The connected Auletta, Vallo di Diano, and Sanza basins, southern Apennines, Italy: Opening kinematics and morphostructural evolution

Several Pliocene to Quaternary tectonically-controlled continental basins are scattered along the axis of the southern Italian Apennines. They represent the result of the differential tectonic uplift which affected the axial zone of the orogenic belt. In particular, three different but morphologically connected intermontane basins have been here investigated from a morphotectonic point of view. Opening kinematics of such fault-bounded basins and their morphological features and evolution have been compared to define the behaviour of this particular interconnected negative morphostructure.