Active deformation in the frontal part of the Northern Apennines: insights from the lower Metauro River basin area (northern Marche, Italy) and adjacent Adriatic off-shore

Bucci, Daniela Di; Mazzoli, Stefano; Nesci, Olivia; Savelli, Daniele; Tramontana, Mario; Donatis, Mauro De; Borraccini, F.

doi:10.1016/s0264-3707(03)00048-6

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“…In the Adriatic piedmont, wide consequent valleys developed since the Middle Pleistocene, characterised by a series of fluvial and alluvial fan terraces (Demangeot, 1965;Bisci and Dramis, 1991;Coltorti et al, 1991;Nesci and Savelli, 1991;Fanucci et al, 1996). In this framework, the role of Quaternary tectonics in the evolution of the landscape and in drainage development is still debated (Rapisardi, 1982;Coltorti et al, 1996;Bigi et al, 1997;Di Bucci et al, 2003;Mayer et al, 2003;Frankel and Pazzaglia, 2005;Molin and Fubelli, 2005).…”

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Morphotectonic study of the lower Sangro River valley (Abruzzi, Central Italy)

2008

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Morphotectonic study of the lower Sangro River valley (Abruzzi, Central Italy)

2008

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“…A marked erosional surface is present between these deposits and the mainly gravelly sediments of Sicilian age: moreover numerous evidences of synsedimentary extensional tectonics are found. Sicilian deposits, currently present up to about 10 km from the Adriatic Sea, show eastern dip: this is due partly to depositional conditions (clinostratigraphy) and partly to the tilting connected with vertical uplifting and the compressive tectonics which are still active along the Adriatic coast (Riguzzi et al 1989;Di Bucci et al 2003).…”

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“…Moreover, the main rivers which transversally cut the region from the Apennine chain to the Adriatic Sea, created (Calamita et al 1994;Gentili & Pambianchi 1994;Gentili et al 1995 and1998;Dramis et al 1995;Aringoli et al 1996;Fanucci et al 1996;Di Bucci et al 2003;Aringoli et al 2010):…”

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Pliocene –Pleistocene geomorphological evolution of the Adriatic side of Central Italy

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Pambianchi²,

Aringoli³

et al. 2017

Geologica Carpathica

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This work is a significant contribution to knowledge of the Quaternary and pre-Quaternary morphogenesis of a wide sector of central Italy, from the Apennine chain to the Adriatic Sea. The goal is achieved through a careful analysis and interpretation of stratigraphic and tectonic data relating to marine and continental sediments and, mostly, through the study of relict limbs of ancient landscapes (erosional surfaces shaped by prevailing planation processes). The most important scientific datum is the definition of the time span in which the modelling of the oldest morphological element (the "summit relict surface") occurred: it started during Messinian in the westernmost portion and after a significant phase during middle-late Pliocene, ended in the early Pleistocene. During the middle and late Pleistocene, the rapid tectonic uplift of the area and the climate fluctuations favoured the deepening of the hydrographic network and the genesis of three orders of fluvial terraces, thus completing the fundamental features of the landscape. The subsequent Holocene evolution reshaped the minor elements, but not the basic ones.

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“…Thrust-faults affected a Meso-Cenozoic mainly carbonate and marly-carbonate multilayer and propagated upward and north-eastward into the overlying Mio-Plio-Pleistocene hemipelagic, turbiditic and evaporitic units (Mazzoli, Deiana, Galdenzi, & Cello, 2002) (Figure 1). Strike-slip faults, ranging from north-south (oblique) to east-west (transversal), dissect the overall northwest-southeast-oriented fold-and-thrust structural pattern (Di Bucci et al, 2003).…”

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Geomorphological map of the Montelago area (North Marche Apennines, central Italy): constrains for two relict lakes

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The hamlet of Montelago ('Mountain of the Lake') lies within the northern Marche Apennines close to the watershed of Fosso del Lago ('Stream of the Lake'): both Italian toponyms clearly suggest the presence of a paleolake. Official geological maps reported lacustrine sediments within the upper basin of the Fosso del Lago stream, where outcrops of lacustrine sediments have also been noted for about five decades. The nineteenthcentury Gregorian cadastral map also reports water ponds roughly in the area where lacustrine sediments were found: nonetheless, their position is clearly shifted upstream with respect to the reported lacustrine sediments. In this context, we have recently performed a targeted geomorphological survey addressed at unravelling such apparent discrepancy. Our study confirms the occurrence of lacustrine sediments spanning from Atlantic up to Sub-Boreal exactly in the place reported by previous geological works. The detailed geomorphological map created for the area allowed us to adequately locate previously published subsurface prospecting both highlighting landslide damming as the process responsible for lake formation and providing information for an adequate morphoevolutive reconstruction of the area. Geomorphological mapping also resolved the problem of the different position of the ponds mapped by the Gregorian Cadastre, stating that these had no direct relationships with the former lake but rather consisted of a small man-made reservoir directly connected by broad channels to springs which are currently dried-out.

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Active deformation in the frontal part of the Northern Apennines: insights from the lower Metauro River basin area (northern Marche, Italy) and adjacent Adriatic off-shore

Cited by 28 publications

References 30 publications

Morphotectonic study of the lower Sangro River valley (Abruzzi, Central Italy)

Morphotectonic study of the lower Sangro River valley (Abruzzi, Central Italy)

Pliocene –Pleistocene geomorphological evolution of the Adriatic side of Central Italy

Geomorphological map of the Montelago area (North Marche Apennines, central Italy): constrains for two relict lakes

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