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Table of Contents - Special Paper 469

Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Central-Southern Apennines, Italy

by Livio Vezzani, Andrea Festa, and Francesca C. Ghisetti

Abstract 1
Introduction 2 1
The Apenninic Chain 2
Regional Setting of the Central-Southern Apennines 7
Lithostratigraphic Units of the Apenninic Thrust-Belt
Pliocene-Pleistocene Foredeep
Top-Thrust Basins
Inner Domains
  Sicilide Units
  Calabride Units
  Liguride Units
Outer Domains
  Lazio-Abruzzi and Campania-Lucania Units
  Abruzzi and Umbria-Marche Units
  Lagonegro-Sannio Units
  Sannio-Molise Units
  Outer Abruzzi Unit
  La Queglia–Colle Madonna–Teramo Unit
  Maiella and Mount Alpi Units
  Casoli Unit
  Apulia Foreland
 8
Regional Structural Setting
Geometry of the Thrust Belt
  Inner Units
  Outer Units
  Foreland
First-Order Structures of the Thrust Belt
 23
Sequence of Deformation Events
Tectonic Phase 1 (Paleogene)
Tectonic Phase 2 (Early-Middle Miocene)
Tectonic Phase 3 (Late Tortonian–Early Messinian)
Tectonic Phase 4 (Late Messinian–Early Pliocene)
Tectonic Phase 5 (Early-Middle Pliocene)
Tectonic Phase 6 (Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene)
 32
Extensional Faults Superposed onto the Contractional Edifice
Geometry and Structure of the Normal Faults
Normal Faults and Seismicity
 40
Acknowledgments 51
References Cited 51