Stefano Mazzoli

TL;DR: The central Apennines fault system (CAFS) of peninsular Italy, overprints earlier structures of a Neogene fold and thrust belt and includes segments characterized by diffuse seismicity distributed within a NNW-SSE-trending zone, 50 km wide as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed relative motion picture for the Neogene Africa-Europe plate kinematics is presented using the finite difference solution between the rotation parameters determined for Anomalies 7 to 2 in the Africa-North America -Europe plate motion circuit, showing a motion of Africa with respect to Europe which is NNE directed during Late Oligocene to Burdigalian times, becoming NNW trending from the Langhian to the early Tortonian; from upper Tortonian times onward, the motion changes to a clear north-west directed convergence.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of deformation pattern templates from fold-and-thrust data in foreland fold and thrust-belts is provided, showing that the most frequent treelines of sub-seismic syn-orogenic deformation structures are hosted in km-scale thrust-related folds frequently and indicate a syn-thresholding strike-slip stress.

TL;DR: In this paper, the contrasts between thin-skinned and deep-rooting, inversion-dominated deformation in building fold-thrust complexes are investigated using a case history from the Italian Apennines.

TL;DR: The southern Apennines thrust system developed in Late Cretaceous to Quaternary times in response to deformation processes induced by the convergence between the African and European plates as mentioned in this paper.