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Petrology and mineralogy of wollastonite- and melilite-bearing paralavas from the Central Apennines, Italy

Leone Melluso^1,*, Sandro Conticelli^2,, Massimo D’Antonio¹, Nicoletta P. Mirco³ and Emilio Saccani⁴

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Via Mezzocannone, 8, I-80134, Napoli, Italy
² Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, and Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via G. La Pira, 4, I-50121, Firenze, Italy
³ Via V. Monti, 1R, I-50124, Firenze, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Corso Ercole I d’Este 32, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy

Correspondence: ^* E-mail: melluso{at}unina.it

Small outcrops of wollastonite- and melilite-bearing pyrometamorphic rocks (paralavas) are found along the Apennine chain in Central Italy at the localities of Colle Fabbri and Ricetto. These rocks have coarse- to fine-grained crystalline, spotted, and glassy textures. The Colle Fabbri rocks have abundant and ubiquitous wollastonite, with plagioclase ± clinopyroxene. Melilite is found only in the most Ca-rich and silica-poor samples. Garnet, perovskite, quartz, leucite, silica-rich glassy mesostasis, and ocelli filled by calcite are present locally. The Ricetto rock is made up of wollastonite and melilite with minor clinopyroxene set in a glassy matrix with a few crystals of restitic quartz. These rocks have variable contents of SiO₂ (43 to 64 wt%) and CaO (37 to 3.7 wt%). The latter decreases with increasing MgO, Al₂O₃, Fe₂O_{3 tot}, TiO₂, K₂O, SiO₂, and most trace elements, excluding Sr. Peculiar parageneses (e.g., coexisting melilite and anorthite in the most silica-poor samples, abundance of wollastonite), mineral compositions (gehlenite-rich melilite; Al-, Ti-, and Fe³⁺-rich clinopyroxene; Al-, Ti-rich, but Fe-poor garnet), and major- and trace-element geochemistry suggest that the Colle Fabbri and Ricetto rocks are not ultimately mantle-derived, but are the result of melting, devolatilization, and recrystallization of marly sediments (50–60 to 5–10% calcite, with clay minerals ± quartz), likely due to coal fires. The ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr and ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd range from 0.70772 to 0.71190 and from 0.51223 to 0.51219, respectively, again suggesting sedimentary protoliths of a mixed nature. Substantial chemical and isotopic differences between these samples and those from the Roman Magmatic Province are highlighted.

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