Aiello, Gemma and Marsella, Ennio and Cicchella, Anna Giuseppa and Di Fiore, Vincenzo (2011) New insights on morpho-structures and seismic stratigraphy along the Campania continental margin (Southern Italy) based on deep multichannel seismic profiles. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze fisiche e naturali, 22 (4). pp. 349-373. ISSN 2037-4631
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Abstract
New insights on the deep regional geological structure of the Naples Bay are herein proposed through the constraints of seismic interpretation. Regional geoseismic sections along the Ischia-Capri-Volturno alignment of the Campania continental margin have been constructed. Main regional morpho-structures are: the Banco di Fuori, a morpho-structure high of the Meso-Cenozoic carbonates, bounding southwards the Naples Bay; the Dohrn canyon, separating the eastern side of the Bay, where sedimentary seismic sequences crop out, from the western one, where volcanic seismic units prevail; the Capri structural high, a sedimentary high related to regional uplift of Meso-Cenozoic carbonates along the Capri-Sorrento alignment; the Magnaghi canyon, eroding the Mg volcanic seismic unit southwards of the Procida island; the Capri Basin, a deep basin located south of the Naples Bay, filled by Pleistocene-Holocene sediments overlying Meso-Cenozoic carbonatic unit; the Salerno Valley, a half-graben filled by three seismic units corresponding to Quaternary marine deposits, overlying chaotic sequences related to the "Flysch del Cilento" Auct.; the Volturno Basin, filled by four marine to deltaic seismic sequences, frequently alternating with volcanoclastic levels, overlying deep seismic units, correlated with Miocene flysch deposits (sands and shales) and Meso-Cenozoic carbonates. On the Naples slope between the Dohrn and Magnaghi canyons a large volcanic edifice, only magnetically known, deeply buried under Quaternary volcanites and genetically related to the Procida volcanic complex has been modelled through seismic interpretation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Naples Bay; Tyrrhenian sea; Seismic interpretation; Regional geology |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 550 Scienze della Terra > 551 Geologia, Idrologia, Meteorologia > 551.2 Vulcani, terremoti, acque termali e gas > 551.21 Vulcani (Classificare qui la Vulcanologia; classificare qui le opere d'insieme sui crateri) (Classificare la Petrologia delle rocce vulcaniche in 552.2) |
| Depositing User: | Dr Gemma Aiello |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Feb 2012 13:45 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Feb 2012 13:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/3967 |
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