- journal_title：Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana
- Contributor：Mauro Aldinucci ; Enrico Pandeli ; Fabio Sandrelli
- Publisher：The Electrochemical Society
- Date：2008-
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- journal_abbrev：Bollettino della Societa Geologica Italiana
- issn：2038-1719
- volume：127
- issue：3
- firstpage：567
- section：Stratigraphy
In the Northern Apennines, rocks of Late Carboniferous to Carnian age unconformably overlie pre-late Moscovian successful which were deformed and locally metamorphosed during consolidation of the Variscan orogen. The latest Carboniferous to Carnian successions were affected by Alpine metamorphic events and are now preserved in the deep tectonic units of the Northern Apennines (Tuscan Metamorphic units) In Southern Tuscany, they are mostly exposed along the morphostructural alignment referred to as the Monticiano-Roccastrada Ridge (MRR). Despite the Alpine tectonic and metamorphic overprints, the sedimentary features of these rocks are recognisable and suggest that they represent the infill of a continental to marine, long- to short-lived basins the Tuscan palaeogeographic portion of Gondwana the review of the literature, improved with new stratigraphic data on the Late Palaeozoic units cropping out along the MRR led, to provide a palaeogeographic and stratigraphic scenario more complex than previously known in southern Tuscany. Specifically, five informal unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units (UBSU), developed in the Middle Carboniferous-Middle Triassic p.p. time span, and a Middle p.p.-Late Triassic Verrucano succession, have been recognised in the Late Palaeozoic Mesozoic metasediments of the MMR. The recognised UBSU from oldest: 1) synthem A, represented by the Moscovian Sant'Antonio Limestone; 2) synthem B, comprising the late Moscovian-Kasimovian? Spirifer-bearing Schists; 3) synthem C, which is Middle-Late Permian-earliest Triassic? in age includes the Farma, Poggio al Carpino, Carpineta and Poggio alle Pigne fms.; 4) synthem D, consisting of the latest Permian earliest Triassic? Fosso Pianaccia Conglomerate; and 5) synthem E, comprising the Early?-Middle Triassic p.p. Civitella Marittima Fm. The unconformably overlying Verrucano s.s., comprising the Monte Quoio and Anageniti Minute fms., manifests the base of the Alpine sedimentary cycle, even though it cannot be considered a synthem since it is not topped by an unconformity. Except for synthem D, interpreted as the continental infill of erosional depression, stratigraphic-sedimentological evidence along with the regional geodynamic framework, all suggest that extensional/transtensional tectonics was the main controlling factor, producing sedimentary basins where continental to marine successions deposited unconformably over pre late Carboniferous rocks and/or earlier successions. On the whole before the onset of the main Triassic rift phase (recorded by the Verrucano s.s.), five main tectono-sedimentary events are recorded in the MRR.