Geology of the Northern Simbruini Mts. (Abruzzo – Italy)

摘要: ABSTRACTThis paper presents the results of a geological mapping project across northern portion Simbruini Mts. (Latium-Abruzzi Domain – Central Apennines), where thick Cretaceous and Miocene carbonate succession, followed by upper terrigenous foredeep is exposed. The succession also includes peculiar lithoclastic unit (‘brecce della Renga fm.’), whose sedimentation linked to pre-orogenic (Tortonian-Messinian) extensional tectonics. study area experienced late Messinian-early Pliocene compression, which Apennine chain building phase, Quaternary post-orogenic extension, related opening Tyrrhenian basin. A map, at 1:20,000 scale, illustrates main stratigraphic structural features area.