Anatomy of an Orogen: The Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Geomorphologic setting

   • Gian Battista Vai, I. Peter Martini

   Pages 1-4

3. Summaries of the contributions and few considerations

   • Gian Battista Vai, I. Peter Martini

   Pages 5-14

4. Structure and stratigraphy: an overview

   • Gian Battista Vai

   Pages 15-31

5. Deep structure from seismic tomography

   • Alessandro Amato, Giovanni Battista Cimini

   Pages 33-45

6. Deep seismic transects

   • Rinaldo Nicolich

   Pages 47-52

7. Magnetic and gravity analysis of Italy

   • Emanuele Cassano, Luigi Anelli, Vincenzo Cappelli, Paolo la Torre

   Pages 53-64

8. Deep temperatures and surface heat flow distribution

   • Bruno Della Vedova, Stefano Bellani, Giulio Pellis, Paolo Squarci

   Pages 65-76

9. Magmatism from Mesozoic to Present: petrogenesis, time-space distribution and geodynamic implications

   • Giancarlo Serri, Fabrizio Innocenti, Piero Manetti

   Pages 77-103

10. Volcanism in the Southern Apennines and Sicily

    • Boris Behncket

    Pages 105-120

11. Basement and early (pre-Alpine) history

    • Gian Battista Vai

    Pages 121-150

12. Ophiolites, Ligurides and the tectonic evolution from spreading to convergence of a Mesozoic Western Tethys segment

    • Valerio Bortolotti, Gianfranco Principi, Benedetta Treves

    Pages 151-164

13. Disrupted and chaotic rock units

    • Darrel S. Cowan, Gian Andrea Pini

    Pages 165-175

14. Alps-Apennines and Po Plain-frontal Apennines relations

    • Alberto Castellarin

    Pages 177-195

15. Inner Northern Apennines

    • Luigi Carmignani, Francesco Antonio Decandia, Leonardo Disperati, Pier Lorenzo Fantozzi, Roy Kligfield, Antonio Lazzarotto et al.

    Pages 197-213

16. Outer Northern Apennines

    • Massimiliano Barchi, Alberto Landuzzi, Giorgio Minelli, Giampaolo Pialli

    Pages 215-253

17. The Apenninic—Maghrebian orogen in southern Italy, Sicily and adjacent areas

    • Mario Grasso

    Pages 255-286

18. Calabria-Peloritani terrane and northern Ionian Sea

    • Glauco Bonardi, William Cavazza, Vincenzo Perrone, Sergio Rossi

    Pages 287-306

19. Mesozoic-Tertiary carbonate platforms, slopes and basins of the external Apennines and Sicily

    • Daniel Bernoulli

    Pages 307-325

20. Tertiary silicoclastic turbidite systems of the Northern Apennines

    • Andrea Argnani, Franco Ricci Lucchi

    Pages 327-349

This is the first book in English reviewing and updating the geology of the whole Apennines, one of the recent most uplifted mountains in the world. The Apennines are the place from which Steno (1669) first stated the principles of geology. The Apennines also represent amongst others, the finding/testing sites of processes and products like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, olistostromes and mélanges (argille scagliose), salinity crisis, geothermal fluids, thrust-top basins, and turbidites (first represented in a famous Leonardo's painting). As such, the Apennines are a testing and learning ground readily accessible and rich of any type of field data. A growing literature is available most of which is not published in widely available journals.
The objective of the book is to provide a synthesis of current data and ideas on the Apennines, for the most part simply written and suitable for an international audience. However, sufficient details and in-depth analyses of the various complex settings have been presented to make this material useful to professional scholars and to students of senior university courses.

• Neogen
• Petrogenesis
• Sediment
• Stratigraphy
• Turbidite
• fault
• petroleum geology
• uplift
• historical geology
• structural geology

• Università di Bologna, Italy

  Gian Battista Vai

• University of Guelph, Canada

  I. Peter Martini

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