Stratigraphic and structural setting of the Salerno area

In the Salerno district large scale extensional tectonics on low angle detachment faults has produced a significant thinning and the dismemberment of the Mesozoic carbonate platform successions that compose the thrust belt in this region. The geometrical characteristics and kinematics of this extensional detachment array have been reconstructed through detailed structural mapping on land and the integration of offshore seismic lines and stratigraphic analyses.