Modern sands derived from the Vertiskos Unit of the Serbomacedonian Massif (N. Greece): a preliminary study on the weathering of the Unit

Open Geosciences - Tập 4 Số 3 - Trang 465-477 - 2012
Ioannis K. Georgiadis1, C. Koroneos1, A. Tsirambides1, Michael G. Stamatakis2
1School of Geology, Department of Mineralogy-Petrology-Economic Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24, Thessaloniki, Greece
2School of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Economic Geology and Geochemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 157 84, Athens, Greece

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Abstract Modern sand samples were collected from the Vertiskos Unit of the Serbomacedonian Massif, northern Greece, and were examined for their texture and mineralogical composition. They were collected from active channels and torrents. The textural study demonstrated that these modern sands are moderately to very-poorly sorted, often polymodal in grain size distribution, texturally and mineralogically immature to submature, and consist of coarse-grained gravelly sands to slightly-gravelly muddy sands. The dominant composition is quartzofeldspathic. All samples contain detrital minerals of metamorphic origin, mainly amphibole and garnet, in addition to minor amounts of pyroxene and detrital calcite. These sediments were deposited rapidly and close to their source, the metamorphic basement of the Vertiskos Unit. The mineral constituents of the samples indicate that the Vertiskos Unit is undergoing rapid physical weathering due to the temperate and seasonal climate. The results of this study suggest that these modern sands constitute one sedimentary petrologic province comprised of primarily of amphibole-garnet.

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Open Geosciences

Tập 4 Số 3

465-477

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