The Moglio-Testico Unit (Ligurian Alps, Italy) as Subducted Metamorphic Oceanic Fragment: Stratigraphic, Structural and Metamorphic Constraints

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Along the Western Alps, the oceanic units showing blueschists to eclogite facies metamorphic imprint are classically regarded as fragments of the Ligurian-Piedmont Ocean. These units recorded a strongly deformation related to their subduction, accretion and subsequent exhumation into the Alpine wedge, developed during the convergence between the Europa and Adria Plates. However, some of these units, for example the Moglio-Testico Unit, are less pervasively deformed, providing evidence of their sedimentary evolution as well as the tectono-metamorphic history. Therefore, we present original stratigraphic, structural and thermo-barometric data to characterize the tectono-metamorphic history and the sedimentary evolution of the Moglio-Testico Unit, performing different techniques including fieldwork, structural analysis and chlorite-phengite multiequilibrium thermobarometry. Our dataset indicates that the Moglio-Testico Unit can be considered as a fragment of oceanic cover whose sedimentary evolution reflects that of a portion of oceanic lithosphere approaching to the subduction zone. Structural analysis combined with the thermobarometry indicate that this unit recorded a polyphase deformation history developed under High Pressure-Low Temperature metamorphic conditions (D1: 1.2–1.0 GPa and Tpeak: 330–260 °C; D2: 0.4–0.7 GPa and 230–170 °C) during its underthrusting, accretion into the Alpine wedge and subsequent exhumation up to the shallower crustal levels.

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Sanità, E., Di Rosa, M., Lardeaux, J. M., Marroni, M., & Pandolfi, L. (2022). The Moglio-Testico Unit (Ligurian Alps, Italy) as Subducted Metamorphic Oceanic Fragment: Stratigraphic, Structural and Metamorphic Constraints. Minerals, 12(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/min12111343

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