TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Giovanni Capponi, Michele Marroni & Enrico Tavarnelli Fernando Calamita

Ricordo Di Tonino Decandia

Antonio Lazzarotto(*)

Ricordo Di Gaetano Giglia

Stani Giammarino(*)

The geological relationships between Sardinia and Calabria during Alpine and Hercynian times

Walter Alvarez(*) & David H. Shimabukuro(*)

Relationships between the Apennine thrust belt, foredeep and foreland revealed by marine seismic data, offshore Calabria

Robert W.H. Butler(*)

Mantle exhumation and lithospheric spreading: An historical perspective from investigations in the Oceans and in the Alps-Apennines ophiolites

Yves Lagabrielle(*)

Transverse architecture of the Moine Thrust Belt and Moine Nappe, Northern Highlands, Scotland: new insight on a classic thrust belt

A.G. Leslie(*) & M. Krabbendam(*)

A review of Alpine deformation and stresses in southern England

D.C.P. Peacock(*)

Plate Tectonics and the Boundary between Alps and Apennines

Andrea Argnani(*)

Tectonic evolution along the Col del Lis-Trana Deformation Zone (internal Western Alps)

Gianni Balestro(*)(**), Paola Cadoppi(*)(**), Gianluigi Perrone(*) & Sergio Tallone(**)

Oligocene-Miocene foredeep deposits in the Lake Trasimeno area (Central Italy): insights into the evolution of the Northern Apennines

Marco Barsella(*), Arnaldo Boscherini(**), Flavia Botti(*), Michele Marroni(*)(***), Francesca Meneghini(*), Andrea Motti(**), Silvia Palandri(*) & Luca Pandolfi(*)(***)

New data on post-Eocene tectonic evolution of the External Ligurian Briançonnais (Western Ligurian Alps)

Fabrizio Piana(*), Alessia Musso(**), Carlo Bertok(**), Anna d'Atri(**), Luca Martire(**), Elena Perotti(**), Dario Varrone(*) & Giorgio Martinotti(**)

The instrumental seismicity of the Abruzzo Region in Central Italy (1981-2003): seismotectonic implications

Paolo Boncio(*), Debora Paola Tinari(*), Giusy Lavecchia(*), Francesco Visini(*) & Giuliano Milana(**)

Structural inheritance of pre- and syn-orogenic normal faults on the arcuate geometry of Pliocene-Quaternary thrusts: Examples from the Central and Southern Apennine Chain

Fernando Calamita(*), Paolo Esestime(*), Werter Paltrinieri(*), Vittorio Scisciani(*) & Enrico Tavarnelli(**)

Stratigraphic and paleopedological aspects from the Middle Pleistocene continental deposits of the southern Valdelsa Basin

E. Capezzuoli(*), S. Priori(*) & E.A.C. Costantini(**) , F. Sandrelli(*)

Did the Nile River flow to the Gulf of Sirt during the late Miocene?

Luigi Carmignani, Riccardo Salvini & Filippo Bonciani(*)

Basic stratigraphy and tectonics of the Southern Alps around the Giudicarie Lineament (Southern Alps, Italy)

Alberto Castellarin(*)

Geometry and kinematics of Triassic-to-Recent structures in the Northern-Central Apennines: a review and an original working hypothesis

Ernesto Centamore(*), David Rossi(*) & Enrico Tavarnelli(**)

Late orogenic transpressional tectonics in the «Ligurian Knot»

L. Crispini(**), L. Federico(*), G. Capponi(*) & C. Spagnolo(*)

New biostratigraphic and petrographic data from the Poggio Carnaio Sandstone Fm (Val Marecchia Nappe): insights into the tectonic evolution of the Northern Apennines

Angelida Di Staso(*), Sonia Perrotta(**), Francesco Guerrera(**), Vincenzo Perrone(**) & Mario Tramontana(**)

Exhumation in a fossil subduction channel: an example from the Ligurian Alps

L. Federico(**), L. Crispini(*), M. Scambelluri(*) & G. Capponi(*)

Evidence of syn-sedimentary tectonic activity in the «flysch di Ventimiglia» (Ligurian Alps foredeep basin)

Stani Giammarino(*), Stefano Orezzi(*), Michele Piazza(*) & Davide Rosti(*)

Stratigraphy in the continental crust: lithologic and tectonic records

Guido Gosso(*) & Maria Iole Spalla(*)

Tectonometamorphic evolution of the ophiolitic sequences from Northern Calabrian Arc

Francesca Liberi(*) & Eugenio Piluso

Geodynamic/tectonic setting in the Italian Region: elements for the choiche of the reference model

Enzo Mantovani(*), Marcello Viti(*), Daniele Babbucci(*) & Caterina Tamburelli(*)

Integrated approach to investigation of active tectonics: an example from the Calore River Fault System, southern Italy

Bruno Massa(*) & Agostino Zuppetta(*)

Tectonic history of the Monti dell'Uccellina range, Southern Tuscany, Italy

Chara Montomoli(*), Rodolfo Carosi(*) & Piero Carlo Pertusati(*)

The Sardinia-Corsica microplate and its role in the Northern Apennine Geodynamics: new insights from the Tertiary intraplate strike-slip tectonics of Sardinia

Giacomo Oggiano(*), Antonio Funedda(**), Luigi Carmignani(***) & Sandro Pasci(*)

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of the fault network in the internal Cottian Alps (Western Alps)

Gianluigi Perrone(*), Michele Morelli(**), Paola Cadoppi(*)(***), Sergio Tallone(***) & Marco Giardino(*)

Structural evolution of a foreland basin succession: the Dauna Unit in the sannio-molise sector of the Southern Apennines

Sara Pertusati(*) & Alfonsina Buonanno(*)

Geodynamic evolution of the Jurassic Ligurian Tethys viewed from the Mantle perspective

Giovanni B. Piccardo(*)

Tectonically-related fluid circulation in the San Casciano dei Bagni-Sarteano area (M. Cetona ridge-Southern Tuscany): a coupled structural and geochemical investigation

Davide Piscopo(*), Marco Gattiglio(**), Elisa Sacchi(***) & Enrico Destefanis(**)

Climatic and tectonic control on the distribution of the Oligocene reefs of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (NW Italy)

Francesca Quaranta(*), Michele Piazza(*) & Grazia Vannucci(*)

Messinian-Early Pliocene crustal shortening along the Tyrrhenian margin of Tuscany, Italy

Federico Sani(1), Marco Bonini(2), Andrea Cerrina Feroni(3), Francesco Mazzarini(4), Giovanna Moratti(2), Giovanni Musumeci(5), Giacomo Corti(2), Federica Iatta(1) & Alessandro Ellero(3)

Plio-Quaternary tectonic evolution of the Northern Apennines thrust fronts (Bologna-Ferrara section, Italy): seismotectonic implications

G. Toscani(*), P. Burrato(**), D. Di Bucci(***), S. Seno(*) & G. Valensise(**)