The northern fault of the onshore-offshore Monte Giove relief in the southern Adriatic Sea, Italy: implications for tectonic reactivation in the Apulian Foreland

• Autorzy: Cicala Marianna , De Giosa Francesco , Festa Vincenzo , Lisco Stefania Nunzia , Moretti Massimo

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DOI

10.7306/gq.1681

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

We provide improved constraints on the timing, geometry and kinematics of the fault that may control the northern submerged morpho-structural relief termed Monte Giove, offshore from the town of Polignano a Mare. We have integrated onshore and offshore data, and interpreted seismic profiles from the ViDEPI project pertaining to the offshore Adriatic Sea of the Murge area, and made field observations north of Polignano a Mare. The fault has been surveyed onshore and mainly offshore along a distance of ~25 km. Generally striking E–W, it dips at high angle to the NNE in the west and to the N in the east. Active since at least the Cretaceous, this was reactivated after the Early Pleistocene with dextral oblique-slip kinematics. It borders the Monte Giove submerged relief/structural high, and continues eastwards in the Adriatic Sea into the Northern Deformation Zone/”Murge basse” graben, that in turn affected the onshore Murge area. Fault reactivation may have been related to a strain field in the outer part of the gentle buckle fold that involved the continental lithosphere of the Apulian Foreland (i.e., the areas of the Murge onshore and the Adriatic Sea offshore) since the Middle Pleistocene, as roll-back of the subducting lithosphere halted. Besides its tectonic reactivation, this fault has important implications as regards local seismic hazard, as well as the morphology influencing the present-day bioherm.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Apulian Foreland; Monte Giove; Murge; fault reactivation

• Wydawca: Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Geological Quarterly
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 67, No. 1
• Strony: art. no. 11
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 57 poz., fot., map., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Cicala Marianna

• Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, 70125 Bari, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7989-8877

autor

De Giosa Francesco

• Spin-Off dell’Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Environmental Surveys S.r.l. (ENSU), 74123 Taranto, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6423-6862

autor

Festa Vincenzo

• Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, 70125 Bari, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6054-5035+

autor

Lisco Stefania Nunzia

• Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, 70125 Bari, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7651-6957

autor

Moretti Massimo

• Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, 70125 Bari, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4920-7128

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