From floor to roof of a batholith: geology and petrography of the north-eastern Serre Batholith (Calabria, southern Italy)

We present an original geological map of the north-eastern Serre Batholith (southern Italy), together with new field and petrographic data its main five granitoid units. Our study provides overall picture a c. 13-thick floor-to-roof batholith exposure, focusing on relationships between magmatic units, which were sequentially emplaced at depth from 23 to 6 km, in time interval 297 Ma 292 Ma. Indeed, this composite zoned batholith, crustal scale exposure large compositional structural diversity, is real natural laboratory where test models magma production construction. The related provide valuable addition existing knowledge and, same time, starting point for further in-depth multidisciplinary investigations aimed better understand architecture build-up mechanisms.