The interplay between mantle convective motions and the structural evolution of the Central-Northern Apennines

The Central Apennines consist of a fold and thrust
belt developed during Neogene, involving sedimentary
successions of different paleogeographic domains. The
geodynamic evolution of this sector was controlled by several
important tectonic events, highlighted by numerous
depositional sequences recognized in the Neogene marine
successions. The time scanning of the stratigraphic events
allowed to be reconstruct: the different stages of the eastward
shifting of the chain-foredeep-foreland system; the
deformation chronology; the more recent effects of the interactions
between the regional uplift and extensional tectonics
in the chain and the progressive eastward tilting of
the Periadriatic sector.
The Neogene foredeep and thrust top basins of the
Central Apennines are filled by siliciclastic deposits from
a Tyrrhenian crystalline area. The most important tectono-
stratigraphy events developed during Messinian-Early
Pliocene.