...Fig. 7. South Conero Fault System and data for the seismic sequences. The results of the stress inversion analysis are shown in the inset at the bottom right. The transversal faults are shown in purple; all the other structures are in black. The black arrows indicate the seismic events...

... contemporaneous with the Plio-Quaternary compressive deformation responsible for the transpressive flower structures. In the offshore area up to the transverse Metauro Valley–Fano fault system, the main anticlines are the direct continuation of those located further to the south, the Conero (CFS3), CFS4...

... Conero limestone ridge, located in central Italy close to the Adriatic sea. A closed system, at a pilot scale, with sufficiently well defined outcropping areas of aquifer, which is offering a contribution to the aquifer recharge area evaluation. In this study a hydrogeological investigation was performed...

... with the eastern limb trending NE and layers dipping between 70° and 85° whereas its western limb dips 22° ( fig. 1 ). The fold axis has an average orientation of 228/80 ( C ello & C oppola , 1984) . The Conero anticline is intersected by a strike-slip fault system mainly orientated at high angle...

... surrounding a major wrench zone, probably as a subsidiary process associated with overall strike-slip deformation. Furthermore, earthquake epicentres located NE of the leading edge of the DISS outer thrust fault (Conero offshore; Fig. 1b ) are located in an area (the Adriatic monocline in Fig. 2a ) where...

... of rock, which suddenly collapsed from the northeastern flank of the Monte Conero anticline hurling down from 400 m elevation over the littoral zone of the Portonovo bay, ∼9 km south of the Adriatic port city of Ancona. This landslide is the largest of the Conero Riviera, a 16-km-long, seismically active...

... at surface can be found for the M. Gorzano normal fault (sections 1 to 4 in fig. 8 ) or, more to the south, for the Aquilano-Middle Aterno system (sections 6, 7). A clear connection is observed between the seismicity and the down-dip prolongation of the M. Greco-Barrea fault system in sections 14 and 15...

... following their displacement towards external subsiding zones part of the Adriatic foreland. Other thrust-faulted anticlines involving Mesozoic carbonate sequences with eastern vergence represents the leading edge of the Apennine decollement system in the offshore area ( B ally et alii ., 1986 ). Fig...

... and south of the Mt. Conero fold. The smaller, situated 40 km. southwest of Ancona, is about 16 km. long and 4 km. wide. The principal exposures along its crest are Upper Cretaceous limestones showing a broad arch with a fault along its east flank. Jurassic limestones appear in stream channels crossing...

... types of seismic faults (Fig.  1 ): Individual seismogenic sources defined as fault systems intended to supply the most accurate information available for the best identified sources, but the completeness of the sources themselves cannot be guaranteed. Composite seismogenic sources...

..., involving episodic departures from steady-state conditions, interrupting the regular growth of the accretionary wedge. However, it also possible that the Western and Eastern Umbria-Marche Apennines represent completely different orogenic systems, with different causes - possibly with the former related...

..., and stratigraphic correlations from individual fault blocks were used to interpret the varying depositional settings during six systems tracts and, as a consequence, to discern the structural evolution of the WSB during the Middle Miocene. 01 07 2009 21 10 2009 23 10 2009 12 04 2010 ©...

... have occurred. The first occurred in 1987, with an M L of 5.0, characterized by a compressive fault solution. This sequence was located very close to the Adriatic coast—40 km south of Ancona ( Riguzzi et al. , 1989 ). A second sequence occurred in 2013 in the Conero offshore region...

... faults that developed upon the pre‐existing fold‐and‐thrust belt structures. The results of the later extensional deformation are several interconnected grabens and half‐grabens with northwest–southeast or north‐northwest–south‐southeast elongation, as exposed in Tuscany or western Umbria...

... Global Positioning System observations. The advantage of this approach is that fault geometries are directly used as inputs of PSHA, and the 3D nature of seismicity is preserved because supplementary information such as strike, dip, and rake are also available. However, including faults in PSHA may...

.... Figure 1. Contrasting structural styles that can be applied to outer thrust belt-foreland systems. (a) Thin-skinned detachment-dominated model with thrust faults affecting only the sedimentary cover. (b) Thick-skinned ramp-dominated model including the reverse reactivation of preexisting normal faults...

... subsynthem and fossilizes some faults. The two sandy bodies cropping out at the base of the subsynthem may be correlated with the turbidite stage 2a of the middle system of B oiano (1997) . They were deposited in a NW-SE directed turbidite depositional system during a basin-modifying tectonics stage...