Discovery of Triassic radiolarites in an ophiolitic complex of the southernmost Peloponnese (Agelona, Lakonia, Greece).

Authors
Danelian, T Lekkas, S Alexopoulos, A
Citation
T. Danelian et al., Discovery of Triassic radiolarites in an ophiolitic complex of the southernmost Peloponnese (Agelona, Lakonia, Greece)., CR AC S IIA, 330(9), 2000, pp. 639-644
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES SERIE II FASCICULE A-SCIENCES DELA TERRE ET DES PLANETES
ISSN journal
12518050 → ACNP
Volume
330
Issue
9
Year of publication
2000
Pages
639 - 644
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(20000530)330:9<639:DOTRIA>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A relatively small ophiolitic complex in the southern Peloponnese (Agelona) is composed mainly of serpentinites, amphibolites and gabbros. Diagnostic Carnian-Norian radiolaria were extracted from a few metres of red-brownish radiolarian cherts overlying gabbros. The contact between radiolarites and gabbros seems to be stratigraphic. These Late Triassic deep-sea sediments w ould represent accumulation of radiolarian ooze on a rugged Tethyan oceanic floor situated near a medio-oceanic ridge. (C) 2000 Academie des sciences / Editions scientifiques et medicares Elsevier SAS.