Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

The Upper Miocene magmatism of the Island of Elba (Central Italy): compositional characteristics, petrogenesis and implications for the origin of the Tuscany Magmatic Province

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Mineralogy and Petrology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Late Miocene intrusive magmatism of the Island of Elba, Tuscany (central Italy), consists of stocks, laccoliths, sills, and dikes showing dominant monzogranite and granodiorite compositions, with minor leucogranitic dike-sill complexes, aplites and pegmatites. A few mafic rocks occur as dikes, and as microgranular enclaves hosted inside the main intrusions. The Elba magmatism belongs to the Tuscan Magmatic Province, an 8.5 to 0.3 Ma old association of mafic to felsic rocks, of mantle and crustal origin, cropping out in Tuscany and northern Latium. Major and trace element abundances of Elba rocks are extremely variable, testifying to complex origin and evolutionary history for magmas. 87Sr/86Sr (~ 0.708-0.723) and 143Nd/144Nd (~0.5121-0.5124) are close or within the field of upper continental crust, with mafic dikes showing the lowest Sr- and the highest Nd-isotope ratios. Petrological, geochemical and textural data of Elba igneous rocks are better explained by invoking a leading role for multiple mixing processes between crust-derived felsic magmas and mafic-intermediate melts of ultimate mantle origin, accompanied by fractional crystallisation. Proxies of crustal anatectic melts are represented by some highly radiogenic-Sr rocks from northern Monte Capanne pluton. Crustal magmas were formed by melting of sedimentary rocks, likely metagreywakes, at pressures exceeding 0.3 GPa. Mafic-intermediate magmas have calcalkaline to shoshonitic compositions and originated in an anomalous mantle, moderately contaminated by siliceous sediments. Selective enrichments in Sr, Ba and LREE are shown by some intermediate rocks (Orano dikes), revealing the occurrence of a distinct magma type at Elba. Similar compositions are also observed at Capraia island, San Vincenzo and Campiglia (southern Tuscany), suggesting a regional relevance for this magma type. Sr-Ba-LREE-rich rocks do not show obvious genetic relationships with other Tuscany magmas and may represent a distinct end-member whose origin deserves further studies to be understood. Petrogenetic processes occurred at Elba allow a better understanding of magma genesis at the regional scale. Some of the first-order petrological characteristics of the Tuscany Magmatic Province are comprised inside the space defined by three main end-member compositions, represented by acidic peraluminous rocks, calcalkaline-shoshonitic basalts, and mafic ultrapotassic lamproites. Mixing of various proportions of end-members generated a wide spectrum of hybrid compositions. These, in turn, were affected by evolution processes, such as fractional crystallisation and crustal assimilation, further complicating the petrological puzzle of the Tuscany Magmatic Province. The lamproitic and calcalkaline magmas were respectively generated by melting of phlogopite-bearing harzburgitic and lherzolitic mantle rocks, which were contaminated by subducted upper crustal siliceous materials. Lithospheric mantle contamination occurred during the Eocene, forming harzburgite-sediment mélange bodies. These were dismembered by ascent of lherzolitic asthenosphere behind the eastward migrating Northern Apennine subduction front, during Miocene to Quaternary backarc extension. Asthenospheric upwelling generated an increase in temperature, dehydration and melting of dispersed harburgite-sediment mélange megaliths, with release of fluids that contaminated the surrounding newly emplaced lherzolites. Melting of such a heterogeneous mantle gave the wide range of mafic magmas observed in Tuscany. Backarc mantle doming and uprise of hot mafic magmas prompted anatexis within the continental crust of the overriding plate.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Fig. 12

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Avanzinelli R, Lustrino M, Mattei M, Melluso L, Conticelli S (2009) Potassic and ultrapotassic magmatism in the circum-Tyrrhenian region: the role of carbonated pelitic vs. pelitic sediment recycling at destructive plate margin. Lithos 113:213–227

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bakker RJ, Schilli SE (2016) Formation conditions of leucogranite dykes and aplite-pegmatite dykes in the eastern Mt. Capanne plutonic complex (Elba, Italy): fluid inclusion studies in quartz, tourmaline, andalusite and plagioclase. Mineral Petrol in press, doi:10.1007/s00710-015-0417-z

  • Barbarin B (1990) Granitoids: main petrogenetic classification in relation to origin and tectonic setting. Geol J 25:227–238

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barberi F, Innocenti F, Ricci CA (1971) La Toscana Meridionale. Il magmatismo. Rend Soc Ital Mineral Petrol 27:169–210

    Google Scholar 

  • Bergman SC (1987) Lamproites and other potassium-rich igneous rocks: a review of their occurrences, mineralogy and geochemistry. In: Fitton JG, Upton BGJ (eds) Alkaline Igneous rocks, Geological Society of London special publication No, vol 30, pp. 103–119

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussy F (1990) Petrogenese des enclaves microgrenues associées aux granitoides calco-alcalins: exemples des massifs varisques du Mont-Blanc (Alpes occidentales) et Miocene du Monte Capanne (Ile d’Elbe, Italie). Dissertation, Memoire de Geologie (No. 7), Lausanne, Switzerland 309 pp

  • Buttinelli M, Chiarabba C, Anselmi M, Bianchi I, De Rita D, Quattrocchi F (2014) Crustal structure of Northern Latium (central Italy) from receiver functions analysis: New evidences of a post-collisional back-arc margin evolution. Tectonophysics 621:148–158

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carminati E, Lustrino M, Cuffaro M, Doglioni C (2010) Tectonics, magmatism and geodynamics of Italy: What we know and what we imagine. In: Beltrando M, Peccerillo A, Mattei M, Conticelli S, Doglioni C (eds) J Virtual Explorer 36, paper 9

  • Castro A, Gerya TV (2008) Magmatic implications of mantle wedge plumes: Experimental study. Lithos 103:103–148

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Castro A, Gerya T, Garci-Casco A, Fernandez C, J. D-A, Moreno-Ventas I, Löw I (2010) Melting relations of MORB-sediment mélanges in underplated mantle wedge plumes; implications for the origin of Cordilleran-type batholiths. J Petrol 51:1267–1295

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cheng Y, Spandler C, Mao J, Rusk BG (2012) Granite, gabbro and mafic microgranular enclaves in the Gejiu area, Yunnan Province, China: a case of two-stage mixing of crust- and mantle-derived magmas. Contrib Mineral Petrol 164:659–676

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Civetta L, Orsi G, Scandone P, Pece R (1978) Eastwards migration of the Tuscan anatectic magmatism due to anticlockwise rotation of the Apennines. Nature 276:604–606

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conceiçao RV, Green DH (2004) Derivation of potassic (shoshonitic) magmas by decompression melting of phlogopite+pargasite lherzolite. Lithos 72:209–229

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Condamine P, Médard E (2014) Experimental melting of phlogopite-bearin mantle at 1GPa: Implications for potassic magmatism. Earth Planet Sci Letters 397:80–92

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conticelli S, Peccerillo A (1992) Petrology and geochemistry of potassic and ultrapotassic volcanism in Central Italy: petrogenesis and inferences on the evolution of the mantle sources. Lithos 28:221–240

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conticelli S, Bortolotti V, Principi G, Laurenzi M, Vaggelli G, D'Antonio M (2001) Petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry of a mafic dyke from Monte Castello, Elba Island, Italy. Ofioliti 26:249–262

    Google Scholar 

  • Conticelli S, Guarnieri L, Farinelli A, Mattei M, Avanzinelli R, Bianchini G, Boari E, Tommasini S, Tiepolo M, Prelévic D, Venturelli G (2009) Trace elements and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopes of K-rich to shoshonitic and calc-alkalic magmatism of the Western Mediterranean region: genesis of ultrapotassic to calc-alkalic magmatic associations in post-collisional geodynamic setting. Lithos 107:68–92

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Conticelli S, Laurenzi MA, Giordano G, Mattei M, Avanzinelli R, Melluso L, Tommasini S, Boari E, Cifelli F, Perini G (2010) Leucite-bearing (kamafugitic/leucititic) and -free (lamproitic) ultrapotassic rocks and associated shoshonites from Italy: constraints on petrogenesis and geodynamics. In: Beltrando M, Peccerillo A, Mattei M, Conticelli S, Doglioni C (eds) The Geology of Italy: tectonics and life along plate margins. J Virtual Explorer 36, paper 20

  • Conticelli S, Avanzinelli R, Poli G, Braschi E, Giordano G (2013) Shift from lamproite-like to leucititic rocks: Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data from the Monte Cimino volcanic complex vs. the Vico stratovolcano, Central Italy. Chem Geol 353:246–266

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cox RA, Dempster TJ, Bell BR, Rogers G (1996) Crystallization of the Shap granite: evidence from zoned K-feldspar megacrysts. J Geol Soc 153:625–635

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Crank J (1975) The Mathematics of Diffusion. Clarendon, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • De Campos CP, Dingwell DB, Perugini D, Civetta L, Fehr TK (2008) Heterogeneities in Magma Chambers: insights from the behavior of major and minor elements during mixing experiments with natural alkaline melts. Chem Geol 256:131–145

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Campos CP, Perugini D, Ertel-Ingrisch W, Dingwell DB, Poli G (2011) Enhancement of magma mixing efficiency by chaotic dynamics: an experimental study. Contrib Mineral Petr 161:863–881

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deino A, Keller JVA, Minelli G, Pialli G (1992) Datazioni 40Ar/39Ar del metamorfismo dell'unità di Ortano - Rio Marina (Isola d'Elba): risultati preliminari. Studi Geologici Camerti 1992(2):187–192

  • Dini A, Laurenzi MA (1999) 40Ar/39Ar chronology of shallow-level granitic intrusions, Elba Island, Italy. In: Geoitalia, second Forum FIST 1999, Bellaria 20–23 September 1999, Abstr vol, pp 288–290

  • Dini A, Innocenti F, Rocchi S, Tonarini S, Westerman DS (2002) The magmatic evolution of the late Miocene laccolith–pluton–dyke granitic complex of Elba Island, Italy. Geol Mag 139:257–279

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dini A, Rocchi S, Westerman DS (2004) Reaction microtextures of REE–Y–Th–U accessory minerals in the Monte Capanne pluton (Elba Island, Italy): a possible indicator of hybridization processes. Lithos 78:101–118

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dini A, Gianelli G, Puxeddu M, Ruggieri G (2005) Origin and evolution of Pliocene–Pleistocene granites from the Larderello geothermal field (Tuscan Magmatic Province, Italy). Lithos 81:1–31

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dini A, Westerman DS, Innocenti F, Rocchi S (2008) Magma emplacement in a transfer zone: the Miocene mafic Orano dyke swarm of Elba Island (Tuscany). In: Thomson K, Petford N (eds) Structure and Emplacement of High-level Magmatic Systems Geol Soc London. Spec Publ 302:131–148

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dini A, Rocchi S, Westerman DS, Farina F (2009) The late Miocene intrusive complex of Elba Island: two centuries of studies from Savi to Innocenti. Acta Volcanologica 20(21):11–32

    Google Scholar 

  • Doglioni C, Harabaglia P, Merlini S, Mongelli F, Peccerillo A, Piromallo C (1999) Orogens and slabs vs. their direction of subduction. Earth-Sci Rev 45:167–208

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Elburg MA (1996a) Evidence of isotopic equilibration between microgranitoid enclaves and host granodiorite, Warburton Granodiorite, Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia. Lithos 38:1–22

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Elburg MA (1996b) Genetic significance of multiple enclave types in a peraluminous ignimbrite suite, Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia. J Petrol 37:1385–1408

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Farina F, Stevens G, Dini A, Rocchi S (2012) Peritectic phase entrainment and magma mixing in the late Miocene Elba Island laccolith-pluton-dyke complex (Italy). Lithos 153:243–260

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Farina F, Dini A, Rocchi S, Stevens G (2014) Extreme mineral-scale Sr isotope heterogeneity in granites by disequilibrium melting of the crust. Earth Planet Sc Lett 399:103–115

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferrara G, Petrini R, Serri G, Tonarini S (1989) Petrology and isotope-geochemistry of San Vincenzo rhyolites (Tuscany, Italy). B Volcanol 51:379–388

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Flinders J, Clemens JD (1996) Non-linear dynamics, chaos, complexity and enclaves in granitoid magmas. Trans R Soc Edinburgh Earth Sci 87:225–232

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foley SF, Venturelli G, Green DH, Toscani L (1987) The ultrapotassic rocks: characteristics classification, and constraints for petrogenetic models. Earth-Sci Rev 24:81–134

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fourcade S, Allègre CJ (1981) Trace element behaviour in granitic genesis: a case study, the calcalkaline plutonic association from the Querigut Complex, Pyrénées, France. Contrib Mineral Petr 76:177–195

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frezzotti ML, Peccerillo A, Panza G (2009) Carbonate metasomatism and CO2 lithosphere–asthenosphere degassing beneath the Western Mediterranean: An integrated model arising from petrological and geophysical data. Chem Geol 262:108–120

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gagnevin D (2005) Mineral- and whole-rock investigation of granite petrogenesis in a young plutonic system: the Monte Capanne pluton. Dissertation, University College, Dublin 281pp

  • Gagnevin D, Daly JS, Poli G (2004) Petrographic geochemical and isotopic constraints on magma dynamics and mixing in the Miocene Monte Capanne monzogranite (Elba Island, Italy). Lithos 78:157–195

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gagnevin D, Daly JS, Waight TE, Morgan D, Poli G (2005a) Pb isotopic zoning of K-feldspar megacrysts determined by laser ablation multi-collector ICP-MS: insights into granite petrogenesis. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 69:1899–1915

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gagnevin D, Daly JS, Poli G, Morgan D (2005b) Microchemical and Sr isotopic investigation of zoned K-feldspar Megacrysts: insights into the petrogenesis of a granitic system and disequilibrium crystal growth. J Petrol 46:1689–1724

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gagnevin D, Daly JS, Poli G (2008) Insights into granite petrogenesis from quantitative assessment of the field distribution of enclaves, xenoliths and K-feldspar megacrysts in the Monte Capanne pluton, Italy. Mineral Mag 72:925–940

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gagnevin D, Daly JS, Kronz A (2010) Zircon texture and chemical composition as a guide to magmatic processes and mixing in a granitic environment and coeval volcanic system. Contrib Mineral Petr 159:579–596

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gagnevin D, Daly SJ, Horstwood MSA, Whitehouse MJ (2011) In-situ zircon U–Pb, oxygen and hafnium isotopic evidence for magma mixing and mantle metasomatism in the Tuscan Magmatic Province, Italy. Earth Planet Sc Lett 305:45–56

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Garfagnoli F, Menna F, Pandeli E, Principi G (2005) The Porto Azzurro Unit (Mt. Calamita promontory, south-eastern Elba Island, Tuscany): stratigraphic, tectonic and metamorphic evolution. Boll Soc Geol Ital. Vol Spec 3:119–138

    Google Scholar 

  • Giletti BJ, Casserly JED (1994) Strontium diffusion kinetics in plagioclase feldspars. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 58:3785–3793

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Glazner AF, Johnson BR (2013) Late crystallization of K-feldspar and the paradox of megacrystic granites. Contrib Mineral Petr 166:777–799

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Haskin LA, Frey FA, Schmitt RA, Smith RH (1966) Meteoric, solar and terrestrial rare Earth distributions. Phys Chem Earth 7:162–132

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hibbard MJ (1965) Origin of some alkali feldspar phenocrysts and their bearing on petrogenesis. Am J Sci 263:245–261

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Innocenti F, Serri G, Nanetti P, Ferrara G, Tonarini S (1999) Genesis and classification of the rocks of the Tuscan Magmatic Province: Thirty years after the Marinelli's model. Acta Volcanologica 2:247--265

  • Keller JVA, Pialli G (1990) Tectonics of the Island of Elba: a reappraisal. Boll Soc Geol Ital 109:413–425

    Google Scholar 

  • Le Maitre RW (2002) A Classification of igneous rocks and glossary of terms. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Lowery Claiborne L, Miller CF, Walker BA, Wooden JL, Mazdab FK, Bea F (2006) Tracking magmatic processes through Zr/Hf ratios in rocks and Hf and Ti zoning in zircons: an example from the Spirit Mountain batholith, Nevada. Mineral Mag 70:517–543

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maineri C, Benvenuti M, Costagliola P, Dini A, Lattanzi P, Ruggieri C, Villa IM (2003) Sericitic alteration at the La Crocetta mine (Elba Island, Italy): interplay between magmatism, tectonics, and hydrothermal actvity. Miner Deposita 38:67–86

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marinelli G (1955) Le rocce porfiriche dell'Isola d'Elba. Atti Soc Toscana Sci Nat Pisa, Mem, Ser A 62(2):269-418

  • Marinelli G (1959) Le intrusioni terziare dell'isola d'Elba. Atti Soc Toscana Sci Nat Pisa, Mem, Ser A LXVI(I):50-253

  • Marschall HR, Schumacher JC (2012) Arc magmas sourced from mélange diapirs in subduction zones. Nat Geosci 5:862–867

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Martin LHJ, Schmidt MW, Mattsson HB, Ulmer P, Hametner K, Günther D (2012) Element partitioning between immiscible carbonatite–kamafugite melts with application to the Italian ultrapotassic suite. Chem Geol 320-321:96–112

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller CF, McDowell SM, Mapes RW (2003) Hot and cold granites? Implications of zircon saturation temperatures and preservation of inheritance. Geology 31:529–532

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller JS, Matzel JEP, Miller CF, Burgess SD, Miller RB (2007) Zircon growth and recycling during the assembly of large, composite arc plutons. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 167:282–299

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mitchell RH, Bergman SC (1991) Petrology of lamproites. Plenum, New York

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Morgavi D, Perugini D, De Campos C, Ertl-Ingrisch W, Lavallée Y, Morgan L, Dingwell DB (2013) Interactions between rhyolitic and basaltic melts unraveled by chaotic mixing experiments. Chem Geol 346:199–212

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ottino JM (1989a) The mixing of fluids. Scientific American 260:56–67

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ottino JM (1989b) The Kinematics of Mixing: Stretching, Chaos and Transport. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Pandeli E, Santo AP, Morelli M, Orti L (2006) Petrological and geochemical data of porphyritic dykes from the Capo Arco Area (Eastern Elba Island, Northern Tyrrhenian Sea). Period Mineral LXXV 241-254

  • Pandeli E, Bartolini C, Dini A, Antolini E (2010) New data on the paleogeography of Southern Tuscany (Italy) since Late Miocene time. Int J Earth Sci 99:1357–1381

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pandeli E, Santo AP, Candido MR, Petrone CM, Giusti G (2014) The calcalkaline Monte Capo Stella dykes in the ophiolitic unit of the Elba island (Italy): geological setting and compositional characterization. Ofioliti 39:79–93

    Google Scholar 

  • Paterson S (2009) Magmatic tubes, pipes, troughs, diapirs, and plumes: late-stage convective instabilities resulting in compositional diversity and permeable networks in crystal rich magmas of the Tuolumne Batholith, Sierra Nevada, California. Geosphere 5:496–527

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Patino Douce AE (1999) What do experiments tell us about the relative contribution of crust and mantle to the origin of granitic magmas? In: Castro A, Fernández C, Vigneresse JL (eds) Understanding granites: Integrating new and classical techniques. Geol Soc London Spec Publ 168:55–75

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Patiño Douce AE, Beard JS (1996) Effect of P, f(O2) and Mg/Fe ratio on dehydration melting of model metagreywackes. J Petrol 37:999–1024

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Peccerillo A (1992) Potassic and ultrapotassic magmatism: compositional characteristics, genesis and geologic significance. Episodes 15:243–251

    Google Scholar 

  • Peccerillo A (2002) Plio-Quaternary magmatism in Central-Southern Italy: a new classification scheme for volcanic provinces and its geodynamic implications. Boll Soc Geol It, Vol Spec 1:113–127

    Google Scholar 

  • Peccerillo A (2005) Plio-Quaternary volcanism in Italy. Petrology, Geochemistry, Geodynamics. Springer, Heidelberg

  • Peccerillo A, Martinotti G (2006) The Western Mediterranean lamproitic magmatism: origin and geodynamic significance. Terra Nov. 18:109–117

  • Peccerillo A, Frezzotti ML (2015) Magmatism, mantle evolution and geodynamics at the converging plate margins of Italy. J Geol Soc London 172:407–427

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Peccerillo A, Conticelli S, Manetti P (1987) Petrological characteristics and the genesis of Recent magmatism of Southern Tuscany and Northern Latium. Period Mineral 56:157–172

    Google Scholar 

  • Peccerillo A, Poli G, Serri G (1988) Petrogenesis of orenditic and kamafugitic rocks from Central Italy. Can Mineral 26:45–65

    Google Scholar 

  • Peccerillo A, Alagna K, Donati C (2009) The Radicofani volcano: a window on a complexly zoned upper mantle beneath southern Tuscany, central Italy. Acta Vulcanologica 21-22:167–176

    Google Scholar 

  • Peccerillo A, De Astis G, Faraone D, Forni F, Frezzotti ML (2013) Compositional variations of magmas in the Aeolian arc: implications for petrogenesis and geodynamics. Geol Soc Lond Mem 37:491–510

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perrin M (1975) L'Ile d'Elbe et la limite Alpes-Apennins: données sur la structure geologique et l'evolution tectogenitique de l'Elbe alpine et de l'Elbe apennine. Boll Soc Geol Ital 94:1929–1955

    Google Scholar 

  • Pertusati PC, Raggi G, Ricci CA, Duranti S, Palmeri R (1993) Evoluzione post-collisionale dell'Elba centro-orientale. Mem Soc Geol Ital 49:297–312

    Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, Poli G (2000) Chaotic Dynamics and Fractals in Magmatic Interaction Processes: a Different Approach to the Interpretation of Mafic Microgranular Enclaves. Earth Planet Sci Lett 175:93–103

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, Poli G (2003) Chaotic Mixing of Magmas in the Tuscan Magmatic Province. In: G. Poli, D. Perugini, S. Rocchi & A. Dini (eds.), Miocene to Recent Plutonism and Volcanism in the Tuscan Magmatic Province (Central Italy), Period Mineral LXXII:53-61

  • Perugini D, Poli G (2004) Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Chaotic Advection and Chemical Diffusion During Magma Mixing: Petrological Implications. Lithos 78:43–66

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, Poli G (2005) Viscous fingering during replenishment of felsic magma chambers by continuous inputs of mafic magmas: field evidence and fluid-mechanics experiments. Geology 33:5–8

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, Poli G (2006) Tourmaline nodules from Capo Bianco aplite (Elba Island, Italy)/an example of diffusion limited aggregation growth in a magmatic system. Contrib Mineral Petr 153:493–508

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, Poli G, Mazzuoli R (2003a) Chaotic Advection, Fractals and Diffusion During Mixing of Magmas: Evidence from Lava Flows. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 124:255–279

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, Poli G, Christofides G, Eleftheriadis G (2003b) Magma mixing in the Sithonia Plutonic Complex, Greece: evidence from mafic microgranular enclaves. Mineral Petrol 78:173–200

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, De Campos C, Dingwell DB, Petrelli M, Poli G (2008) Trace Element Mobility During Magma Mixing: Preliminary Experimental Results. Chem Geol 256:146–157

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perugini D, Petrelli M, Poli G (2006) Diffusive Fractionation of Trace Elements by Chaotic Mixing of Magmas. Earth Planet Sci Lett 243:669–680

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Petrelli M, Perugini D, Poli G (2011) Transition to Chaos and Implications for Time-Scales of Magma Hybridization During Mixing Processes in Magma Chambers. Lithos 125:211–220

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pietranik A, Koepke J (2014) Plagioclase transfer from a host granodiorite to mafic microgranular enclaves: diverse records of magma mixing. Mineral Petrol 108:681–694

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pinarelli L, Poli G, Santo A (1989) Geochemical characterization of recent volcanism from the Tuscan Magmatic Province (Central Italy): the Roccastrada and San Vincenzo centers. Period Mineral LVIII 67-96

  • Pinarelli L (1991) Geochemical and isotopic (Sr, Pb) evidence of crust-mantle interaction in acidic melts- The Tolfa-Cerveteri-Manziana volcanic complex (central Italy): a case hystory. Chem Geol 92:177–195

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Poli G (1992) Geochemistry of Tuscan Archipelago granitoids, central Italy: the role of hybridization processes in their genesis. J Geol 100:41–56

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Poli G (2004) Genesis and evolution of Miocene-Quaternary intermediate-acid rocks from the Tuscan Magmatic Province. Period Mineral LXXIII 187-214

  • Poli G, Tommasini S (1999) Geochemical modeling of acid-basic magma interaction in the Sardinia-Corsica Batholith: the case study of Sarrabus, southeastern Sardinia, Italy. Lithos 46:553–571

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Poli G, Manetti P, Tommasini S (1989) A petrological review on Miocene-Pliocene intrusive rocks from Southern Tuscany and Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy). Period Mineral LVIII 109-126

  • Poli G, Tommasini S, Halliday AN (1996) Trace-element and isotopic exchange during acid-basic magma interaction processes. Trans R Soc Edinburgh Earth Sci 87:225–232

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Poli G, Peccerillo A, Donati C (2002) Genesis of Miocene-Pliocene intrusive rocks from Tuscan Magmatic Province: implication on the structure of Apeninic litosphere. Boll Soc Geol Ital, Vol Spec 1:129–139

    Google Scholar 

  • Prelevic D, Foley SF, Cvetkovic V, Romer RL, Downes H (2005) Tertiary ultrapotassic volcanism in Serbia: constraints on petrogenesis and mantle source characteristics. J Petrol 46:1443–1487

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Prelevic D, S.F. F, Romer R, Conticelli S (2008) Mediterranean Tertiary lamproites derived from multiple source components in postcollisional geodynamics. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 72:2125–2156

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Prelevic D, Stracke A, Foley SF, Romer RL, Conticelli S (2010) Hf isotope compositions of Mediterranean lamproites: Mixing of melts from asthenosphere and crustally contaminated mantle lithosphere. Lithos 119:297–312

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Principi G, Treves B (1984) Il sistema corso-appenninico come prisma d'accrezione: Riflessi sul problema generale del limite Alpi-Appennini. Mem Soc Geol It 28:549–576

    Google Scholar 

  • Rocchi S, Westerman DS, Dini A, Innocenti F, Tonarini S (2002) Two-stage growth of laccoliths at Elba Island, Italy. Geology 30:983–986

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ruggieri G, Lattanzi P (1992) Fluid inclusion studies on Mt. Capanne Pegmatites, Isola d'Elba, Tuscany, Italy. Eur J Mineral 4:1085–1096

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Serri G, Innocenti F, Manetti P (1993) Geochemical and petrological evidence of the subduction of delaminated Adriatic continental lithosphere in the genesis of the Neogene-Quaternary magmatism of central Italy. Tectonophysics 223:117–147

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Słaby E, Goetze J (2004) Feldspar crystallization under magma-mixing conditions shown by cathodoluminescence and geochemical modeling-a case study from the Karkonosze pluton (SW Poland). Mineral Mag 68:561–577

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Słaby E, Götze J, Wörner G, Simon K, Wrzalik R, Śmigielski M (2008) K-feldspar phenocrysts in microgranular magmatic enclaves: A cathodoluminescence and geochemical study of crystal growth as a marker of magma mingling dynamics. Lithos 105:85–97

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stimac JA, Wark DA (1992) Plagioclase mantles on sanidine in silicic lavas, Clear Lake, California: implications for the origin of rapakivi texture. Geol Soc Am Bull 104:728–744

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Streckeisen A, Le Maitre RW (1979) A chemical approximation to the modal QAPF classification of the igneous rocks. Neues Jb Miner Abh 136:169–206

    Google Scholar 

  • Sun SS, McDonough WF (1989) Chemical and isotopic systematics of Oceanic Basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. In: Saunders AD, Norry MJ (eds) Magmatism in the Ocean Basins. Geol Soc London Spec Publ 42:313–345

  • Tarquini S, Vinci S, Favalli M, Doumaz F, Fornaciai A, Nannipieri L (2012) Release of a 10-m-resolution DEM for the Italian territory: Comparison with global-coverage DEMs and anaglyph-mode exploration via the web. Comput Geosci 38:168–170

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trevisan L (1950) L'Elba orientale e la sua tettonica di scivolamento per gravità. Memorie dell'Istituto di Geologia dell'Università di Padova 16:1–39

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsuchiyama A (1985) Dissolution kinetics of plagioclase in melt of the system diopside–albite–anorthite, and the origin of dusty plagioclase in andesites. Contrib Mineral Petr 89:1–16

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vance JA (1965) Zoning of igneous plagioclase: patchy-zoning. J Geol 73:636–651

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Watson EB, Harrison TM, Ryerson FJ (1985) Diffusion of Sm, Sr and Pb in fluorapatite. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 49:1813–1823

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Westerman DS, Innocenti F, Tonarini S, Ferrara G (1993) The Pliocene intrusions of the Island of Giglio (Tuscany). Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 49:345–363

    Google Scholar 

  • Westerman DS, Dini A, Innocenti F, Rocchi S (2004) Rise and fall of a nested Christmas-tree laccolith complex, Elba Island, Italy. In: Breitkreuz C, Petford N (eds) Physical geology of high-level magmatic systems. Geol Soc London Spec Publ 234:195–213

  • Villaros A, Stevens G, Moyen JF, Buick IS (2009) The trace element compositions of S-type granites: evidence for disequilibrium melting and accessory phase entrainment in the source. Contrib Mineral Petrol 158:543–561

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang C, Ma C, Holtz F, Koepke J, Wolff PE, Berndt J (2013) Mineralogical and geochemical constraints on contribution of magma mixing and fractional crystallization to high-Mg adakite-like diorites in eastern Dabie orogen, East China. Lithos 172(173):118–138

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We dedicate this paper to the memory of our mentor and friend Prof. Domenico Faraone, whose intellectual honesty, and love for science and teaching have been primary guides for our academic activity. The critical reading and suggestions by Ewa Słaby and Santosh Kumar contributed substantially to improve the manuscript. Research on young magmatism in Italy has been financially supported by MIUR projects n. 2010PMKZX7, University of Milano Bicocca (M.L. Frezzotti) and n. 2010TT22SC, University of Perugia (G. Poli).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Piazza Università, Perugia, Italy

    Giampiero Poli

  2. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Università di Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Angelo Peccerillo

Authors
  1. Giampiero Poli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Angelo Peccerillo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Angelo Peccerillo.

Additional information

Editorial handling: P. Garofalo

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Poli, G., Peccerillo, A. The Upper Miocene magmatism of the Island of Elba (Central Italy): compositional characteristics, petrogenesis and implications for the origin of the Tuscany Magmatic Province. Miner Petrol 110, 421–445 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-016-0426-6

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-016-0426-6

Keywords

Search

Navigation