Facies, Composition and Provenance of the Agnone Flysch in the Context of the Early Messinian Evolution of the Southern Apennine Foredeep (Molise, Italy)
Ital. J. Geosci., Vol. 140, No. 2 (2021), pp. 275-312, 25 figs., 4 tabs. (https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2021.01) © Società Geologica Italiana, Roma 2021 Facies, composition and provenance of the Agnone Flysch in the context of the early Messinian evolution of the southern Apennine foredeep (Molise, Italy) SALVATORE MILLI (1, 2) SALVATORE CRITELLI (3), EMANUELE AMICONE (4), GLORIA CAMPILONGO (3), FRANCESCO MUTO (3), VINCENZO TRIPODI (3), DANIEL TENTORI (2) & FRANCESCO PERRI (3) ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Clastic wedges deposited in deep-marine turbidite systems along the circum-Mediterranean region represent key tectonic The southern Apennine Chain is largely studied to elements that record the structural growing of the Apennine investigate the geodynamic evolution of the Cenozoic orogenic belt over the Adria margin. One of these clastic wedges is foreland region. However, as evidenced by several studies represented by the Agnone Flysch turbidite succession deposited in the Lagonegro-Molise foredeep basin in the early Messinian, for conducted in years (D’ARGENIO et alii, 1973; PATACCA et which the depositional facies and the related processes, as well as the alii, 1991; MATTEI et alii, 2007; PATACCA & SCANDONE, 2007; sandstone and mudstone composition are poorly known. A combined BONARDI et alii, 2009; SCROCCA, 2010; VITALE & CIARCIA, 2013), sedimentology and sedimentary petrology study has been conducted the history of this chain is very complex and characterized on this turbidite succession that provides new insight to define the basin architecture and the provenance of the Agnone Flysch during by an assemblage of tectonic units whose organization and late Miocene. Facies analysis suggests that this turbidite succession is superimposition are not always clear.
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