Styles of positive inversion tectonics in the Central Apennines and in the Adriatic foreland: Implications for the evolution of the Apennine chain (Italy)

V Scisciani - Journal of Structural Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
Integration of new field structural and geophysical data with existing information from the
Apennines chain in Italy and its adjacent Adriatic foreland indicates that the styles of positive …

[HTML][HTML] Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin–implications for subduction processes in the Alps

E Le Breton, S Brune, K Ustaszewski, S Zahirovic… - Solid Earth, 2021 - se.copernicus.org
Assessing the size of a former ocean of which only remnants are found in mountain belts is
challenging but crucial to understanding subduction and exhumation processes. Here we …

Extensional basins in the tectonically bimodal central Apennines fold-thrust belt, Italy: response to corner flow above a subducting slab in retrograde motion

GP Cavinato, PGD Celles - Geology, 1999 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Apennines fold-thrust belt has developed over the past∼ 20 my in response to
southeastward retrograde migration of the Adriatic trench in a region of ongoing subduction …

An improved stress map for Italy and surrounding regions (central Mediterranean)

P Montone, MT Mariucci, S Pondrelli… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We present an updated present‐day stress data compilation for the Italian region and
discuss it with respect to the geodynamic setting and the seismicity of the area. We collected …

Contemporaneous extension and compression in the Northern Apennines from earthquake fault-plane solutions

A Frepoli, A Amato - Geophysical Journal International, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Northern Apenninic arc belongs to the deformation zones surrounding the
Adriatic plate, which behaves as a rigid block. It is a NE-verging fold-and-thrust belt, which …

Slab retreat and active shortening along the central-northern Apennines

D Scrocca, E Carminati, C Doglioni… - Thrust belts and Foreland …, 2007 - Springer
The Quaternary geodynamic evolution and the tectonic processes active along the Central
and Northern Apennines thrust fronts and in the adjacent Padane-Adriatic foredeep domains …

An atlas of Mediterranean seismicity

G Vannucci, S Pondrelli, A Argnani, A Morelli… - 2004 - cris.unibo.it
The CD-ROM as well as the web pages contain an extensive collection of maps made by
GMT (Wessel and Smith, 1991) reporting the seismicity of the Africa-Eurasia margin from the …

Eustatic and tectonic control on deposition and lateral variability of Quaternary regressive sequences in the Adriatic basin (Italy)

D Ridente, F Trincardi - Marine geology, 2002 - Elsevier
During the late Pleistocene, sea level variations related to glacio-eustatic cycles induced the
deposition of four regressive sequences on the western continental shelf of the Adriatic …

Thrust front segmentation induced by differential slab retreat in the Apennines (Italy)

D Scrocca - Terra Nova, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
New seismic reflection data reveal that the south‐eastward prolongation of the Apennine
thrust front in the central Adriatic Sea is most likely located in a more external position with …

Adria seismicity and seismotectonics: Review and critical discussion

D Di Bucci, P Angeloni - Marine and petroleum geology, 2013 - Elsevier
We review the most recent advances in research on the seismicity and seismotectonics of
Adria. A large number of earthquakes associated with this lithospheric block occur near the …