Alps vs. Apennines: The paradigm of a tectonically asymmetric Earth

E Carminati, C Doglioni - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Alps and Apennines developed along opposite subductions, which inverted the tethyan
passive continental margins located along the boundaries of Europe, Africa and the Adriatic …

The inventory and quantitative assessment of geodiversity as strategic tools for promoting sustainable geoconservation and geo-education in the Peloritani Mountains …

R Somma - Education Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Most methods used for geoheritage inventories do not consider the quantitative assessment
of the geodiversity indicators; consequently, it can happen that some geosites are wrongly …

[PDF][PDF] The Calabria-Peloritani Orogen, a composite terrane in Central Mediterranean; its overall architecture and geodynamic significance for a pre-Alpine scenario …

R Cirrincione, E Fazio, P Fiannacca… - Periodico di …, 2015 - researchgate.net
Abstract The Calabria-Peloritani Orogen is an arcuate segment of the peri-Mediterranean
orogenic Alpine nappe system that comprises the whole Calabria and the north-eastern …

Integrated geostructural, seismic and infrared thermography surveys for the study of an unstable rock slope in the Peloritani Chain (NE Sicily)

S Mineo, G Pappalardo, F Rapisarda, A Cubito… - Engineering …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a multidisciplinary study about the instability of a rock slope on
Peloritani Chain, northeastern Sicily. Several rockfalls affected the studied slope in the last …

Late Palaeozoic tectonics in Central Mediterranean: a reappraisal

G Molli, A Brogi, A Caggianelli, E Capezzuoli… - Swiss Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
A revision of late Palaeozoic tectonics recorded in Tuscany, Calabria and Corsica is here
presented. We propose that, in Tuscany, upper Carboniferous-Permian shallow-marine to …

Peri-Gondwanan origin and early geodynamic history of NE Sicily: a zircon tale from the basement of the Peloritani Mountains

IS Williams, P Fiannacca, R Cirrincione, A Pezzino - Gondwana Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The ages of detrital zircon grains from one paragneiss and inherited zircon cores from two
augen gneisses from the amphibolite facies basement of the Peloritani Mountains (southern …

Submagmatic to solid-state deformation microstructures recorded in cooling granitoids during exhumation of late-Variscan crust in North-Eastern Sicily

E Fazio, P Fiannacca, D Russo, R Cirrincione - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Late-Variscan granitoid rocks of trondhjemitic and granitic composition, intruded in
migmatitic paragneisses in the north-eastern Peloritani Mountains (southern Italy) at~ 310 …

Hydrogeochemical study of an ophiolitic aquifer: a case study of Lago (Southern Italy, Calabria)

T Critelli, G Vespasiano, C Apollaro, F Muto… - Environmental Earth …, 2015 - Springer
A hydrogeochemical survey was carried out in the area of Lago (Calabria region, Southern
Italy) and outcropping geological units were classified from the hydrogeological point of …

Study of landslides at the archaeological site of Abakainon necropolis (NE Sicily) by geomorphological and geophysical investigations

G Pappalardo, S Imposa, MS Barbano, S Grassi… - Landslides, 2018 - Springer
This paper reports on the investigation of the old landslide body on which the necropolis of
Abakainon, an Italian archaeological site, was built about 2400 years ago. This site is …

Late-Proterozoic to Paleozoic history of the peri-Gondwana Calabria–Peloritani Terrane inferred from a review of zircon chronology

A Fornelli, F Micheletti, G Piccarreta - SpringerPlus, 2016 - Springer
U–Pb analyses of zircon from ten samples of augen gneisses, eight mafic and intermediate
metaigneous rocks and six metasediments from some tectonic domains along the Calabria …