Granite des Montées Pélissier
Back to Aig. Rouges MassifRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,51%,49%,16%)
- Color RGB
- R: 215 G: 105 B: 110
- Rank
- lithostratigraphic Formation
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Montées-Pélissier-Granit
- Français
- Granite des Montées Pélissier
- Italiano
- Granito delle Montées Pélissier
- English
- Montées Pélissier Granite
- Origin of the Name
- Historical Variants
- --- (Laurent 1967), Montées-Pélissier granite (Dobmeier 1996), Montées-Pélissiers peraluminous granite (Bussy et al. 2000, Capuzzo et al. 2003)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Superordinate unit
Age
- Age at top
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- Visean
- Age at base
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- Visean
- Dating Method
- 332 +/-2 Ma (U/Pb on zircon and monazite ; Bussy et al. 2000)
Palaenography and tectonic
- Tectonic unit (resp. main category)
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Aiguilles Rouges
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massif des Aiguilles Rouges
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Aiguilles Rouges
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- Kind of protolith
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- plutonic
References
- Definition
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2001) :
Mont-Blanc, Aiguilles-Rouges massifs (External Massifs) - an example of polyorogenic evolution. Fieldtrip Guide 1, 53-84, Univ. Lausanne
p.66: The Montées-Pélissier granite is a vertical 3 km-long by 500 m-wide sheet-like pluton in tectonic contact with its country-rocks. A transpressive regime induced subhorizontal movements with extreme elongation, subsequently reoriented into subvertical displacements (Dobmeier 1998). The granite intruded syntectonically along ductile shear-zones during the transcurrent stage and recorded the subsequent vertical movements during cooling (Dobmeier 1996). Primary magmatic flow fabrics are mostly superimposed by low-T ductile to brittle deformation. The Montées-Pélissier granite is a fine-grained foliated two-mica monzogranite, which hosts rare biotite-rich restites, mafic microgranular enclaves and biotite-bearing lamprophyres. It is peraluminous with A/CNK values between 1.17 and 1.27; but primary muscovite is scarce and the mean representative point of its zircon morphological population plots at the limit between peraluminous and calc-alkaline granite fields in the typological grid of Pupin (1988).
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