FESTA , Andrea

In the Northern Apennines of Italy, mud-rich olistostromes (sedimentary melanges) occur at different stratigraphic levels within the late Oligocene-early Miocene sedimentary record of episutural/wedge-top basins. They are widely distributed along the exhumed outer part of the Ligurian accretionary complex, atop the outer Apenninic prowedge,...

In this study we combine observations and analytical data from large-scale (10-100s of m-thick and 100 m(2)-extensive), siliciclastic and carbonate MTD/MTCs belonging to the Oligocene - Miocene foredeep and wedge-top successions of the Northern Apennines and the Paleocene - Eocene Friuli basin of the northwestern Dinarides (Italy and Slovenia),...

Olistostromes (sedimentary mélanges) represent the products of ancient submarine mass transport processes. We present a comparative analysis of the occurrences and internal structures of these sedimentary mélanges at a global scale with a focus on the Circum-Mediterranean, Appalachian and Circum-Pacific regions, and discuss their formation and...

The Paleogene carbonate "megabreccia" units of the Friuli Basin are composite deposits produced by catastrophic shallow-water carbonate platform collapses re-deposited in relatively deep-water inner foredeep settings developed at the front of the advancing Dinaric thrust system. These thick, basin-wide mass transport deposits (MTDs) record the...