About This Item
- Full TextFull Text(subscription required)
- Pay-Per-View PurchasePay-Per-View
Purchase Options Explain
Share This Item
The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
AAPG Bulletin
Abstract
(Begin page 419)
AAPG Bulletin, V.
Three-dimensional visualization of the Neogene structures of an external
sector of the northern Apennines, Italy
Mauro De Donatis1
1Università di Urbino, Facoltà di Scienze Ambientali, Campus scientifico, 61029 Urbino, Italy; email: [email protected]
AUTHORS
Mauro De Donatis is a lecturer at the University of Urbino where he received a degree in geological sciences in 1987. He also received a postgraduate qualification in geological cartography in Bologna (1988) and an M.Sc. degree in basin evolution and dynamics from Royal Holloway (University of London, 1996). He has been a consultant for regional and national geological cartography projects. His current research is mainly focused on thrust and strike-slip tectonics and sedimentation in foreland basin settings, integrating fieldwork and interpretation of satellite images and seismic profiles with computer-assisted analysis and modeling.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to Ken McClay and Chris Elders for their suggestions and discussions during the modeling work at the Department of Geology of the Royal Holloway-University of London. Special thanks to Alan Gibbs, Rosalind Russell, and Stephanie Kape from Midland Valley Ltd. for the software license and help. I convey my gratitude to Stefano Mazzoli and the two reviewers (J. H. Shaw and S. C. Williams-Stroud): they helped me to improve this article. Part of the fieldwork was carried out for the Geological Cartographic Project of Emilia-Romagna Region. British Gas Ri. Mi. (Milan) supplied seismic sections and well logs.
ABSTRACT
A three-dimensional (
3-D
) visualization technique is used to build
a structural model linking a complex series of thrust sheets in an external area of the
northern Apennines, central Italy. This foreland fold and thrust belt consists of faulted
anticlines and broad syn clines, involving a Triassic-Paleogene succession that is
detached from the underlying basement. Reactivation of basement faults has influenced the
geometry and kinematics of the overlying structures in a mix of thin-skinned and
thick-skinned tectonics. Upper de tachment horizons within the sedimentary succession form
shallow structures in the crestal zone of the major anticlines. All the struc tures are
scantily cylindrical, and the model demonstrates the soft linkages between oblique and
frontal structures through relay ramps.
Pay-Per-View Purchase Options
The article is available through a document delivery service. Explain these Purchase Options.
| Watermarked PDF Document: $14 | |
| Open PDF Document: $24 |
AAPG Member?
Please login with your Member username and password.
Members of AAPG receive access to the full AAPG Bulletin Archives as part of their membership. For more information, contact the AAPG Membership Department at [email protected].