GERARDO MAZZELLA

 GERARDO MAZZELLA

Active transpression in the northern Calabria Apennines, Southern Italy

Article in Tectonophysics 476(1-2):226-251 · October 2009 with 295 Reads 

DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.010

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Luigi Ferranti

34.78University of Naples Federico II

E. Santoro

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M.E. Mazzella

Carmelo Monaco

37.54University of Catania

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An integrated analysis of geomorphologic and structural data, offshore seismic profiles and local network seismicity, is used to shed light on the hitherto poorly known active deformation field that affects the Southern Apennines orogen in northern Calabria region. In the Southern Apennines, Middle Pleistocene waning of Miocene–Early Pleistocene thin-skinned frontal thrust belt motion toward the Apulian foreland to the NE was coeval to onset of regional uplift, which is documented by flights of raised marine terraces. Short-wavelength (∼ 5–10 km) and amplitude (∼ 20–50 m) undulations are superposed to the regional uplift (∼ 100 km length and ∼ 500 m amplitude scale) profile of Middle–Upper Pleistocene marine terraces on the Ionian Sea coast of northern Calabria stretching along the borders of the Sila and Pollino mountain ranges and across the intervening Sibari coastal plain. The secondary undulations spatially coincide with the last generation of ∼ W- to ∼ WNW-striking folds traced in bedrock and locally within Early to Middle Pleistocene continental to transitional deposits. The very recent activity of these structures is highlighted by a range of fluvial geomorphic anomalies and by involvement in folding and locally transpressional faulting of the Middle Pleistocene and younger depositional sequences submerged beneath the continental shelf. We argue that the local-scale, but pervasive undulations in the deformation profile of marine terraces represent shallow-crustal folds grown within a recent and still active transpressional field. A major structural culmination bound by fore- and retro-verging transpressional shear zones is represented by the Pollino mountain range and its offshore extension in the Amendolara ridge, and a further SW-directed transpressional belt is found in northern Sila and adjacent sea bottom. Epicenter distribution and focal solutions of low- to moderate crustal earthquakes illuminate the two NW-SE trending structural belts beneath the Amendolara ridge and northern Sila, where partitioning between thrust and left strike-slip motion occurs in response to ∼ E to ∼ NE directed shortening. A local ∼ NW-SE extension is recorded by fault-kinematic analysis on NE-SW striking fault segments parallel to the coast on the eastern flank of Pollino. These small-length normal faults do not form a through-going lineament, rather they accommodate the seaward collapse of the uppermost crust above the deeper shortening compartment. Conversely, the active transpression testified by geomorphic, structural and seismicity data is accommodated along deep-seated oblique back-thrusts that involve the Apulian foreland plate underlying the now inactive thin-skinned accretionary wedge down to near-Moho depths. In light of the tight interlacing between regional and local components of deformation affecting the marine terraces, we suggest that the large-scale uplift in this sector of Calabria may reflect whole crustal-scale folding. The novel seismotectonic frame reconstructed for this region is consistent with GPS velocities suggesting that large part of geodetic shortening detected between the Apennines and the Apulian block on the eastern side of southern Italy might be accommodated in northern Calabria.

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... In the central sector of the SP, the basement is overlapped by a thick Miocene-Holocene succession; the mio-pliocenic deposits represent the infilling of the Sibari-Corigliano Basin, which evolution is strictly connected with the Sangineto Line activity [42,43], and they are deformed by fault activity with formation of morphological/structural highs and lows [44]. In [45], the authors suggest the existence of WNW-ESE trending shallow-crustal folds, developed within a recent and still active transpressional field. oriented segment of the Apennines thrust belt. ...

... In the map is showed the hypocenters location of the earthquakes occurred between 2003 and 2010 (ISIDe [74]) with the relative magnitude and hypocentral depth. Onshore capable faults from [46] and focal mechanisms from [45]. [73]) shows the presence of three morphological highs (Amendolara, Rossano and Cariati highs). ...

... In the map is showed the hypocenters location of the earthquakes occurred between 2003 and 2010 (ISIDe [74]) with the relative magnitude and hypocentral depth. Onshore capable faults from [46] and focal mechanisms from [45]. Yellow dashed lines are the boundaries of three selected sectors (1. ...

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... The activity of these faults during the Quaternary time is still debated (Lanzafame and Tortorici, 1981;Knott and Turco, 1991;Cucci, 2004;Molin et al., 2004;Ferranti et al., 2009). Ferranti et al. (2009) suggests the existence of WNW-ESE shallowcrustal folds, which involve late-Middle Pleistocene sediments, grown within a recent and still active transpressional field. Recently, Ferranti et al. (2014) detailed the presence of an active oblique-contractional belt in the Corigliano Gulf (Fig. 3), which testifies the major active horizontal compressive stress present in this portions of the Calabrian sector inferred by the focal mechanism of recent earthquakes in the area (Pondrelli et al., 2006). ...

... The isopach map (Fig. 12) illustrates that the morphostructural pattern of this sector of the SP is dominated by faults, which bound structural paleohighs and depocenters, that are generally E-W trending paleostructures and oriented at high angles to the orogenic belt. In the southwestern side of the map (Fig. 11a), the isopachs depict a relative high, which can be correlated to the structural high hypothesized by Lanzafame and Tortorici (1981) and the landward one supposed by Ferranti et al. (2009). The map shows three main depozones located at the confluence between Crati and Coscile Rivers, the present Crati rivermouth and northwards from the Corigliano harbour. ...

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... It has been laterally correlated to the syn-tectonic wedges recognized on the foreland. After the middle Pleistocene transpressional tectonic affected the collisional area in the Taranto Gulf (Del Ben et al., 2008;Ferranti et al., 2009), and also deformed the western sector of the foredeep sequences (Thrusted Foredeep Succession, the interpreted sector 3). ...

... Integration of these different data supports the affinity of TAB to the Apulian carbonate platform. Finally, the TAB would be the southern continuation of the Amendolara Ridge, identified further to the north in the Taranto Gulf (Ferranti et al., 2009(Ferranti et al., , 2014. They together would represent the result of a middle-upper Pleistocene transpressional tectonics (Del Ben et al., 2008;Ferranti et al., 2009) that has affected the margin of the thick Apulian Foreland. ...

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... Four order of terraces have been recognized by Carobene (2003) and five by Robustelli et al. (2009) along the coastal portion of the Trionto River, while Cucci & Cinti (1998) distinguished seven order of terraces north of the Crati River. Ferranti et al. (2009) identified eleven orders of terraces in the area comprised between the northeastern border of the Sila Massif, the Crati Plain and the Coriglianeto River. Olivetti et al. (2012) pointed out uplift of the whole Sila Massif by means of morphometric analysis and incision rate estimation on fluvial systems crossing the Massif. ...

... 2. On the other hand, the identified deformation is also consistent with the occurrence of Quaternary strike slip movements, with local transtensional and transpressive kinematics, in the area comprised between Rossano (east of the town) and Cirò Marina Folino Gallo, 2010), referred to as Rossano-San Nicola Fault Zone by Tansi et al., 2007, Muto et al., 2014. The investigated structures are compatible with the offshore NW-SE oriented major shear zone provided by Ferranti et al. (2009Ferranti et al. ( , 2014 and can represent the onshore expression of transpressive left- ticular, it would have been sourced from a roughly NW-SE to WNW-ESE trending structure which, as mentioned above, Galli et al. (2009) associated to an activation episode of the Rossano normal fault ( Fig. 10 and inset). Nonetheless, the transpressive faulting evidence we collected is compatible both in terms of orientation and of location with a main seismogenic fault located right in the epicentral area of the 1836 earthquake (Fig. 10, inset). ...

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... The SM is flanked westward by thick Neogene sediments filling the subsident N-S oriented Belvedere, Paola, Amantea and Crati basins (Perri, 1996(Perri, -1997Mattei et al., 1999Mattei et al., , 2002Pepe et al., 2010;Spina et al., 2011), while eastward is covered by coeval terranes belonging to the Rossano, Cirò and Crotone wedge-top depozones . Both sideways are segmented by Miocenic synsedimentary leftlateral NW-SE transpressional regional faults that caused uplift and erosions, followed by Lower Pliocene to Pleistocene gradual exhumation due to normal to oblique wrench tectonics (Ghisetti and Vezzani, 1981;Thomson, 1994;Van Dijk et al., 2000;Ferranti et al., 2009;Minelli and Faccenna, 2010;Vignaroli et al., 2012;Massari and Prosser, 2013;Muto et al., 2014). ...

... Despite some differences due to the collocation of the SBs, since they put them after the Falling Stage Systems Tracts (FSST) (e.g. Catuneanu, 2006;Catuneanu et al., 2009Catuneanu et al., , 2011, whereas in our model the SBs are located after the HST (Mitchum, 1977, Haq et al., 1988, Emery and Myers, 1996Simmons et al., 2007), their Early Messinian Seq. 1 can be correlated with part of our Seq 2. Specifically, their HST and the following forced regression clinoforms of the FSST, are respectively comparable with the CdB 1 (HST) and the following Paludi Breccia Fm in the Rossano Basin and Breccia Unit in the Belvedere Basin (LSW) (Fig. 14). After the FSST a halite body (a LST for the Authors) marks the onset of the Seq. 2 in the Crotone Basin and, can be directly correlated with the Halite dominated body of the Rossano Basin, which in our nomenclature represents a Late LST + BFE (Figs. 9 and 14). ...

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... [11] The Quaternary uplift of the Sila is recorded by flights of fluvial and marine terraces located in the Crati R. Valley and along the Ionian coast [Ciaranfi et al., 1983;Colella et al., 1987;Gliozzi, 1987;Cosentino and Gliozzi, 1988;Palmentola et al., 1990;Cucci and Cinti, 1998;Molin et al., 2002;Carobene, 2003;Zecchin et al., 2004;Robustelli et al., 2009;Ferranti et al., 2009]. The uplift rates have been approximately calculated between 1 and 0.4 mm/yr [Gliozzi, 1987;Molin et al., 2002;Carobene, 2003;Ferranti et al., 2009]. ...

... [11] The Quaternary uplift of the Sila is recorded by flights of fluvial and marine terraces located in the Crati R. Valley and along the Ionian coast [Ciaranfi et al., 1983;Colella et al., 1987;Gliozzi, 1987;Cosentino and Gliozzi, 1988;Palmentola et al., 1990;Cucci and Cinti, 1998;Molin et al., 2002;Carobene, 2003;Zecchin et al., 2004;Robustelli et al., 2009;Ferranti et al., 2009]. The uplift rates have been approximately calculated between 1 and 0.4 mm/yr [Gliozzi, 1987;Molin et al., 2002;Carobene, 2003;Ferranti et al., 2009]. ...

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... Such an extensional stress field results in a complex system of normal faults striking nearly parallel to the Apennines chain and bordering the south-western boundary of the Pollino range (Schiattarella 1998, Ferranti et al. 2009, Ferranti et al. 2014. Other structural investigations using seismic reflection profiles and local network seismicity suggest a still ongoing transpressional regime with left-lateral kinematics in the easternmost and offshore part of the Pollino shear zone (Catalano et al. 1993, Ferranti et al. 2009), while inversion of deformation data suggests a transtensional regime of the western part of the range in the Mercure and Morano-Castrovillari basin (Ferranti 2014). ...

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... In particular, the CN is the result of compressive/transpressive tectonic phases from late Tortonian to Pliocene or to Pleistocene (Ferranti, Santoro, Mazzella, Monaco, & Morelli, 2009;Gori, Falcucci, Fubelli, Muto, & Dramis, 2016) leading to the formation of a composite NW-SE and N-S oriented back-thrust. Similar thrust geometries have been documented in the Ionian offshore of the northern Calabrian margin by Ferranti et al. (2009) consisting of an array of transpressional faults considered to be tectonically active (Gori et al., 2016). Structural analyses at outcrop and mesoscopic scale show that the upper Miocene back-thrust migrated progressively northwards from the Upper Tortonian. ...

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Giovanni Bertotti

Rinaldo Nicolich

Fabrizio Pepe

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... would force the assumption of an unreasonably variable uplift rate. Considering that the regional uplift is a consequence of large-scale tectonic and geodynamic processes (Caputo and Bianca, 2004;Ferranti et al., 2009;Santoro et al., 2009;Caputo et al., 2010), no such abrupt variations could be explained in the time span of few thousands of years. from Caputo, (2007) and references therein]. ...

New ESR ages for Piano San Nicola site, Gulf of Taranto, Italy

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Zuccarello A.R.

Riccardo Caputo

Anna Gueli

Sebastiano Olindo Troja

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... The Plio-Pleistocene succession and the carbonate bedrock are still involved in compressional deformation, mainly by left lateral strike slip faults connected to the southward migration of the Calabrian Arc ( Monaco et al. 2001). Along the coast, several orders of terraced Quaternary marine deposits (up to 7) are considered evidence of a rapid uplift, due to the activity of southeastern dipping normal faults ( Ferranti et al. 2009;Cucci 2004). ...

Multidisciplinary Methodology Used to Detect and Evaluate the Occurrence of Methane During Tunnel Design and Excavation: An Example from Calabria (Southern Italy)

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Salvatore Lombardi

Sabina BigiStefano SerangeliDavide De Angelis

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... The Ionian side of northern Calabria (including the Sibari Plain, the Sibari Gulf, the northeastern Sila Massif and its relative offshore) is a tectonically complex area joining the NW-SE-trending Southern Apennines with the NNE-SSW-trending curved Calabria . In this area, fossil-to-active NW-striking faults have been described both on-and off-shore (Brozzetti et al., 2009;Del Ben et al., 2008;Ferranti et al., 2009;Molin et al., 2004;Spina et al., 2009;Vignaroli et al., 2012). Paleoseismological research further confirms the presence of NW-striking faults with normalto-sinistral kinematics, and also suggests one of them as being the causative source of the magnitude 6.7 earthquake of June 1638 (Galli and Scionti, 2006). ...

Investigating slab edge kinematics through seismological data: The northern boundary of the Ionian subduction system (south Italy)

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Apr 2015J GEODYN

Barbara OrecchioDebora Presti

Cristina Totaro

Giancarlo Neri

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... The study of the kinematics and structural style of thrust sheets, as well as dating their emplacement, is crucial for understanding the tectonic architecture and evolution of orogenic chains. This task can be a challenge when the primary structures are not well exposed, such as the case of the southern Apennines, which has experienced a severe post-orogenic high-angle normal and strikeslip faulting starting from the Pleistocene [1][2][3][4][5]. This event produced the deposition at the toe of the mountains of a massive amount of talus during the Early-Middle Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles [6][7][8][9]. ...

Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Out-of-Sequence Thrusting in the Southern Apennines (Italy)

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Stefano Vitale

Ernesto Paolo Prinzi

Francesco D'Assisi Tramparulo

Sabatino Ciarcia

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... Breccia also locally fills open paleo-fractures within both the bedrock and the bioconstruction. Fracturing is possibly linked to fault-related seismic activity, due to the Quaternary tectonic uplift of this Calabrian sector, still active today (Antonioli et al. 2009;Ferranti et al. 2006Ferranti et al. , 2009. Clasts forming the breccia, derived from the metalimestone bedrock, vary from sub-angular to sub-rounded in shape and are poorly sorted, ranging in dimension from fine sand to blocks (Fig. 3c). ...

Mid-latitude coralgal bioconstruction and endolithic microbialites: environmental significance during Quaternary climate variations

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Oct 2015Facies

Maria Pia Bernasconi

Massimo Cefala

Edoardo Perri

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... It is reported that the Calabrian Arc has undergone continuous tectonic uplift since the mid-Pleistocene (Ghisetti, 1981;Dumas et al., 1982;Westaway, 1993), probably due to large-scale crustal shortening (Ferranti et al., 2009). However, the history of this regional uplift remains poorly constrained, particularly during the early stages of the uplift (Cucci and Cinti, 1998;Molin et al., 2002;Antonioli et al., 2006). ...

Climate forcing of terrigenous sediment input to the central Mediterranean Sea since the early Pleistocene

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Nov 2015PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL

Yulong Zhao

Christophe Colin

Zhifei Liu

Giuseppe Siani

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... Nella porzione mediana, la successione è costituita da torbiditi pelitico-arenacee passanti verso l'alto della formazione (Membro arenaceo) a un sub-sistema torbiditico localmente erosivo sui sottostanti depositi distali. Sull'Unità precedentemente descritte giacciono direttamente in discordanza i Depositi Marini Pleistocenici, rappresentati da sedimenti terrigeni infrapleistocenici e depositi conglomeratici dislocati in più ordini di terrazzati da strutture tettoniche orientate N-S ed NW-SE (Ferranti et al., 2009). ...

Calcolo della produzione di sedimenti nei bacini idrografici della F.ra Saraceno, T.te Pagliara e Avena, mediante il metodo di Gavrilović in ambiente GIS

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Carmine VaccaFelice Antonio CasuscelliAlessandra Di Bello

Rocco Dominici

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... Multiple superimposed fault trends have been identified in the Pollino massif area (e.g., Ghisetti and Vezzani, 1983), as can be expected in an area experiencing a change in tectonic regime (Ferranti et al., 2009). Northwest of the massif, northwest-striking normal faults become more prevalent and are the unequivocal expression of the postorogenic northeast-southwest extension regime of the Apennines (see also Fig. 2b). ...

An Intense Earthquake Swarm in the Southernmost Apennines: Fault Architecture from High-Resolution Hypocenters and Focal Mechanisms

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Oct 2015B SEISMOL SOC AM

Leonardo SeeberF. Waldhauser

Cristina TotaroDebora Presti

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... This interpretation is fairly consistent with the structural tectonic features evidenced by the seismic surveys (Finetti, 2005; Guarnieri, 2006; Del Ben et al., 2008) and is compatible with the major Quaternary tectonic deformation in that zone (Mantovani et al., 2006, 2009; Viti et al., 2011). The relative motion between the Calabrian wedge and the Apennine extruding belt (Fig. 1) is accommodated by the system of NW-SE sinistral strike-slip faults recognized in the Lucanian Apennines (e.g., Catalano et al., 2004; Viti et al., 2006; Caputo et al., 2008; Ferranti et al., 2009). To the south, this system is confined by the Palinuro fault (e.g., Finetti and Del Ben, 1986, 2005; Viti et al., 2006; Del Ben et al., 2008). ...

Where the next strong earthquake in the Italian peninsula? Insights by a deterministic approach

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Marcello Viti

E. Mantovani

Daniele Babbucci

Caterina Tamburelli

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... Being fault-bounded, the subsiding Sibari plain represents an anomaly in the regional tectonic frame of Calabria, which is characterized by strong uplift since the Middle Pleistocene and throughout the Holocene (Antonioli et al. 2006; Westaway 1993). The long-term Pleistocene regional Calabrian uplift is also documented in the Sibari site and, together with climate changes, led to variations in river regime and to the formation of stepped fossil alluvial fans, cropping out at the border of the plain as fossil alluvial fans (Figure 1) (Ferranti et al. 2009; Santoro et al. 2009). The landscape evolution across time has been driven by the interplay of different factors, such as the rate of glacioeustatic sea level rise, tectonic uplift, sedimentary accumulation, and bed-load fluvial discharge of the Crati and Coscile rivers. ...

Analysis of recent ground subsidence in the Sibari plain (Italy) by means of satellite SAR interferometry-based methods

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Silvia Bianchini

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... The Amendolara ridge, located off the northern Ionian margin (Fig. 5), is a NW-trending seabed feature 360 m high, 45 km long and 11 km wide, and lies at 25 to 60 m water depth (Ceramicola et al., 2014a). The growth of the Amendolara ridge was controlled by Pleistocene transpressional movements in the Apulian platform, which is buried beneath the fold-andthrust belt (Ferranti et al., 2009). The tip of the Amendolara ridge was subaerially exposed during the LGM. ...

Episodic, rapid sea-level rises on the central Mediterranean shelves after the Last Glacial Maximum: A review

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Sep 2015MAR GEOL

Emanuele Lodolo

Francesco Latino Chiocci

Massimo Zecchin

Silvia Ceramicola

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... In particular, such acceleration may have induced belt-parallel shortening in the outer sector of the Apennines, which has been accommodated by a roughly NE-ward extrusion of some shallow crustal wedges (i.e., Molise-Sannio, eastern sector of the Latium-Abruzzi platform, Romagna-Marche Umbria and Toscana-Emilia). In the southernmost (Lucanian) sector of the Southern Apennines, previous thrust zones have been dissected (since the late Pleistocene) by a system of NW-SE sinistral strike-slip faults, accompanied by compressional and tensional features at restraining and releasing step-overs respectively [64] [86] [96]. These processes may identify the activation of a sinistral strike-slip fault system which has accommodated the relative motion between the Molise-Sannio wedge, extruding roughly NE ward, and the Calabrian wedge, extruding roughly eastward (Figure 6). ...

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Marcello Viti

E. Mantovani

Daniele Babbucci

Caterina Tamburelli

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... The main thrust lines of the Maghrebian-Apennine thrust belt and subduction system are also indicated (after Milia and Torrente, 2014). Bottom right square indicates area enlarged in B. B): Tectonic sketch map of the Calabrian subduction system and its main structural components (based on Van Dijk et al., 2000;Ferranti et al., 2009;Minelli and Faccenna, 2010;Polonia et al., 2011). Small shaded rectangle labeled C indicates the Crotone Peninsula, enlarged in C. C) Simplified geological map of the southern part of the Crotone peninsula, with the five orders of terraces identified by Zecchin et al. (2004). ...

Morpho-structural heterogeneity of shallow-water coralligenous in a Pleistocene marine Terrace (Le Castella, Italy)

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Apr 2016PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL

Valentina Alice BracchiRonald Nalin

Daniela Basso

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... Around the middle Pleistocene ( Fig. 6), the deformation pattern in the Apennines underwent an important change, recognized by most authors (e.g., Hippolyte et al., 1994;Galadini, 1999;Bartolini, 2003;Piccardi et al., 2006): -Strike-slip tectonics has developed in the southernmost (Lucanian) sector of the Southern Apennines, with the formation of a system of NW-SE sinistral strike-slip faults, accompanied by compressional and tensional features at restraining and releasing stepovers respectively (e.g. Cello et al., 2003;Catalano et al., 2004;Maschio et al., 2005;Ferranti et al., 2009). -In the northern sector of the Southern Apennines, from the Irpinia to Matese zones, a system of normal faults roughly trending NW-SE has developed in the axial part of the belt (e.g., Ascione et al., 2003Ascione et al., , 2007Brozzetti, 2011). ...

Seismotectonic implications of transversal discontinuities in the Apennine belt

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Jan 2012

E. Mantovani

Marcello Viti

Daniele Babbucci

Nicola Cenni

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... The uplift was locally accommodated by repeated displacement along the major active faults (Monaco & Tortorici, 2000;Catalano et al., 2003). Pulsating tectonics and recent and active transpressional tectonics is documented on the eastern calabrian margin by Ferranti et al., 2009. The Crotone basin is bounded to the north and to the south by two NW-trending left-lateral shear zones, called Rossano-San Nicola fault and Petilia-Sosti fault respectively (Meulenkamp et al., 1986;Van Dijk, 1990Van Dijk & Okkes, 1991), and is currently separated from the Crotone-Spartivento basin by some thrust fronts (Fig. 2). ...

A Neogene-Quaternary Geotraverse within the northern Calabrian Arc from the foreland peri-Ionian margin to the backarc Tyrrhenian margin

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Salvatore Critelli

Francesco Perri

Francesco Muto

Gaetano Robustelli

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... Basin infill began in Middle Miocene times, resulting in a stratigraphic succession as thick as 2500 m, overlying the metamorphic basement of the Sila Massif (Zecchin et al., 2004(Zecchin et al., , 2012. Basin evolution includes five subsidence-uplift events during a dominant extensional and subtle transpressional tectonic history (Van Dijk and Scheepers, 1995;Van Dijk et al., 2000;Ferranti et al., 2009). Eventually, the onset of regional uplift since Middle Pleistocene times, led to the cessation of sedimentation and at the same time to the exhumation and surface exposure of the sedimentary succession (Knott and Turco, 1991;Antonioli et al., 2006;Zecchin et al., 2012;Massari and Prosser, 2013). ...

Displacement-dependent microstructural and petrophysical properties of deformation bands and gouges in poorly lithified sandstone deformed at shallow burial depth (Crotone Basin, Italy)

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Apr 2020J STRUCT GEOL

Mattia Pizzati

F. Balsamo

Fabrizio Storti

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... See text for discussion.Casnedi et al., 1982;Ricchetti et al., 1988;Patacca and Scandone, 1989;Doglioni et al., 1994Doglioni et al., , 1996Menardi Noguera and Rea, 2000]. Enduring convergence between Apennines and Dinarides[Bertotti et al., 2001;Basili and Barba, 2007]and persisting compressional‐transpressional conditions during Quaternary[Philip, 1987;Console et al., 1989;Pieri et al., 1997;Turco and Zuppetta, 1998;Doglioni et al., 1999a;Mantovani et al., 2002;Catalano et al., 2004;Scrocca et al., 2005;Serpelloni et al., 2005Serpelloni et al., , 2007Viti et al., 2006;Bennett et al., 2008;Del Ben et al., 2008;Nardo, 2007;Ferranti et al., 2008Ferranti et al., , 2009likely caused an external and deeper jump of the convergence‐related shear zone, therefore shifting large crustal volumes of Adria Plate from the footwall to the hanging wall block. This process caused a progressive thickening of the crust[Doglioni et al., 1999b;Chiarabba et al., 2008;Steckler et al., 2008]and a partial duplexing as supported by geophysical information at depth and suggested by different authors[Menardi Noguera and Rea, 2000;Van Dijk et al., 2000;Mazzotti et al., 2000;Scrocca et al., 2005;Finetti et al., 2005;Solarino and Cassinis, 2007]. ...

Morphological evidence of Late Quaternary thrusting in the Bradanic Foredeep

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Jan 2005

M. Bianca

Riccardo Caputo

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... The relative motion between the outward extruding Calabrian wedge (at the expense of the Ionian domain, and the Molise-Sannio wedge (moving roughly NE ward, in connection with Adria) is accommodated by the system of NW-SE sinistral strike-slip faults recognized in the Lucanian Apennines (e.g., Catalano et al. 2004;Ferranti et al. 2009). ...

Recognition of periAdriatic Seismic Zones Most Prone to Next Major Earthquakes: Insights from a Deterministic Approach

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Sep 2016

Marcello VitiVittorio D’Intinosante

E. Mantovani

Daniele Babbucci

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... A southwestward increase of the uplift rates of the Pleistocene marine terraces along the western coast of the Taranto Gulf was recognized (Cucci and Cinti, 1998), which indicates regional eastward tilting up to the Sibari plain. Large-scale uplift along the northern Taranto Gulf was ascribed by Ferranti et al. (2009) to crustal-scale folding that was superimposed by short-wavelength and low-amplitude undulations due to growing folds within transpressional tectonics. Caputo et al. (2010) interpreted the different scales of tilting that have been recognized in the same area as being due to different scales of deformations (i.e., crustal and lithospheric contraction, basal detachment of the external Apennine wedge and reactivation of out-of-sequence thrusts). ...

Seismic evidence of the rebound of the Adria foreland and the current geodynamics of the Central and Southern Apennines (Italy)

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Jun 2016J GEODYN

Anna Del Ben

Francesca Oggioni

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... The deposits are constituted of conglomerates, sandstones and mixed arenites mostly belonging to deltaic and coastal deposits (Carobene & Damiani, 1985;Colella, 1988;Colella, De Boer, & Nio, 1987;Fabbricatore et al., 2014) and compare to the same coeval successions of other basins bordering the eastern and southern margins of the Sila Massif Longhitano, Chiarella, & Muto, 2014;Muto et al., 2015;Zecchin et al., 2012Zecchin et al., , 2013aZecchin et al., , 2013bZecchin et al., , 2015. Starting from Middle Pleistocene, northern Calabria experienced a marked uplift (Tortorici, 1981;Westaway, 1993) that caused the deformation of the Lower Pleistocene deposits and the accumulation of a 40 m thick succession of fluvial conglomerate well exposed in the western margin of the Crati Basin; a comparable stratigraphic succession is found on the eastern side of the Sila Massif Robustelli et al., 2009 Spina, & Critelli, 2003;Robustelli, Muto, Scarciglia, Spina, & Critelli, 2005) and of the eastern Sila margin (Carobene, 2003;Ferranti, Santoro, Mazzella, Monaco, & Morelli, 2009;Molin, Dramis, Lupia, & Palmieri, 2002;Robustelli et al., 2009). Holocene alluvial fan deposits crop out in the Crati River valley and along the subsidiary transverse valleys. ...

Seismotectonics and landslides of the Crati Graben (Calabrian Arc, Southern Italy)

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Aug 2016J MAPS

C. TansiMichele Folino Gallo

Francesco Muto

Salvatore Critelli

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... This region is located on the north-eastern tip of the Calabrian arc, which lies above the westerlyplunging Ionian slab, and a combination of lithospheric and crustal processes concurred to rapid Late Quaternary uplift. FERRANTI et al. (2009) andSANTORO et al. (2009) mapped ten terrace orders up to 663 m a.s.l., correlated between the coastal slopes of Pollino range across the Sibari Plain, facing the Ionian Sea side of north-eastern Calabria and eastern Basilicata. Based on the terrace chronology, uplift along the Pollino coastal range, in the last ~600 ka, occurred at an average rate of 1 mm/a, but was characterized by the alternation of more rapid (~2.2 mm/a) and slower (~0.7 mm/a) periods of displacement. ...

Detecting and modeling active structures in northern Calabria: New insights from drainage network morphometric analysis

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Luigi Ferranti

Carmelo Monaco

Pierfrancesco BurratoE. Santoro

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... The shallow subsurface structure of the AR is represented by broad folds that form the core of three 13-8 km long marine banks topping the ridge. The area was affected by Mid to Late Quaternary transpression that is marked by the development of syn-sedimentary growth faults (Ferranti et al., 2009;Ferranti et al., 2014), and local accumulation of debris flow and slump deposits (Ceramicola et al., 2014). ...

Seismic stratigraphy of upper Quaternary shallow-water contourite drifts in the Gulf of Taranto (Ionian Sea, southern Italy)

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Dec 2017MAR GEOL

Fabrizio Pepe

Valentino Di Donato

Donatella Insinga

Salvatore Passaro

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... The SP is bounded by the Sila Massif southward and the Pollino Massif northward (Fig. 1). From the structural point of view, the plain-massifs boundary is marked by dislocations related to the Pliocene-Holocene high angle faults whose recent activity is still a matter of debate (Cucci, 2004;Ferranti et al., 2009;Lanzafame and Tortorici, 1981;Molin et al., 2004). Lanzafame and Tortorici (1981) suggest the existence of NE-SW normal faults in the middle of the plain; evidences of a NE-SW fault zone with recent activity have been observed as coseismic features in the Sybaris archaeological settlement by Cinti et al. (2015) and in geophysical acquisitions by Cianflone et al. (2018). ...

A multidisciplinary approach for sustainable management of a complex coastal plain: The case of Sibari Plain (Southern Italy)

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Jun 2019MAR PETROL GEOL

Giovanni Vespasiano

Andrea Romanazzi

Giuseppe Cianflone

Rosanna De Rosa

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... Around the middle Pleistocene ( Fig. 6), the deformation pattern in the Apennines underwent an important change, recognized by most authors (e.g., Hippolyte et al., 1994;Galadini, 1999;Bartolini, 2003;Piccardi et al., 2006): -Strike-slip tectonics has developed in the southernmost (Lucanian) sector of the Southern Apennines, with the formation of a system of NW-SE sinistral strike-slip faults, accompanied by compressional and tensional features at restraining and releasing stepovers respectively (e.g. Cello et al., 2003;Catalano et al., 2004;Maschio et al., 2005;Ferranti et al., 2009). -In the northern sector of the Southern Apennines, from the Irpinia to Matese zones, a system of normal faults roughly trending NW-SE has developed in the axial part of the belt (e.g., Ascione et al., 2003Ascione et al., , 2007Brozzetti, 2011). ...

Geodynamics of the central-western Mediterranean region: Plausible and non-plausible driving forces

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Nov 2019MAR PETROL GEOL

E. Mantovani

Marcello Viti

Daniele Babbucci

Nicola Cenni

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... 1.2-1.1 Ma) (Fig. 27), which is generally associated with sinistral transpression along the NW-trending Pollino fault system (Zecchin et al., 2012Massari and Prosser, 2013). The Pollino fault sytem is interpreted as a sinistral lithospheric tear (Knott and Turco, 1991) representing the boundary between the Apulian continental margin and the subducting Ionian slab (Del Ben et al., 2008;Ferranti et al., 2009Ferranti et al., , 2014. It allowed the differential motion between the Calabrian Arc and the southern Apennines after the continental collision along the southern Apenninic front (Patacca et al., 1990;Knott and Turco, 1991;Cinque et al., 1993;Hippolyte et al., 1994;Van Dijk and Scheepers, 1995;Monaco et al., 1998;Scandone, 2001, 2007). ...

Sedimentary evolution of the Neogene-Quaternary Crotone Basin (southern Italy) and relationships with large-scale tectonics: A sequence stratigraphic approach

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Apr 2020MAR PETROL GEOL

Dario Civile

Mauro CaffauSilvia Ceramicola

Massimo Zecchin

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... -Several authors (Cello et al., 1997;Piccardi et al., 2006;Elter et al., 2012) suggest that the Quaternary tectonic setting in the Northern Apennines can be plausibly explained as an effect of belt-parallel compression. In particular, the large tectonic window, extending from the Sillaro to the Marecchia tectonic belts, results from the erosion of the 2-4 km of the overlying Ligurian units, which is mostly interpreted as an effect of local crustal thickening induced by belt parallel shortening and upward flexure, that accelerated since the middle Pleistocene (e.g., Cerrina Feroni et al., 2001;Boccaletti and Martelli, 2004; 2010) -The system of transcurrent faults clearly recognized in the Lucanian Apennines (e.g., Catalano et al., 2004;Ferranti et al., 2009) is compatible with the proposed relative motion between the Molise-Sannio wedge and the Calabrian arc ( Fig. 1). -As argued by Viti et al. (2006), Tamburelli et al. (2000) and Mantovani et al. (2009), the location and timing of the abundant Pleistocene volcanism in the Roman and Neapolitan magmatic provinces (Peccerillo, 2005) is fairly compatible with the transtensional regime induced in those areas by the outward escape of the Molise-Sannio and Romagna-Marche-Umbria wedges. ...

Seismotectonics and present seismic hazard in the Tuscany-Romagna-Marche-Umbria Apennines (Italy)

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Jun 2015J GEODYN

Nicola Cenni

E. Mantovani

Marcello Viti

Vittorio D 'Intinosante

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Present Tectonic Setting and Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Seismicity in the Apennine Belt

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Jan 2015IJG

E. Mantovani

Marcello Viti

Daniele Babbucci