Geomorphological evidence for anti-Apennine faults in the Umbro-Marchean Apennines and in the peri-Adriatic basin, Italy

Coltorti, Mauro; Farabollini, Piero; Gentili, Bernardino; Pambianchi, Gilberto

doi:10.1016/0169-555x(95)00117-n

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“…At the same time, variations in local base levels (within the intermontane basins) and the deepening of the hydrographic network induced intense surface processes and controlled the development and exhumation of thrust and anticlinal ridges (Ciccacci et al 1999;Miccadei et al 1999Miccadei et al , 2004Cavinato et al 2002;Galadini & Messina 2004;Giaccio et al 2012;Santo et al 2014; for the surrounding areas see also Coltorti et al 1991Coltorti et al , 1996Amato et al 2014;Aringoli et al 2014;Labella et al 2014 and references therein).…”

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“…2) (average slip-rates ~ 0.1-1.5 mm/a; Papanikolaou et al 2005 and references therein). This caused the uplifting of the chain system, the formation of the intermontane basins (Cavinato & De Celles 1999;Galadini & Messina 2004;Giaccio et al 2012;Bonini et al 2014; and references therein), the ensuing widening of the chain area and the emersion of the Adriatic Piedmont (Dramis 1993;Coltorti et al 1991Coltorti et al , 1996Aucelli et al 1996;Centamore et al 1996;Del Monte et al 1996;Lupia Palmieri et al 1996, 1998Ascione & Cinque 1999;D'Alessandro et al 2003;Mayer et al 2003). The present-day tectonic setting is characterized by extensional tectonics still active in the axial part of the chain, which is characterized by intense seismicity and strong historical earthquakes (up to M 7.0;e.g.…”

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Long-term geomorphological evolution in the Abruzzo area, Central Italy: twenty years of research

Miccadei¹,

Piacentini²,

Buccolini³

2017

Geologica Carpathica

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Abstract:The most recent research studies into the long-term landscape evolution of the Abruzzo area, carried out over the last twenty years at the "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, are based on an integrated approach incorporating structural geology and geomorphology and, in particular, the geomorphometry of topographic and hydrographic aspects, geological and structural-geomorphological surveys and mapping supported by morpho-stratigraphic and chrono logical constraints.The geomorphological analyses have allowed us to outline the main stages of geomorphological evolution and to identify the factors that have contributed to the landscape shaping of the Apennine Chain, the Adriatic Piedmont and the fluvial plains and coastal sectors, up to the Tremiti islands. In the Apennine Chain, landscape evolution -in a ridge, valley and basin system -is connected to the regional uplift, local tectonic subsidence and local base level variations, which have led to changes in the drainage systems, from exoreic to endorheic (in the intermontane basins) and then to exoreic again. In the Adriatic Piedmont, landscape shaping is connected to uplifting and eustatic sea-level fluctuations, which have induced the formation of a structure-controlled drainage system and the shaping of systems of entrenched alluvial fans and large consequent river valleys, with flights of river terraces. In the coastal Adriatic area -composed of a coastal plain-coastal slope system (northern and southern coast) and of a cliffed rocky coast (central coast, Tremiti) interrupted by river valleys -landscape shaping is the result of selective erosion due to the interaction between marine geomorphic processes and slope processes connected to Late Quaternary eustatic fluctuations.

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Long-term geomorphological evolution in the Abruzzo area, Central Italy: twenty years of research

Miccadei¹,

Piacentini²,

Buccolini³

2017

Geologica Carpathica

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“…Starting from the late Pliocene the whole of Central Italy was involved in a widespread uplift (Dramis 1992;Coltorti et al 1996), which in the Ancona sector raised the Plio-Pliostocene deposits by several hundred metres (e.g. 250 m a.s.l.…”

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A new appraisal of the Ancona landslide based on geotechnical investigations and stability modelling

Agostini

Tofani

Nolesini

et al. 2013

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On the night of 13 December 1982, Ancona experienced the catastrophic reactivation of an old and large landslide located along the coast to the west of the city. The outcomes of past and new geotechnical investigations and the data from the 30 year readings of the monitoring instruments have been integrated to redefine and update the actual location of the sliding surfaces. According to the new analysis, the landslide involves four main sliding surfaces with different extents and depths. The deepest surfaces converge at depth in a shear band and their toes are positioned near or beyond the coast. Numerical and analytical modelling of the landslide has been carried out using the newly derived sliding surface geometries. The numerical modelling has allowed a qualitative assessment of the deformation pattern, confirming the geometry of the sliding surfaces derived from the geotechnical investigations. The stability analyses have been performed applying the limit equilibrium method to quantify the instability conditions of the landside. The analyses have been carried out for five stratigraphic-geotechnical scenarios. All of these scenarios show a stability condition near the limit equilibrium.

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“…The associated tectonic elements with prevalent extensional kinematics (mainly NW-SE and WSW-ENE oriented) created tectonic basins, slope deformations and hydrographic network setup. The coeval and marked climatic oscillations and the alternation of fluvial and marine erosion /sedimentation phases, induced several processes (Calamita et al 1982;Gentili & Pambianchi 1987;Coltorti et al 1991;Nesci & Savelli 1991;Calamita et al 1994;Coltorti & Farabollini1995;Coltorti et al 1996;Fanucci et al 1996;Cello et al 1997;Calamita et al 1999;Nesci et al 2002;Aringoli et al 2007Aringoli et al , 2008Aringoli et al , 2010Materazzi et al 2010;Nesci et al 2012;Aringoli et al 2014):…”

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Pliocene –Pleistocene geomorphological evolution of the Adriatic side of Central Italy

Gentili¹,

Pambianchi²,

Aringoli³

et al. 2017

Geologica Carpathica

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This work is a significant contribution to knowledge of the Quaternary and pre-Quaternary morphogenesis of a wide sector of central Italy, from the Apennine chain to the Adriatic Sea. The goal is achieved through a careful analysis and interpretation of stratigraphic and tectonic data relating to marine and continental sediments and, mostly, through the study of relict limbs of ancient landscapes (erosional surfaces shaped by prevailing planation processes). The most important scientific datum is the definition of the time span in which the modelling of the oldest morphological element (the "summit relict surface") occurred: it started during Messinian in the westernmost portion and after a significant phase during middle-late Pliocene, ended in the early Pleistocene. During the middle and late Pleistocene, the rapid tectonic uplift of the area and the climate fluctuations favoured the deepening of the hydrographic network and the genesis of three orders of fluvial terraces, thus completing the fundamental features of the landscape. The subsequent Holocene evolution reshaped the minor elements, but not the basic ones.

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Geomorphological evidence for anti-Apennine faults in the Umbro-Marchean Apennines and in the peri-Adriatic basin, Italy

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

Long-term geomorphological evolution in the Abruzzo area, Central Italy: twenty years of research

Long-term geomorphological evolution in the Abruzzo area, Central Italy: twenty years of research

A new appraisal of the Ancona landslide based on geotechnical investigations and stability modelling

Pliocene –Pleistocene geomorphological evolution of the Adriatic side of Central Italy

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