List of Figures
- 1. Location of the major ophiolite massifs
- 2. Mesozoic evolution of the Central Atlantic and Ligurian Tethys oceans
- 3. Schematic palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Ligure-Piemontese basin during Late Jurassic
- 4. Main features and field relationships of the sub-continental lithospheric spinel lherzolites and the reactive spinel harzburgites.
- 5. Representative micro-textures of lithospheric spinel lherzolites and reactive spinel harzburgites.
- 6. Main features and field relationships of impregnated plagioclase peridotites and replacive dunites.
- 7. Representative micro-textures of the impregnated plagioclase peridotites.
- 8. Some bulk rock major element characteristics of the Alpine-Apennine ophiolitic peridotites.
- 9. Some mineral chemistry characteristics of the Alpine-Apennine ophiolitic peridotites.
- 10. C1-normalized REE patterns of representative clinopyroxenes in distal reactive spinel peridotites and calculated equilibrium liquids.
- 11. C1-normalized REE patterns of representative clinopyroxenes in distal impregnated plagioclase peridotites and calculated equilibrium liquids.
- 12. C1-normalized REE patterns of representative clinopyroxenes in distal replacive dunite channels of Erro-Tobbio (ET) and Mt. Maggiore (field 1) and calculated equilibrium liquids.
- 13. C1-normalized REE patterns of representative clinopyroxenes in distal replacive dunite channels of South Lanzo (field 2) and calculated equilibrium liquids.
- 14. Schematic scenario of the geodynamic evolution of the Ligure-Piemontese basin (from top to bottom) (redrawn and modified after Brunn and Beslier, 1996, and Piccardo et al., 2009).