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• TITLE: Belt-Parallel Shortening in the Northern Apennines and Seismotectonic Implications

  AUTHORS: Marcello Viti, Enzo Mantovani, Daniele Babbucci, Caterina Tamburelli, Nicola Cenni, Massimo Baglione, Vittorio D’Intinosante

  KEYWORDS: Northern Apennines, Seismotectonics, Oroclinal Bending

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Geosciences, Vol.6 No.8, August 31, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Major seismic activity in the Northern Apennines concentrates in few zones, distributed in a peculiar way. It is argued that such context may be plausibly explained as an effect of belt-parallelshortening, which has caused oroclinal bending of the longitudinal ridges formed during the Late Miocene to Lower Pliocene evolutionary phase. The main effects of this process, developed since the upper Pliocene, have mainly affected the outer sectors of the belt. The major seismic sources have generated in the zones where different oroclinal bendings of adjacent ridges have produced extensional/transtensional deformation. In the inner side of the Northern Apennines, belt parallel shortening has occurred at a lower rate. The main effects have resulted from the shortening of theAlbano-Chianti-Rapolano-Cetona ridge. In particular, the proposed tectonic setting may accountfor the moderate seismic activity that occurs in the Firenze, Elsa, Pesa, Siena and Radicofani basins.