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Sourceland controls and dispersal pathways of Holocene muds from boreholes of the Ionian Basin, Calabria, southern Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2015

FRANCESCO PERRI ,
SALVATORE CRITELLI ,
ROCCO DOMINICI ,
FRANCESCO MUTO  and
MAURIZIO PONTE
FRANCESCO PERRI*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
SALVATORE CRITELLI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
ROCCO DOMINICI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
FRANCESCO MUTO
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
MAURIZIO PONTE
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
*
†Author for correspondence: francesco.perri@unical.it
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Abstract

Deep-marine muds were collected from two boreholes (Crati II and Neto VI) along the Ionian Calabrian Basin. The samples from the Crati II and the Neto VI boreholes show a similar mineralogical distribution; the marine muds contain mostly phyllosilicates, quartz, calcite, feldspars and dolomite. Traces of gypsum are present in a few samples. The Neto muds show higher concentrations of carbonates than the Crati muds; these contents are mainly related to recycling of the Neogene–Quaternary carbonate-rich marine deposits of the Crotone Basin, which mostly influences the composition of the Neto muds. The geochemical signatures of the muds mainly reflect a provenance characterized by felsic rocks with a minor, but not negligible, mafic supply. In particular, the hinterland composition of the Crati drainage area is on average more mafic in composition than the Neto drainage area. The higher mafic concentration of the Crati sample muds is probably related to the ophiolitiferous units that are exposed in the Crati drainage basin. The degree of source area weathering was most probably of low–moderate intensity because the Chemical Index of Alteration values for the studied muds range from 67 to 69. Furthermore, the low and constant Al/K and Rb/K ratios suggest low–moderate weathering without important fluctuations in weathering intensity. The Al2O3–TiO2–Zr ternary diagram and the values of the Index of Compositional Variability indicate that both the Neto and Crati muds are first-cycle, compositionally immature sediments, related to a tectonically active (collision) setting such as the Calabria–Peloritani Arc, where chemical weathering plays a minor role.

Keywords

Ionian Basinnortheastern Calabriamineralogical distributiongeochemical signatureprovenance
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Geological Magazine , Volume 152 , Issue 6 , November 2015 , pp. 957 - 972
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