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https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-645-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-645-2023
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15 Aug 2023
Research article |  | 15 Aug 2023

Provenance, protolith and metamorphic ages of jadeite-bearing orthogneiss and host paragneiss at Tavagnasco, the Sesia Zone, Lower Aosta Valley, Italy

Jane A. Gilotti, William C. McClelland, Simon Schorn, Roberto Compagnoni, and Matthew A. Coble

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We show that metamorphosed sedimentary rocks in the Western Alps have a detrital zircon signature that connects them to the Adrian plate along the Gondwana margin. We used zircon to learn that a jadeite-bearing orthogneiss intruded into these strata in the Ordovician (at ~460 Ma) and was metamorphosed at high pressure during early Alpine subduction of Adria beneath Europe at ~78 Ma. Our results are consistent with the complex subduction of Adria before full-on collision with the European plate.