Effects of uplift and tilting in the Central-Northern Apennines (Italy)

Centamore, E.; Nisio, Stefania

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(02)00092-7

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“…While thrusting continues today on the Adriatic margin of the mountain chain (Patacca et al, 1990;Pizzi, 2003;Centamore & Nisio, 2003) a zone of extension has formed behind the compressional front since the late Pliocene (ca. ~ 3 Ma) (Fig.…”

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Characterising the origin, nature and fate of sediment exported from catchments perturbed by active tectonics

2009

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Changes to the tectonic boundary conditions governing erosional dynamics in upland catchments have a significant effect on the nature and magnitude of sediment supply to neighbouring basins. While these links have been explored in detail by numerical models of landscape evolution, there has been relatively little work to quantify the timing, characteristics and locus of sediment release from upland catchments in response to changing tectonic boundary conditions that are well-constrained independently. We address this challenge by quantifying the volume and

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Characterising the origin, nature and fate of sediment exported from catchments perturbed by active tectonics

2009

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“…The interconnection between extrusion and uplift depends upon the configuration of the lithospheric bodies confining the stressed orogenic system and by the rheological properties of the ductile layers involved [Meissner and Mooney, 1998]. The strong uplift that the northern Apennines has undergone in the Pleistocene [e.g., Bartolini, 2003;Centamore and Nisio, 2003] might be interpreted as an effect of shortening and thickening of the ductile layers induced by the proposed belt-parallel compression. In particular, the combination of brittle extrusion in the upper crust and ductile thickening of the lower crust might explain a quite peculiar feature of the inner Apenninic belt, i.e., the contemporaneous occurrence of extensional tectonics and uplift.…”

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“…When a K appears in first position, the strain pattern has been mainly obtained from summation of seismic moment tensor (Figure 2b). Numbers correspond to the papers from which information has been taken: 1 [Carulli et al, 1990]; 2 Bressan et al, 1998]; 3 [Castellarin and Cantelli, 2000]; 4 [Slejko et al, 1999]; 5 [Ghiselli and Martelli, 1997]; 6 ; 7 [Bernini, 1988]; 8 [Sorgi et al, 1998]; 9 [Bonini and Sani, 2002]; 10 ; 11 [Bonini, 1999]; 12 [Bonini, 1998]; 13 [Boncio et al, 2000]; 14 [Sagnotti et al, 1999]; 15 [Centamore and Nisio, 2003]; 16 [Calamita and Deiana, 1986]; 17 [Piccardi et al, 1999]; 18 [De Feyter and Delle Rose, 2002]; 19 [Castellarin et al, 1982]; 20 [Costa, 2003]; 21 [Cattaneo et al, 1986]. The length of symbols is normalized to the largest principal strain computed in each point of the grid and thus only reflects the strain regime, i.e., the ratio between shortening and lengthening.…”

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Driving mechanism of tectonic activity in the northern Apennines: Quantitative insights from numerical modeling

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[1] It is shown, by numerical modeling, that the recent deformation pattern observed in the northern Apennines, mainly characterized by progressive eastward migration and bowing of the belt, thrusting activity along its external front, and tensional tectonics in the internal area, can be reproduced, at a first approximation, by applying a belt-parallel (SE-NW) compression to the chain, which is simulated as a structural system characterized by a high mechanical strength and decoupled from the surrounding zones. The above compressional regime, obtained by imposing kinematic boundary conditions to the model, causes the outward escape of crustal wedges from the chain, in particular the northeastward displacement of the Romagna-Marche-Umbria Units and the counterclockwise rotation and northwestward displacement of the Ligurian Units. This kinematics produces compressional to transcompressional strain along the external front of the chain and tensional to transtensional strain in the internal area, in line with the observed features that concern both strain style and orientation of principal strains. Evidence and arguments supporting the kinematic boundary conditions and the model parameterization adopted in modeling are discussed. Numerical experiments have also been carried out to evaluate the influence of major features of the model parameterization and boundary conditions we have adopted in modeling and to provide insights into the possible influence of strong decoupling earthquakes in the central Apennines on tectonic and seismic activity in the northern Apennines.

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“…hogback, cuesta, mesa reliefs) carved on Mio-Plio-Quaternary terrigenous deposits, related to syn-, late-orogenic phases of the Apennines, and by Quaternary marine regressive deposits and continental deposits of post-orogenic phase. Here, the marine environment persisted until the Early Pleistocene, when the regional north-eastward tilting of the area followed the main thrusting (Centamore & Nisio, 2003) led to a sub-parallel (SW-NE) arrangement of the main valley across the emerged coastal plain (D'Alessandro, Miccadei, & Piacentini, 2008;Mayer, Menichetti, Nesci, & Savelli, 2003). Generalized tectonic uplift started in the Middle Pleistocene (D'Agostino, Jackson, Dramis, & Funiciello, 2001;Pizzi, 2003), along with a series of glacial-interglacial cycles linked with the Mid-Pleistocene climate transition (e.g.…”

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Morphotectonics of the Pescara River basin (Central Italy)

2017

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This work presents a morphotectonic map of the Pescara River basin (1:40,000 scale), located in the piedmont-hilly area of the central-eastern Apennines (Abruzzo Region, Italy), and stretching from the eastern slope of the chain (Maiella Massif, Morrone Mt. and Gran Sasso Range) to the Adriatic coast. It is the outcome of an extensive drainage basin-scale geomorphological analysis and incorporates four main sections: orography and hydrography; morphotectonics; azimuthal analysis of the morphotectonic elements; Quaternary fluvial deposits and morphotectonic profiles. The morphotectonic map provides a basis for the study of morphotectonic features at basin-scale, the reconstruction of paleo-landscapes with special regard to drainage network evolution, and the recognition of tectonic control and selective erosion on the landscape. It also contributes to an outline of the main phases of the post-orogenic landscape evolution of the piedmont-hilly area of the Apennines, resulting from the link of alternating morphotectonic and surface processes. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Effects of uplift and tilting in the Central-Northern Apennines (Italy)

Cited by 56 publications

References 5 publications

Characterising the origin, nature and fate of sediment exported from catchments perturbed by active tectonics

Characterising the origin, nature and fate of sediment exported from catchments perturbed by active tectonics

Driving mechanism of tectonic activity in the northern Apennines: Quantitative insights from numerical modeling

Morphotectonics of the Pescara River basin (Central Italy)

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