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Regional-scale paleofluid system across the Tuscan Nappe–Umbria–Marche Apennine Ridge (northern Apennines) as revealed by mesostructural and isotopic analyses of stylolite–vein networks
Nicolas E. Beaudoin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, LFCR, Pau, France
Aurélie Labeur
Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, LFCR, Pau, France
Institut des Sciences de la Terre de
Paris – ISTeP, CNRS-INSU, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Olivier Lacombe
Institut des Sciences de la Terre de
Paris – ISTeP, CNRS-INSU, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Daniel Koehn
GeoZentrum Nordbayern, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Andrea Billi
Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy
Guilhem Hoareau
Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, LFCR, Pau, France
Adrian Boyce
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), East Killbride,
UK
Cédric M. John
Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London,
London, UK
Marta Marchegiano
Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London,
London, UK
Nick M. Roberts
Geochronology and Tracers Facility, British Geological Survey, Environmental
Science Centre, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
Ian L. Millar
Geochronology and Tracers Facility, British Geological Survey, Environmental
Science Centre, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
Fanny Claverie
Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, IPREM, Pau, France
Christophe Pecheyran
Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, IPREM, Pau, France
Jean-Paul Callot
Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, E2S UPPA, LFCR, Pau, France
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This paper reports a multiproxy approach to reconstruct the depth, timing, and extent of the past fluid flow during the formation of a fold-and-thrust belt in the Northern Apennines, Italy. The unique combination of paleopiezometry and absolute dating returns the absolute timing of the sequence of deformation. Combined with burial models, this leads to predict the expected temperatures for fluid, highlighting a limited hydrothermal fluid flow we relate to the large-scale subsurface geometry.
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