Topographic expression of active faults in the foothills of the Northern Apennines

Picotti, Vincenzo; Ponza, Alessio; Pazzaglia, Frank J.

doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.01.009

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“…Photogeology analysis is performed on scale 1:33,000 aerial photos (Abruzzi Region Flight, 1982-1987 for the preliminarily mapping of main landforms (tectonic and structural landforms, fluvial landforms, slope landforms etc.). Structural geomorphology field mapping is carried out on 1:10.000 scale investigating bedrock geology, Quaternary continental deposits (fluvial, alluvial fan, slope deposits), main tectonic elements and morphotectonic evidence (ridges, slopes, valleys, hydrography forms and fluvial terraces) according to main national guidelines and national and international literature (Ambrosetti et al, 1976;ENEL, 1981;Panizza and Castaldini, 1987;Ciccacci et al, 1986;SGN, 1992SGN, , 1994Leeder and Jakson, 1993;GNGFG, 1994;Centamore et al, 1996;Lupia Palmieri et al, 1996;Molin et al, 2004;Frenkel and Pazzaglia, 2005;APAT, 2007;Bull, 2007;D'Alessandro et al, 2008;Della Seta et al, 2008;ISPRA, 2009;Picotti et al, 2009;Miccadei et al, 2011;Pazzaglia, in press). The coupling of Quaternary continental deposits, fluvial terraces and morphotectonic evidence by means of morphotectonic profiles allowed finally to outline the relationships between forms and deposits.…”

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Two Tectonic Geomorphology Studies on the Landscape and Drainage Network of Chain and Piedmont Areas of the Abruzzi Region (Central Apennines, Italy)

Miccadei¹,

Piacentini²

2011

New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence

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Two Tectonic Geomorphology Studies on the Landscape and Drainage Network of Chain and Piedmont Areas of the Abruzzi Region (Central Apennines, Italy)

Miccadei¹,

Piacentini²

2011

New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence

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“…This method has been widely tested in tec toni cally ac tive ar eas of vari able de for ma tion rates, in clud ing high strain rate areas such as the west ern USA, Tai wan and Himalaya (e.g., Snyder et al, 2000;Champel et al, 2002;Delcaillau et al, 2006), and in low strain rate ar eas like SE Spain (Pedrera et al, 2009;Pérez-Peña et al, 2010), south ern and north ern It aly (Guernieri and Pirrotta, 2008;Picotti et al, 2009), the Vi enna Ba sin and Cen tral Pannonian Ba sin re gion (Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger et al, 2009;Beidinger et al, 2011). These re sults are of ten com bined with ad di tional data, e.g.…”

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Identification of tectonically active areas using DEM: a quantitative morphometric analysis of Mt. Medvednica, NW Croatia

Matoš

Tomljenović

Trenc

2013

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1 Fac ulty of Min ing, Ge ol ogy and Pe tro leum En gi neer ing, Uni ver sity of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, Zagreb, Croatia Mt. Medvednica is an inselberg in NW Croatia, which lies at the in ter sec tion be tween the Southeastern Alps, Northwestern Dinarides and Tisza Mega-Unit of the Pannonian Ba sin. Due to the Pliocene-Quaternary N-S di rected short en ing, Mt. Medvednica ex pe ri enced 1500-2000 m of dif fer en tial up lift and now ex poses pre-Neo gene and Neo gene tec tonic and stratigraphic units that are sur rounded by Pliocene-Quaternary sed i ments. This pa per eval u ates a set of quan ti ta tive morphometry meth ods used to iden tify tec toni cally ac tive ar eas within this re gion characterized by low-rate ac tive fold ing and fault ing dur ing the Pliocene-Quaternary. Our anal y sis em ployed ex trac tion of hypsometric curves, cal cu la tion of a hypsometric in te gral, asym me try fac tor, and sta tis ti cal pa ram e ters of lon gi tu di nal stream pro files along 36 drain age bas ins de lin eated from a 25 m res o lu tion DEM of Mt. Medvednica area. De spite lithological het er o ge ne ity of the study area, the morphometric pa ram e ters we ob tain are good in di ca tors for dis crim i nat ing tec toni cally ac tive from in ac tive ar eas. We in terpret that the most tec toni cally ac tive ar eas are lo cated at the SW cor ner and in the cen tral part of Mt. Medvednica, where they are likely re lated to the North Medvednica Bound ary Fault, and to the Kašina Fault, re spec tively. The lat ter di vides the range into dis tinct NE and SW mor pho log i cal and struc tural ar eas.

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“…Structural geomorphology field mapping (scale 1:10,000) was carried out investigating bedrock, Quaternary continental deposits, the main tectonic elements and morphotectonic elements the main tectonic and morphotectonic elements (ridges, slopes, valleys, hydrographic forms and fluvial terraces) (Ambrosetti et al, 1987;Bigi et al, 1996;Burbank & Anderson, 2011;Capolongo, Cecaro, Giano, Lazzari, & Schiattarella, 2005;Centamore, Ciccacci, Del Monte, Fredi, & Lupia Palmieri, 1996;Ciccacci, D'Alessandro, Dramis, & Miccadei, 1999;Ciccacci et al, 1986;D'Alessandro et al, 2008;ENEL, 1981;Griffiths, Smith, & Paron, 2011;Keller & Printer, 2001;Lupia Palmieri et al, 1996;Miccadei, Mascioli, & Piacentini, 2011;Miccadei et al, 2012;Miccadei, Paron, & Piacentini, 2004;Molin, Pazzaglia, & Dramis, 2004;Otto, Gustavsson, & Geilhausen, 2011;Pazzaglia, 2013;Panizza & Castaldini, 1987;Picotti, Ponza, & Pazzaglia, 2009).…”

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Morphotectonic map of the Aventino-Lower Sangro valley (Abruzzo, Italy), scale 1:50,000

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This work presents the Morphotectonic map of the Aventino-Lower Sangro valley, located in the southern Abruzzi area, and extending from the Apennines chain to the eastern piedmont, from the Maiella Mountain to the Adriatic coast. It is the result of an extensive drainage basin scale geomorphological analysis carried out in the Abruzzi area and incorporates four main sections: orography and hydrography (upper right on the map); morphotectonic section (centre and left on the map); quaternary fluvial deposits and terraces section (right on the map) and the long morphotectonic profile (lower right on the map).The map presented in this work provides a basis for the recognition of morphotectonic features at basin scale, the detection of tectonic control on landscape, and the reconstruction of paleo-landscapes. It contributes to defining the main phases of the post-orogenic landscape evolution of the transition zone between the Apennines chain and the eastern piedmont area, resulting from the combination of alternating morphotectonics and surface processes, due to rock uplift processes, local tectonics and slope and fluvial processes.

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Topographic expression of active faults in the foothills of the Northern Apennines

Cited by 39 publications

References 22 publications

Two Tectonic Geomorphology Studies on the Landscape and Drainage Network of Chain and Piedmont Areas of the Abruzzi Region (Central Apennines, Italy)

Two Tectonic Geomorphology Studies on the Landscape and Drainage Network of Chain and Piedmont Areas of the Abruzzi Region (Central Apennines, Italy)

Identification of tectonically active areas using DEM: a quantitative morphometric analysis of Mt. Medvednica, NW Croatia

Morphotectonic map of the Aventino-Lower Sangro valley (Abruzzo, Italy), scale 1:50,000

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