Publication Date:
2024-03-25
Description:
The Roccamonfina volcano is located within the Garigliano Graben (southern Apennines, Italy) and has been active throughout the Middle-Late Pleistocene. Along its polyphase volcanic history (630–55 ka), including several caldera-forming eruptions (385–230 ka), several effusive/mildly explosive monogenetic events occurred along the volcano slopes, within the summit caldera, and along the graben-bounding carbonate reliefs. In this paper, we present a multidisciplinary study of a mafic magmatic feeder dike intruded within the Meso-Tertiary carbonates and overlying Lower Pleistocene breccias of Mt Cesima, northeast of the Roccamonfina volcano. We performed a stratigraphic and structural survey of the area and petrographic analyses on several samples of the dike. Results indicate that a ∼1 km long fissure fed an eruption that also emplaced a Strombolian pyroclastic sequence. Petrological data show that an open-system mafic recharge fueled the tephritic magma that fed the eruption, whereas no evidence of significant pre/syn-eruptive assimilation of carbonate has been identified. Stratigraphic and petrological data do not allow to firmly constrain the timing of the eruption, which could belong both to the pre-Brown Leucitic Tuff (〉354 ka) and to the post-White Trachytic Tuffs (〈230 ka) epochs of activity of the Roccamonfina volcano. Structural data show that the dike is broadly oriented E-W and changes direction toward NE-SW in correspondence with a pre-existing fault damage zone. We suggest that magma was intruded during an N-S trending extensional event in the Middle Pleistocene, whose prolonged activity resulted in regional uplift and exhumation of regional significance.
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Published
Description:
e2023GC010994
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OSV2: Complessità dei processi vulcanici: approcci multidisciplinari e multiparametrici
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JCR Journal
Keywords:
magmatic dike
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Tectonic extension
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
