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- Title
Thermochronological evidence for Mesozoic–Tertiary tectonic evolution in the eastern Sardinia.
- Authors
Zattin, M.; Massari, F.; Dieni, I.
- Abstract
Apatite fission-track analyses on samples from eastern Sardinia document a complex tectonic history, whose reconstruction is problematic because of the reactivation of faults and structures at different times from Jurassic to Miocene. The oldest ages (150–154 Ma) have been detected on the southern margin of the Gulf of Orosei and are related to the extensional tectonics that characterize the European passive margin during Early and Middle Jurassic times. Thermal modelling of these data allows reconstruction of the burial history of the Mesozoic basin and estimation of a sedimentary thickness of 2000 m. Part of these sediments was eroded during the following uplift, documented by mid-Cretaceous fission-track ages. A further exhumation episode of Eocene age has been revealed by fission-track data on granite samples, and has been inferred to be related to the Alpine orogenic phase. This tectonic episode caused the exhumation of crustal blocks bound by faults that were finally reactivated during the Late Oligocene–Early Miocene.
- Subjects
SARDINIA (Italy); ITALY; MIOCENE stratigraphic geology; MIOCENE paleoecology; JURASSIC stratigraphic geology; JURASSIC paleopedology; JURASSIC paleoecology; EOCENE stratigraphic geology; EOCENE paleoclimatology; EOCENE paleopedology
- Publication
Terra Nova, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 6, p469
- ISSN
0954-4879
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00840.x