%0 Generic %A Billi, A. %A Tiberti, M.M. %A Cavinato, G.P. %A Cosentino, D. %A Di Luzio, E. %A Keller, J.V.A. %A Kluth, C. %A Orlando, L. %A Parotto, M. %A Praturlon, A. %A Romanelli, M. %A Storti, F. %A Wardell, N. %D 2016 %T First results from the CROP-11 deep seismic profile, central Apennines, Italy: evidence of mid-crustal folding %U https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/dataset/First_results_from_the_CROP-11_deep_seismic_profile_central_Apennines_Italy_evidence_of_mid-crustal_folding/3454361 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.3454361.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5425787 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5425790 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5425793 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5425796 %K Apenninic thrust wedge %K gravity signature %K Apennine %K profile %K subcriticality stage %K tectonic evidence %K First results %K Geology %X

The CROP-11 deep seismic profile across the central Apennines, Italy, reveals a previously unknown, mid-crustal antiform here interpreted as a fault-bend fold-like structure. The seismic facies and gravity signature suggest that this structure consists of low-grade metamorphic rocks. Geomorphological, stratigraphic and tectonic evidence in the overlying shallow thrusts suggests that this structure developed in early to mid-Messinian time and grew out of sequence in late Messinian–Pliocene time. The out-of-sequence growth may reflect a taper subcriticality stage of the Apenninic thrust wedge, which induced renewed contraction in the rear.

%I Geological Society of London