Discriminazione cronologica di eventi deformativi fragili lungo il margine settentrionale dei Monti Lattari sulla base di dati geologici e geomorfologici

Abstract

Detailed geological and geomorphological studies carried out on a portion of the northern flank of the Sorrento Peninsula-Mounts Lattari ridge (a carbonatic structure on the Tyrrhenian side of the Southern Apennines) indicate that most of the present structural setting of the area is the result of the exhumation - owing to intense erosive processes - of old tectonic elements which developed in Late Miocene-Pliocene times. This contrasts with data from the literature which hypothesize that the block faulting, which governed the collapse of the Campania Plain graben in the Pleistocene, also controlled the morphostructurai setting of the Sorrento Peninsula-Mounts Lattari ridge.