• Substantial mafic to ultramafic layered igneous bodies occur in the Matterhorn (Cervino) and Mt....
  • Mont Morion granite, Becca d’Epicoune, Mont Collon and Cervino gabbros Fig. 2, and in the M....
  • We would like also to warmly thank Giorgio Vittorio Dal Piaz for providing us with the first proofs of the Cervino geological map, for discussions in Cogne and Cervinia and for visiting us in the field in the company of L....
  • Le Cervin est-il africain?...
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Permian magmatism and metamorphism in the Dent Blanche nappe: constraints from field observations and geochronology

Manzotti, Paola ; Rubatto, Daniela ; Zucali, Michele ; El Korh, Afifé ; Cenki-Tok, Bénédicte ; Ballèvre, Michel ; Engi, Martin

In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2018, vol. 111, no. 1–2, p. 79–97

In the Dent Blanche Tectonic System, the Mont Morion biotite-bearing granite is a km- scale intrusion preserved in a low-strain volume. Zircon saturation thermometry suggests that it crystallised from a melt that reached about 800 °C. U–Pb zircon and allanite geochronology indicates crystallization of the magma in the Permian (290 ± 3 Ma; 280 ± 8 Ma, respectively). Migmatitic...

  • Permian ages have been determined for the Mont Collon and Cervino gabbros (284 ± 1 Ma, U/Pb on zircon; Monjoie et al. 2005; 250 ± 5 Ma, K/Ar and Rb/Sr methods, Dal Piaz et al. 1977), as well as for a greenish orthogneiss sampled south of the Matterhorn (289 ± 2 Ma, U/Pb on zircon, Bussy et al. 1998)....
  • The DBTS is made of the Dent Blanche (DB) and the Mont Mary-Cervino (MM) nappes (Fig. 1) that are separated by the Roisan-Cignana Shear Zone (RCSZ), an Alpine km-scale high strain zone (Manzotti 2011; Manzotti et al. 2014b)....
  • Foglio 070, Cervino....