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    Publication Date: 2021-01-22
    Description: We present a structural study on the tectonic windows of Giffoni and Campagna, located in the western sector of the southern Apennines (Italy). We analyzed thrusts, folds, and related minor deformation structures. Here, a major in-sequence E-verging thrust fault juxtaposes Meso-Cenozoic successions of the Apennine Platform (Picentini Mts unit) and the Lagonegro-Molise Basin (Frigento unit). However, out-of-sequence thrusts duplicated the tectonic pile with the interposition of the upper Miocene wedge-top basin deposits of the Castelvetere Group. We reconstructed the orogenic evolution of these two tectonic windows, including five deformation phases. The first (D1) was related to the in-sequence thrusting with minor thrusts and folds, widespread both in the footwall and the hanging wall. A subsequent extension (D2) has formed normal faults crosscutting the D1 thrusts and folds. All structures were subsequently affected by two shortening stages (D3 and D4), which also deformed the upper Miocene wedge top basin deposits of the Castelvetere Group. We interpreted the D3–D4 structures as related to an out-of-sequence thrust system defined by a main frontal E-verging thrust and lateral ramps characterized by N and S vergences. Low-angle normal faults were formed in the hanging wall of the major thrusts. Out-of-sequence thrusts are observed in the whole southern Apennines, recording a crustal shortening event that occurred in the late Messinian–early Pliocene. Finally, we suggest that the two tectonic windows are the result of the formation of an E–W trending regional antiform, associated with a late S-verging back-thrust, that has been eroded and crosscut by normal faults (D5) in the Early Pleistocene. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
    Description: Published
    Description: 405
    Description: 2TR. Ricostruzione e modellazione della struttura crostale
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Out-of-sequence thrust ; Southern Apennines ; 04.04. Geology
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2021-05-12
    Description: We report, for the first time, evidence of seismically induced soft‐sediment deformations in the central area of the active Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy). We analyzed the marine‐transitional and continental sequences located along the coastal La Starza cliffs and several stratigraphic logs exposed during the excavation of a 1‐km‐long tunnel in the Pozzuoli area. The successions host several soft‐sediment structures including sand dikes and sand volcanoes, which are largely dated within the 4.55‐ to 4.28‐kyr BP interval. The volcano‐sedimentary sequence, deposited within the Campi Flegrei caldera in the last 15 kyr, is schematically formed by the superposition of three layers with different rheological behaviors; from the base progressing upward we recognize (1) a massive tuff, (2) marine‐transitional sands of the La Starza unit, and (3) a dominance of continental volcanoclastics. We envisage that during unrest episodes of the volcano, which included ground deformation and seismic activity, the whole volcano‐sedimentary pile was deformed through brittle mechanisms with the formation of normal faults. However, the intermediate layer, when subject to seismic shaking, behaved locally as a viscous material facilitating liquefaction processes and lateral spreading deformation. Furthermore, new geophysical, stratigraphic, and structural surveys allowed us to model the deformation evolution of this area over the last 15 kyr. The evidence of seismically induced soft‐sediment deformation within the volcano‐sedimentary record suggests that moderate earthquakes could occur during future volcano‐seismic unrests. Consequently, liquefaction and related gravitational mass movements must be considered as a hazard during these unrest and volcanic crises.
    Description: Published
    Description: 1999–2018
    Description: 2V. Struttura e sistema di alimentazione dei vulcani
    Description: JCR Journal
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2021-05-12
    Description: We present a structural study on late Miocene-early Pliocene out-of-sequence thrusts affecting the southern Apennine orogenic belt. The analyzed structures are exposed in the Campania region (southern Italy). Here, thrusts bound the N-NE side of the carbonate ridges that form the regional mountain backbone. In several outcrops, the Mesozoic carbonates are superposed onto the unconformable wedge-top basin deposits of the upper Miocene Castelvetere Group, providing constraints to the age of the activity of this thrusting event. Moreover, a 4-km-long N-S oriented electrical resistivity tomography profile, carried out along the Caserta mountains, sheds light on the structure of this thrust system in an area where it is not exposed. Further information was carried out from a tunnel excavation that allowed us to study some secondary fault splays. The kinematic analysis of out-of-sequence major and minor structures hosted both in the hanging wall (Apennine Platform carbonates) and footwall (Castelvetere Group deposits and Lagonegro-Molise Basin units) indicates the occurrence of two superposed shortening directions, about E-W and N-S, respectively. We associated these compressive structures to an out-of-sequence thrusting event defined by frontal thrusts verging to the east and lateral ramp thrusts verging to the north and south. We related the out-of-sequence thrusting episode to the positive inversion of inherited normal faults located in the Paleozoic basement. These envelopments thrust upward to crosscut the allochthonous wedge, including, in the western zone of the chain, the upper Miocene wedge-top basin deposits.
    Description: Published
    Description: 301
    Description: 2TR. Ricostruzione e modellazione della struttura crostale
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: southern Apennines ; out-of-sequence thrust ; wedge-top basin ; electrical resistivity tomography ; 04.04. Geology
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: The Roccamonfina volcano is located within the Garigliano Graben (southern Apennines, Italy) and has been active throughout the Middle-Late Pleistocene. Along its polyphase volcanic history (630–55 ka), including several caldera-forming eruptions (385–230 ka), several effusive/mildly explosive monogenetic events occurred along the volcano slopes, within the summit caldera, and along the graben-bounding carbonate reliefs. In this paper, we present a multidisciplinary study of a mafic magmatic feeder dike intruded within the Meso-Tertiary carbonates and overlying Lower Pleistocene breccias of Mt Cesima, northeast of the Roccamonfina volcano. We performed a stratigraphic and structural survey of the area and petrographic analyses on several samples of the dike. Results indicate that a ∼1 km long fissure fed an eruption that also emplaced a Strombolian pyroclastic sequence. Petrological data show that an open-system mafic recharge fueled the tephritic magma that fed the eruption, whereas no evidence of significant pre/syn-eruptive assimilation of carbonate has been identified. Stratigraphic and petrological data do not allow to firmly constrain the timing of the eruption, which could belong both to the pre-Brown Leucitic Tuff (〉354 ka) and to the post-White Trachytic Tuffs (〈230 ka) epochs of activity of the Roccamonfina volcano. Structural data show that the dike is broadly oriented E-W and changes direction toward NE-SW in correspondence with a pre-existing fault damage zone. We suggest that magma was intruded during an N-S trending extensional event in the Middle Pleistocene, whose prolonged activity resulted in regional uplift and exhumation of regional significance.
    Description: Published
    Description: e2023GC010994
    Description: OSV2: Complessità dei processi vulcanici: approcci multidisciplinari e multiparametrici
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: magmatic dike ; Tectonic extension
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: article
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