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Peridotite from
Hyblean Plateau (Hyblean Mountains; Hyblaean Plateau; Hyblaean Mountains), Sicily, Italy


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Type:Peridotite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Peridotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hyblean Plateau (Hyblean Mountains; Hyblaean Plateau; Hyblaean Mountains), Sicily, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1388080
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1388080:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Tonarini, S., D'Orazio, M., Armienti, P., Innocenti, F., & Scribano, V. (1996). Geochemical features of eastern Sicily lithosphere as probed by Hyblean xenoliths and lavas. European Journal of Mineralogy, 8(5), 1153-1173.
Bianchini, G., Clocchiatti, R., Coltorti, M., Joron, J. L., & Vaccaro, C. (1998). Petrogenesis of mafic lavas from the northernmost sector of the Iblean district (Sicily). European Journal of Mineralogy-Ohne Beihefte, 10(2), 301-316.
Trua, T., Esperança, S., & Mazzuoli, R. (1998). The evolution of the lithospheric mantle along the N. African Plate: geochemical and isotopic evidence from the tholeiitic and alkaline volcanic rocks of the Hyblean plateau, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 131(4), 307-322.
Bianchini, G., Bell, K., & Vaccaro, C. (1999). Mantle sources of the Cenozoic Iblean volcanism (SE Sicily, Italy): Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic constraints. Mineralogy and Petrology, 67(3-4), 213-221.
Di Grande, A., Mazzoleni, P., Lo Giudice, A., Beccaluva, L., Macciotta, G., & Siena, F. (2002). Subaerial Plio-Pleistocene volcanism in the geo-petrographic and structural context of the north/central Iblean region (Sicily). Periodico di Mineralogia, 71, 159-189.
Sapienza, G. T., Griffin, W. L., O’Reilly, S. Y., & Morten, L. (2009). Petrology and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope geochemistry of gabbro xenoliths from the Hyblean Plateau: a MARID reservoir beneath SE Sicily?. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 157(1), 1-22.
Bianchini, G., Yoshikawa, M., & Sapienza, G. T. (2010). Comparative study of ultramafic xenoliths and associated lavas from South-Eastern Sicily: nature of the lithospheric mantle and insights on magma genesis. Mineralogy and Petrology, 98(1-4), 111-121.
Correale, A., Martelli, M., Paonita, A., Rizzo, A., Brusca, L., & Scribano, V. (2012). New evidence of mantle heterogeneity beneath the Hyblean Plateau (southeast Sicily, Italy) as inferred from noble gases and geochemistry of ultramafic xenoliths. Lithos, 132, 70-81.
Suiting, I., & Schmincke, H. U. (2012). Iblean diatremes 3: volcanic processes on a Miocene carbonate platform (Iblean Mountains, SE-Sicily): a comparison of deep vs. shallow marine eruptive processes. Bulletin of volcanology, 74(1), 207-230.
 
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