Geology of the Aventino River Valley (eastern Majella, central Italy)

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Geology of the Aventino River Valley (eastern Majella, central Italy)

Andrea Festa¹, Cristina Accotto¹, Francesco Coscarelli¹, Elisabetta Malerba¹, Giulia Palazzin¹ - Show less +1 more•Institutions (1)

University of Turin¹

29 May 2014-Journal of Maps (ATTUALE: Taylor & Francis Limited:Rankine Road, Basingstoke RG24 8PR United Kingdom:011 44 1256 813035, EMAIL: madeline.sims@tandf.co.uk, info@tandf.co.uk, INTERNET: http://www.tandf.co.uk, Fax: 011 44 1256 330245 PRECEDENTE: Stockholm; Oslo: Scandinavian University Press Scandinavian University Press.)-Vol. 10, Iss: 4, pp 1-1

TL;DR: The map of the Aventino River Valley, at 1:25,000 scale, provides original mapping of the outermost sector of Central Apennines in the Abruzzi region as mentioned in this paper.

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Abstract: The Apenninic fold-and-thrust belt in Italy represents one of several interconnected circum-Mediterranean orogens developed after the Late Cretaceous – early Cenozoic closure of Tethys and convergence between the European and African plates. The Geological Map of the Aventino River Valley, at 1:25,000 scale, provides original mapping of the outermost sector of Central Apennines in the Abruzzi region. Focusing on detailed mapping of the crosscutting relationships between the main regional thrust faults and tectonically driven stratigraphic unconformities, the map describes the complex structural and stratigraphic relationships between the Outer Abruzzi units (i.e. Porrara Unit), Apulia – Adriatic deformed units (i.e. Majella and Casoli Units), and the allochthonous Molise and Sicilide units. These tectono-stratigraphic relationships result from four main tectonic stages that occurred sequentially over a short time interval from late Messinian to early Pliocene.

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University of Turin¹, University of Parma², University of Trieste³, Miami University⁴, University of Oviedo⁵

01 Nov 2016-Gondwana Research

TL;DR: A comparative analysis of the occurrences and internal structures of these sedimentary melanges at a global scale with a focus on the Circum-Mediterranean, Appalachian and Circum Pacific regions is presented in this paper.

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Diagnostic features and field-criteria in recognition of tectonic, sedimentary and diapiric mélanges in orogenic belts and exhumed subduction-accretion complexes

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University of Turin¹, University of Trieste², VU University Amsterdam³, Miami University⁴

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University of Bergen¹, Royal Holloway, University of London²

17 Jul 2020-Geological Society, London, Special Publications

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated damage zones of different fault types in siliciclastics (Utah, USA), carbonates (Majella Mountain, Italy) and metamorphic rocks (western Norway).

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Abstract: Abstract Damage zones of different fault types are investigated in siliciclastics (Utah, USA), carbonates (Majella Mountain, Italy) and metamorphic rocks (western Norway). The study was conducted taking measurements of deformation features such as fractures and deformation bands on multiple 1D scanlines along fault walls. The resulting datasets are used to plot the frequency distribution of deformation features and to constrain the geometrical width of the damage zone for the studied faults. The damage-zone width of a single fault is constrained by identifying the changes in the slope of cumulative plots made on the frequency data. The cumulative plot further shows high deformation frequency by a steep slope (inner damage zone) and less deformation as a gentle slope (outer damage zone). Statistical distributions of displacement and damage-zone width and their relationship are improved, and show two-slope power-law distributions with a break point at c. 100 m displacement. Bleached sandstones in the studied siliciclastic rocks of Utah are associated with a higher frequency of deformation bands and a wider damage zone compared to the unbleached zone of similar lithology. Fault damage zones in the carbonate rocks of Majella are often host to open fractures (karst), demonstrating that they can also be conductive to fluid flow.

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Spanish National Research Council¹, Centre national de la recherche scientifique²

01 Feb 2016-Journal of Hydrology

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Geology of the Southern Apennines

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Etta Patacca, Paolo Scandone

01 Jan 2007

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a concise description of the geology of the Southern Apennines especially useful for readers having scarce familiarity with this complex region, and present a simplified geological-structural map to keep in mind the key points of the regional framework.

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Abstract: This paper aims to provide a concise description of the geology of the Southern Apennines especially useful for readers having scarce familiarity with this complex region. The text is divided into tour parts: - Brief introduction to the geology of the Southern Apennines in which the general outlines of the thrust belt-foredeep-foreland system are given together with a general description of the internal structural architecture of the mountain chain; of the paleogeographic models existing in the geological literature and discussion of the basic criteria used for the palinspastic restoration of the Apennine depositional domains proposed in this paper; - Synthetic description of the Apennine tectonic units and of the Neogene-Quaternary thrust-sheet-top deposits cropping out in the study area and discussion on the available structural and stratigraphic information constraining the time-space reconstruction of the tectonic deformation; - Short illustration of the principal steps describing the kinematic evolution of the thrust belt-foredeep-foreland system from the early Miocene to the end of the early Pleistocene. The enclosed simplified geological-structural map will help the reader to keep in mind without difficulties the key points of the regional framework. Selected references on the single tectonic unit or thrust-sheet-top deposit have been provided at the end of each paragraph, with the aim of assisting the reader who wanted to tackle the Apennine geological problems by navigating through the numerous controversies and internal inconsistencies of the current literature.

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"Geology of the Aventino River Valle..." refers background in this paper

...…Lazio-Abruzzi and Campania-Lucania platform, and the Apulia-Adriatic platform) and intervening pelagic basins: the Ligurian and Sicilide basins, to the West, and the Lagonegro, Sannio and Molise basins, to the East (e.g. Ciarapica & Passeri, 2002; Patacca & Scandone, 2007; Vezzani et al., 2010)....
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...The Sicilide Units (Complesso Sicilide of Ogniben, 1960) represent internal units originally deposited in a Tethys-facing basin (see e.g. Ogniben, 1960; Patacca & Scandone, 2007; Vezzani et al., 2010 cum biblio; see Figure 2)....
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...…La Corte, & Sciarra, 2013; see also the unpublished internal report of the ‘Task Force Majella’ project, see ENI E&P, 2000) and regional scale (e.g. Patacca & Scandone, 2007; Servizio Geologico d’Italia, 1970; Vezzani, Casnedi, & Ghisetti, 1993; Vezzani & Ghisetti, 1998; Vezzani, Ghisetti, &…...
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...…the Sicilide Units overlie a complex imbricate tectonic edifice consisting of N-verging and NE-to ENE-verging platform carbonate-to-basinal thrust sheets (Matese, Sannio, Molise, Majella and Casoli units; see, e.g. Ghisetti & Vezzani, 1997; Patacca & Scandone, 2007; Vezzani et al., 1998, 2010)....
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...…1993; Ghisetti, Vezzani, & Follador, 1993; Iadanza, Sampalmieri, Cipollari, Mola, & Cosentino, 2013; Mutti, Bernoulli, Eberli, & Vecsei, 1996; Patacca & Scandone, 2007; Rusciadelli & Ricci, 2008; Rustichelli, Tondi, Agosta, Cilona, & Giorgioni, 2012; Rustichelli, Tondi, Agosta, Di Celma, &…...
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Structural architecture of the central Apennines: Interpretation of the CROP 11 seismic profile from the Adriatic coast to the orographic divide

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Etta Patacca¹, Paolo Scandone¹, Emiliano Di Luzio, Gian Paolo Cavinato, Maurizio Parotto - Show less +1 more•Institutions (1)

University of Pisa¹

01 Jun 2008-Tectonics

TL;DR: In this article, an interpretation of the eastern half portion of the CROP 11 line, a deep reflection seismic profile 265 km long that cuts across the central Apennines from the Tyrrhenian coast to the Adriatic coast, is presented.

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Abstract: [1] We present an interpretation of the eastern half portion of the CROP 11 line, a deep reflection seismic profile 265 km long that cuts across the central Apennines from the Tyrrhenian coast to the Adriatic coast In the study area the line cuts across a pile of thrust sheets that underwent tectonic transport between the Messinian and the Pleistocene In its easternmost part, the line runs through the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of the Adriatic foredeep In the foreland region the CROP 11 line integrates previous information on the crustal structure derived from petroleum exploration and from deep seismic sounding refraction experiments In particular, the CROP 11 line confirms the existence of a very thick sedimentary sequence underlying the Mesozoic-Tertiary carbonates of the Apulia Platform interpreted as the Paleozoic-Triassic sedimentary cover of a pre-Cambrian crystalline basement In the mountain chain, where the base thrust of the orogenic wedge reaches a depth of about 25 km, this sedimentary sequence appears to be the deepest geological unit incorporated in the thrust system This interpretation of the CROP 11 profile suggests an unusual thin-skin tectonic style implying the detachment from the original basement and the incorporation in the post-Tortonian tectonic wedge of a very thick Paleozoic-Triassic sedimentary sequence possibly affected by low-grade metamorphism in the lower part Other new suggestions from the CROP 11 seismic data concern the origin of the Fucino basin, one of the most remarkable Plio-Pleistocene intramontane basins The normal faults bordering this structural depression, as other important normal faults present in the central Apennines (eg, the Caramanico fault system in the Majella region), seem to have been controlled by gravitational-collapse processes driven by uplift during crustal shortening rather than by a generalized extension subsequent to the Apennine compression, as usually reported in the geological literature If this interpretation is correct, the strong seismic activity in correspondence to the Apennine watershed may be related to the very recent increase in the structural relief caused by an out-of-sequence propagation of the active thrusts

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Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

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Andrea Festa¹, Gian Andrea Pini², Yildirim Dilek¹, Giulia Codegone³•Institutions (3)

Miami University¹, University of Bologna², University of Turin³

10 Feb 2010-International Geology Review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a historical overview of the evolving melange concept and investigate the relationships between melange types and their tectonic settings of formation, investigating the contribution of mass-transport versus contractional deformation processes at the onset of melange formation and throughout the evolution of different melange type.

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Abstract: Melanges represent a significant component of collisional and accretionary orogenic belts and occur widely around the world. Since its first introduction and use, the term has evolved to cover both processes (tectonic, sedimentary, and diapiric) and tectonic settings of melange formation. The meaning and significance of various terms referring to the origin of ‘block-in-matrix chaotic rocks’ are still subject to debate. This study presents a historical overview of the evolving melange concept and investigates the relationships between melange types and their tectonic settings of formation. We investigate the contribution of mass-transport versus contractional deformation processes at the onset of melange formation and throughout the evolution of different melange types, and the nature of the continuum and transition from broken formations to true tectonic melanges. A melange is a mappable chaotic body of mixed rocks with a block-in-matrix fabric whose internal structure and evolution are intimately linked...

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"Geology of the Aventino River Valle..." refers background in this paper

...…the Argille varicolori mainly represent a broken formation as in the External Ligurian Units of the Northern Apennines (see also Codegone, Festa, Dilek, & Pini, 2012; Festa & Codegone, 2013; Festa, Dilek, Pini, Codegone, & Ogata, 2012; Festa, Pini, Dilek, & Codegone, 2010a; Festa et al., 2010b)....
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Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Central-Southern Apennines, Italy

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Livio Vezzani, Andrea Festa, Francesca Ghisetti

01 Jun 2010

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"Geology of the Aventino River Valle..." refers background in this paper

...It consists of an N-S striking and double plunging anticline, representing the outermost and northernmost outcrops of the Apulia-Adriatic deformed foreland (e.g. Vezzani et al., 2010 and reference therein)....
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...In particular, the E-W and N-S faults mainly correspond to early, pre-folding, structures as suggested by their passive rotation that accompanies the increase of bedding dip on the eastern limb of the regional anticline (e.g. Figure 7(E)) to the East of Taranta Peligna village (see also faults West of Fara S. Martino; see Aydin, Antonellini, Tondi, & Agosta, 2010; Masini et al., 2011; Scisciani et al., 2000 for major details)....
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...…Lazio-Abruzzi and Campania-Lucania platform, and the Apulia-Adriatic platform) and intervening pelagic basins: the Ligurian and Sicilide basins, to the West, and the Lagonegro, Sannio and Molise basins, to the East (e.g. Ciarapica & Passeri, 2002; Patacca & Scandone, 2007; Vezzani et al., 2010)....
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...The subsequent late Oligocene-early Pleistocene thrust accretion is shown by the East and Northeast migration of the Liguride and Sicilide units, up to the contractional deformation of the westernmost part of the Apulia-Adriatic continental margin (Adria microplate; e.g. Majella, Casoli, Porrara, Porrara)....
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...…Unit, that represents a platform carbonate-to-basinal succession originally located at the inner margin of the Adriatic-Apulia continental margin (e.g. Vezzani et al., 2010 and reference therein; see Figure 2), is exposed along a narrow NNW-SSE ridge in the southwestern sector of the mapped area....
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Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: Redefining and classifying mélanges

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Andrea Festa¹, Yildirim Dilek¹, Yildirim Dilek², Gian Andrea Pini³, Giulia Codegone⁴, Giulia Codegone¹, Kei Ogata⁵ - Show less +3 more•Institutions (5)

University of Turin¹, Miami University², University of Bologna³, Polytechnic University of Turin⁴, University Centre in Svalbard⁵

28 Sep 2012-Tectonophysics

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of stratal disruption and mixing processes shows that there exists a continuum of deformation structures and processes in the generation of melanges and broken formations directly controlled by the increase of the degree of consolidation with burial.

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"Geology of the Aventino River Valle..." refers background in this paper

...However, along the main thrusts, meters-to-tens of meters wide exotic blocks (i.e. extra-formational origin; see Festa et al., 2012) occur, forming a tectonic mélange (Figure 5(B))....
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