New insights on morpho-structures and seismic stratigraphy along the Campania continental margin (Southern Italy) based on deep multichannel seismic profiles

New insights on the deep regional geological structure of the Naples Bay are herein proposed through the constraints of seismic interpretation. Regional geoseismic sections along the Ischia-Capri-Volturno alignment of the Campania continental margin have been constructed. Main regional morpho-structures are: the Banco di Fuori, a morpho-structure high of Meso-Cenozoic carbonates, bounding southwarrds the Naples Bay; the Dohrn canyon, separating the eastern side of the Bay, where sedimentary seismic sequences crop out, from the western one, where volcanic seismic units prevail; the Capri structural high, a sedimentary high related to regional uplift of Meso-Cenozoic carbonates along the Capri-Sorrento alignment; the Magnaghi canyon, eroding the Mg volcanic seismic unit southwards of the Procida islands; the Capri basin, a deep basin located south of the Naples Bay, filled by Pleistocene-Holocene sediments overlying Meso-Cenozoic carbonatic unit; the Salerno Valley, a half-graben filled by three seismic units corresponding to Quaternary marine deposits, overlying chaotic sequences related to the "Flysch del Cilento" Auct.; the Volturno basin, filled by four marine to deltaic seismic sequences, frequently alternating with volcanoclastic levels, overlying deep seismic units, correlated with Miocene flysch deposits (sands and shales) and Meso-Cenozoic carbonates. On the Naples slope between the Dohrn and Magnaghi canyons a large volcanic edifice, only magnetically known, deeply buried under Quaternary volcanites and genetically related to the Procida volcanic complex, has been modelled through seismic interpretation.