...A. Argnani; M. Rovere; C. Bonazzi Abstract The Mattinata fault is an E-W–trending feature, ~50 km long, that cuts across the Gargano Promontory in the foreland of the Southern Apennines. Most researchers agree that it is a strike-slip fault, although the timing of activity is not well known, mainly...

... to prominent wrench zones, such as the east-west trending Mattinata Fault System. Field data from the Gargano Promontory in southeastern Italy, integrated with subsurface data from the adjacent Bradanic Trough, have revealed that the Mattinata Fault System during the Cretaceous acted as a transfer zone linking...

... south and north of the Mattinata Fault controlled the diagenesis of density-flow deposits during Albian–Cenomanian times. In both cases, the: i) abundant blocky cement and vuggy pores in clasts, and ii) remnant blocky cement on allochems in the corresponding matrix samples with interparticle pores...

... in the margin and upper slope deposits (particularly during relative sea-level lowstands), but the main triggering mechanism is thought to be seismic tremors. Here, we present a detailed sedimentological analysis of carbonate density-flow deposits south and north of the Mattinata Fault, a major strike-slip...

... of the Mattinata fault, a section of a regional east–west shear zone. The 10 August 1893 M w 5.4 event is one such earthquake, but its current onshore location is only loosely based on the damage pattern. Regions that were hit by offshore earthquakes are also known to be affected by a methodological bias...

... of the Adria blocks in the footwall of the active thrust fronts of the Southern-Alps. E-W trending right-lateral faults, such as the Mattinata fault, fragmented the Adria block in its southern sector. These faults are characterized by a seismo-tectonic significance as documented by the seismicity...

... extension. The earthquake-causative fault appears to connect the Mattinata fault, a major active strike-slip feature cutting across the Gargano promontory, with east-west structures known beneath the axial part of the Apennines. The 2002 earthquakes thus highlighted a mode of earthquake release that may...

... Promontory). (B) Positive flower structure (i.e., left-lateral transpressional faults) and associated fault rocks within the Mattinata fault zone. (C) Pure strike-slip fault (N97°-striking) in Jurassic carbonates of the western Gargano Promontory. Note, on the northern block, slickolite teeth (contoured...

... in the present Mattinata Fault Zone, which is a 150-km-long, E-W–trending structural element cutting across the Gargano Promontory and the southern Adriatic Sea. S alvini et alii (1999) and B rankman & A ydin (2004) showed that the Mattinata Fault Zone solved in the geological past left-lateral...

... structures ( Di Bucci & Mazzoli 2002 , and references therein). The 2002 Molise seismic sequence suggests that the important zone of dextral wrench faulting (Mattinata fault system) across the Adriatic–Gargano foreland area may extend westward, beneath the allochthonous units that form the foothills...

... , 2007 ; S crocca et alii , 2006) . A first set of faults is represented by strike-slip faults with dominantly E-W trends. The best studied fault of this set is the crustal-scale strike-slip Mattinata fault ( fig. 1 , T ondi et alii , 2005) , which extends for 50 km onshore and continues offshore...