UPLIFT AND LOCAL TECTONIC SUBSIDENCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF INTRAMONTANE BASINS: THE EXAMPLE OF THE SULMONA BASIN (CENTRAL APENNINES, ITALY).

Abstract

The geological evolution of the Apennines thrust belt is related to the deformation of different Mesozoic - Cenozoic paleo­geographical domains; the deformation developed during Neogene as a chain-foredeep-foreland system in the margin of the Adria plate. Since Middle(?)-Upper Pliocene the thrust belt went through an extensional tectonics. It made the regional and local tectonic set­ting more complicated, with strong vertical displacement along NW-SE, E-W and SW-NE normal fault systems, or complex kine­matics fault systems. [...]