Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
In eastern Elba Island (Tuscany, Italy), a shallow crustal level felsic, tourmaline-bearing, dyke-sill swarm of Late Miocene age is associated with abundant tourmaline-quartz hydrothermal
veins and metasomatic masses. Development of these veins and masses in the host rocks demonstrates multiple hydro-fracturing by magmatic, boron-rich saline fluid. Tourmalines in felsic dykes are schorl, whereas in veins and metasomatic masses, tourmaline composition ranges from schorl-dravite through dravite to uvite. This compositional shift is evidence for an
increasing contribution to the magmatic boron-rich fluids by a Mg-Ca-Ti-rich external component represented by biotite-rich and amphibolite host rocks. This system can be envisaged as an exposed proxy of the high temperature hydrothermal system presently active in the deepest part of the Larderello-Travale geothermal field (Tuscany).
Description:
Published
Description:
318-326
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3.3. Geodinamica e struttura dell'interno della Terra
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3.5. Geologia e storia dei sistemi vulcanici
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JCR Journal
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reserved
Keywords:
Hydro-fractures
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geothermal systems
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Magmatism
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southern Tuscany
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04. Solid Earth::04.01. Earth Interior::04.01.99. General or miscellaneous
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04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.09. Structural geology
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
