TETTONICA ESTENSIONALE QUATERNARIA NELL'ARCO CALABRO E IN SICILIA ORIENTALE

Abstract

The Calabrian are, whose recent geodynamic evolution was closely related to the opening of the southern Tyrrheni­an Sea, is one of the areas of the western Mediterranean where the effects of intense Quaternary tectonics are well represent­ed. The most impressive tectonic feature of the are is represented by a prominent normai fault belt that, running more or less continuously along the inner side of the are, ex­tend, through the Strait of Messina, along the lonian coast of Sicily as far as the Iblean Plateau. [...]