Magmatectonic Zonation of Italy: A Tool to Understanding Mediterranean

Abstract

The Cenozoic magmatic activity of Italy is characterized, from the Alps to the Aeolian Islands, by an abundance of SiO2-undersaturated potassic to ultra-potassic rock-types (leucite-phonolites, leucitites, kamafugites and lamproites). Rocks of sodic character, mainly sub-alkaline transitional and alkaline basaltic in composition plus some isolate