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The Venetian Alps thrust belt

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Thrust Tectonics

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The Venetian part of the Southern Alps (N Italy) is a Neogene south-vergent thrust belt. The minimum shortening of the chain is 30 km. The thrusts trend N60°-80°E and show an inherited N10°W-N10°E normal fault pattern of the Mesozoic continental margin. These earlier features strongly controlled the evolution of the following oblique thrust belt. Structural undulations along strike of folds and thrusts occur in correspondence to Mesozoic faults, thickness and facies variations. The thrusts are arranged in an imbricate fan geometry. A frontal triangle zone laterally ends at transfer faults. Earlier stages of the thrust belt were characterized by frontal triangle zones which have later been involved and cut by the progression of the internal thrusts.

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Doglioni, C. (1992). The Venetian Alps thrust belt. In: McClay, K.R. (eds) Thrust Tectonics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3066-0_29

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