Neogene synorogenic stratigraphic evolution of southern Apennines

We present a study of the synorogenic deposits associated with the orogenic construction of the southern Apennines. This orogen is a segment of the Alpine chain system bounding the central-western Mediterranean Sea. Southern Apennines form an orogenic belt consisting of the superposition of some successions of the downgoing Adria plate, made of shallow-water to pelagic sedimentary successions. The synorogenic sedimentation was ruled by the migration of the forebulge-foreland basin system, with the flexure of the continental part of the Adria plate since the Oligocene (forebulge stage), mainly due to the slab retreat process. The thrust front-foredeep-forebulge system migrated toward E/NE until the middle Pleistocene. We focussed our attention on the Foreland Basin System synorogenic deposits mainly consist of back-bulge, foredeep, and wedge-top basin sediments.