Article Dans Une Revue Comptes Rendus. Géoscience Année : 2025

Tectonic underplating at intermediate depths in subduction zones: structural and geochronological evidence preserved in Corsican ophiolites

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Peridotites from two ophiolitic units of Alpine Corsica show outcrop-scale reverse faults whose dip angles follow a bimodal distribution (weak vs. steep angles). These faults are outlined by pseudotachylyte or cataclasite, and formed concurrently at 35–70 km depths, during the subduction of the Piemonte-Ligurian oceanic lithosphere beneath Apulia in Cretaceous to Eocene times. 40Ar/39Ar dating of pseudotachylyte indicates a 38.1 Ma age of formation. The faults are interpreted as reflecting, at the outcrop-scale, similar structures formed during the propagation, along the subduction interface, of map-scale flats and ramps delimiting duplex-like thrust sheets eventually incorporated by underplating to the upper plate.

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hal-05122213 , version 1 (20-06-2025)

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Rémi Magott, Olivier Fabbri, Patrick Monié, Marc Fournier. Tectonic underplating at intermediate depths in subduction zones: structural and geochronological evidence preserved in Corsican ophiolites. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 2025, 357, pp.185-199. ⟨10.5802/crgeos.293⟩. ⟨hal-05122213⟩
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