The Fragnè mine, located in the Lanzo valley municipality of Chialamberto (Turin, Piedmont Region), represented most important regional site for Fe–Cu sulfide exploitation over a period more than eighty years (1884–1965). entire mining area is part structural complex Lower Unit Western Alps, characterized by presence amphibolite, metabasite (“prasinite”), and metagabbroic rocks. In particular, ...

Greenschist facies metabasite (chlorite schist) and metasediments (banded iron formation (BIF)) in the Wutai Complex, North China Craton recorded extensive fluid activities during subduction-related metamorphism. The pervasive dolomitization chlorite schist significant dolomite enrichment at BIF–chlorite interface support existence of highly channelized updip transportation CO2-rich hydrotherma...

The Portofino Conglomerate (PC) cropping out in the Eastern Liguria is an approximately 500 m thick, very gently folded succession mainly composed of poorly bedded and mostly matrix-supported conglomerates. It stratigraphically rests on Helminthoid Flysch (UA3) thrusted onto Antola Unit. We vertically distinguished three ruditic litho/petrofacies: (i) Paraggi (fP) with carbonate clasts from suc...

Since the early Cenozoic, closure of Alpine Tethys in Western Mediterranean has been accomplished by protracted subduction, followed collision and orogenic collapse. The internal zones Betic Cordillera (southern Spain) Rif (northern Morocco) experienced subduction metamorphism subsequent exhumation due to westward migration system. detrital provenance these meta-sedimentary units contains cruci...