DISCOVERY OF TRIASSIC RADIOLARITES IN AN OPHIOLITIC COMPLEX OF THE SOUTHERN PELOPONNESE (AGELONA, LAKONIA, GREECE)

Authors

  • Taniel Danelian Laboratoire de Micropaléontologie, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie et CNRS-ESA 073, C.104, T.15-25, E4, 4, Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
  • Spyros Lekkas Division de Géologie Structurale et Appliquée, Département de Géologie, Université d’Athènes, Panepistimioupoli, Zografou, GR-15784 Athènes, Grèce
  • Apostolis Alexopoulos Division de Géologie Structurale et Appliquée, Département de Géologie, Université d’Athènes, Panepistimioupoli, Zografou, GR-15784 Athènes, Grèce

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4454/ofioliti.v25i2.124

Abstract

A relatively small ophiolitic complex in southern Peloponnese (Agelona) is mainly composed 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 Upper Triassic deep-sea sediments would represent accumulation of radiolarian ooze on a rugged Tethyan oceanic floor situated near a medio-oceanic ridge.

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Published

2000-07-01

How to Cite

Danelian, T., Lekkas, S., & Alexopoulos, A. (2000). DISCOVERY OF TRIASSIC RADIOLARITES IN AN OPHIOLITIC COMPLEX OF THE SOUTHERN PELOPONNESE (AGELONA, LAKONIA, GREECE). Ofioliti, 25(2), 161. https://doi.org/10.4454/ofioliti.v25i2.124

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2000)

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