Publication Date:
2017-04-04
Description:
The Adriatic microplate is considered in literature as
a block relatively undeformed and aseismic with unitary
dynamical behaviour. Nevertheless suchmodel is inadequate
to justify the recent seismicity of the Adriatic basin. Recent
mesostructural analyses are showing a continuous strain
boundary all around the Southern Adriatic platform. Several
structures were recognized continuously outcropping from
the Southern Dalmatian coastline (Kotor zone) to Split-
Sibenik area and, across the Adriatic isles, until the Tremiti
Islands and the Gargano-Murge regions. Data point out a
centripetal trend of the Dinaric and Apenninic units,
delimited to the north by ductile and brittle strain belts.
These belts seem to set apart the southern block and to allow
the release from the northern structures. The agreement
between the geological-structural and seismological data
allows to identify the Southern Adriatic block as an
indipendent crustal structure, divided from the northern
one by strike-slip faults. The Southern Adriatic block is
able to condition the structural evolution of the neighbouring
areas.
Description:
Published
Description:
Siena, Italia
Description:
open
Keywords:
Adriatic Sea
;
seismotectonics
;
04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.07. Tectonics
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
Conference paper
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