LA FASCIA PERIADRIATICA MARCHIGIANO-ABRUZZESE DAL PLIOCENE MEDIO AI TEMPI ATTUALI: EVOLUZIONE TETTONICO-SEDIMENTARIA E GEOMORFOLOGICA

Abstract

The hilly belt located between Mt Conero to the North and the low valley of the Sangro river to the South, is modelled over Plio-Pleistocene marine deposits. The latter, as a whole, are disposed according to an eastward dipping gentle monocline. Remarkable sinsedimentary tectonics con­ditioned the morphologic structure of the basin and its deposi­tional settings, as well as the marine sequence. Netwithstand­ing its overall unitariness it shows various differentiations, both vertically and horizontally, with sedimentary and an­gular unconformities of considerable extent. [...]