MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURAL-GEOLOGICAL INSIGHT INTO
LONG-TERM AND ACTIVE TECTONIC HISTORY OF PENINSULAR ITALY:
A COAST TO COAST GEOTRAVERSE FROM ELBA ISLAND TO GARGANO PROMONTORY.
For academic year 2017-2018, NatLab offers an eight -day structural-geological field trip, to be held between May and June 2019.
The first four-days will be dedicated to the western sector of the Transect from Elba Island to the Tiber Graben in western Umbria. In the eastern Elba, fieldwork will focus on the Early-Middle Miocene contractional structures of the internal Apennine stack, including the metamorphic units, and on their subsequent deformation due to the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene low-angle extensional tectonics. After a trip across the middle Tuscan Range and the Larderello geothermal field, this first part of the NatLab, will end with an analysis of the surface evidence of the east-dipping Altotiberina fault, in the Massicci Perugini area.

The fifth and sixth days will be aimed at looking/studying multi-scale fold-and-thrust structures across the beautiful Fiastrone Gorge (Sibillini thrust zone), in the Marche region.
The seventh day will be focused on the spectacular multi-scale Quaternary and co-seismic structures outcropping along the Bove-Vettore extensional fault alignment.
The eighth day, will provide a regional look at the active and potentially seismogenic Mattinata strike-slip fault displacing the Gargano foreland, with insights on its kinematic history, inferred by large-scale and meso-scale tectonic features.