt

In this paper we explore the geology of the Aegean region in the Miocene to identify the geological signature of a first-order slab tear observed in all tomographic models. From 15 to 8. Ma, the tear is associated, spatially and timely, with a fast clockwise rotation of the External Hellenides, alkaline volcanism, high-temperature metamorphic domes with a predominance of north-dipping detachments, and south-westward migration of granitoid intrusions. These features suggest a warmer geodynamic environment during the rotation and the impact of a hot mantle flow associated with the tear. The ~. 8. Ma duration between the first high-temperature metamorphic domes in the centre of the archipelago and the beginning of the fast rotation may correspond to the time needed for the slab to bend, stretch and finally tear.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geologie
Externe Organisation(en)
Université d’Orléans, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO), Université Paris VI - Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Journal
Tectonophysics
Band
659
Seiten
166-182
Anzahl der Seiten
17
ISSN
0040-1951
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.08.004
Publikationsdatum
09-2015
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105106 Geodynamik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/the-geological-signature-of-a-slab-tear-below-the-aegean(58cac2a4-f108-4b03-a7da-38450abe1140).html