Summer school logistics

Monday Sept. 1 (morning)

Introduction: Calabria in the Tyrrhenian-Apennine system

• General introduction to the summer school (I. Guerra, A. Malinverno)
• Calabria in the Tyrrhenian Sea-Apennine system (A. Malinverno)  (PDF)
  
• Overview of Calabria geology and of recent results (C. Faccenna)  (PDF)
  

References

• Bonardi, G., Cavazza, W., Perrone, V., Rossi, S., 2001. Calabria-Peloritani Terrane and Northern Ionian Sea. In: Vai, G.B., Martini, P. (Eds.), Anatomy of an Orogen: the Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 287-306, 2001.
• Cifelli, F., M. Mattei, and F. Rossetti, Tectonic evolution of arcuate mountain belts on top of a retreating subduction slab: The example of the Calabrian Arc, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B09101, doi:10.1029/2006JB004848, 2007.  (PDF)
  
• Faccenna, C., Funiciello, F., Civetta, L., D’Antonio, M., Moroni, M., and Piromallo, C., Slab disruption, mantle circulation, and the opening of the Tyrrhenian basins, in Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., and Wilson, M., eds., Cenozoic Volcanism in the Mediterranean Area: Geological Society of America Special Paper 418, p. 153–169, doi: 10.1130/2007.2418(08), 2007.  (PDF)
  
• Malinverno, A., and W. B. F. Ryan, Extension in the Tyrrhenian Sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere, Tectonics, 5, 227-245, 1986. (PDF)
• Rossetti, F., Faccenna, C., Goffé, B., Monié, P., Argentieri, A., Funiciello, R., Mattei, M., Alpine structural and metamorphic signature of the Sila Piccola Massif nappe stack (Calabria, Italy): insights for the tectonic evolution of the Calabrian Arc. Tectonics 20, 112-133, 2001.
  
• Rossetti, F., Goffé, B., Monié, P., Faccenna, C., Vignaroli, G. Alpine orogenic P-T-t deformation history of the Catena Costiera area and surrounding regions (Calabrian Arc, southern Italy): the nappe edifice of north Calabria revised with insights on the Tyrrhenian-Apennine system formation. Tectonics 23, TC6011, doi:10.1029/2003TC001560, 2004.

Monday Sept. 1 (afternoon)

CAT-SCAN results and Calabrian Arc project research

(M. Steckler)

References

• Baccheschi P., L. Margheriti, and M. S. Steckler, Seismic anisotropy reveals focused mantle flow around the Calabrian slab (Southern Italy), Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L05302, doi:10.1029/2006GL028899, 2007.  (PDF)
  

• Chiarabba C., P. De Gori, and F. Speranza, The southern Tyrrhenian subduction zone: Deep geometry, magmatism and Plio-Pleistocene evolution, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 268 408-423, 2008.  (PDF)
• Piana Agostinetti, N. Steckler, M. S., and Lucente, F. P., Imaging the subducted slab under the Calabrian Arc, Italy, from receiver function analysis, submitted, 2008.  (PDF)
  

Tuesday Sept. 2 (morning)
Structural geology

• Compressional Tectonics in Northeastern Calabria (M. Reitz)
• Arc-Parallel Extension and Compression: History and Hypotheses (L. Seeber)
• Offshore structures in the Calabrian arc accretionary complex (L. Minelli)

References

• Gvirtzman, Z., and A. Nur.  Residual topography, lithospheric structure, and sunken slabs in the central Mediterranean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 187, 117-130, 2001.  (PDF)
  
• Roveri, M., A. Bernasconi, M.E. Rossi, and C. Visentin, Sedimentary Evolution of the Luna Field Area, Calabria, Southern Italy, In: Generation, Accumulation, and Production of Europe's Hydrocarbons (Edited by Spencer A.M.), Europ. Assoc. Petrol. Geosci., Spec. Publ., 2, 217-224, 1992.  (PDF)
  
• Zecchin, M., F. Massari, D. Mellere, and G. Prosser, Architectural styles of prograding wedges in a tectonically active setting, Crotone Basin, Southern Italy, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 863-880, 2003.  (PDF)
  

Tuesday Sept. 2 (afternoon)
Thermochronology

(M. Steckler)

References

• Ehlers, T. A. and Farley, K. A.,  Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry : methods and applications to problems in tectonic and surface processes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 206, 1-14, 2003.  (PDF)
• Reiners, P. W. and Brandon, M. T., Using Thermochronology to Understand Orogenic Erosion, Annu. Rev. Earth. Planet. Sci., 34, 419-466, 2006.  (PDF)
  

Wednesday Sept. 3

FIELD TRIP: Structural geology

(L. Seeber, M. Reitz)

• Current extensional features (SW of Casabona)
• Accretionary melange emplacement (windmill construction N of Strongoli)
• San Nicola-Rossano fault
• Basement outcrop, kinematics (S of Pallagorio)
• Messinian ramp deformation
• Stresses in the Carvane conglomerate
• Pliocene compression (Belvedere di Spinello)
• W boundary of the system (Acerenzia)
  

Thursday Sept. 4 (morning)

Geomorphology

(C. Stark, T. Dewez, G. Valensise)

• Marine terraces and the Calabrian coast in the late Quatenary - sea-level curves and chronostratigraphic markers
• Fan deltas - processes, morphology, architecture and facies
• The Crati Valley conundrum - how can we reconcile Quaternary terraces and deltas, and what do we then learn about the uplift and faulting history?
  
• Mapping sedimentary architecture in 3d - survey DGPS & calibrated photography to build 3d models of outcrops
  

References

• Colella, A., De Boer, P. L., and Nio, S. D., Sedimentology of a marine intermontane Pleistocene Gilbert-type fan-delta complex in the Crati Basin, Calabria, Southern Italy, Sedimentology, 34, 721-736, 1987. (PDF)
  
• Cucci, L., Raised marine terraces in the Northern Calabrian Arc (Southern Italy): a ~600 kyr-long geological record of regional uplift, Annals of Geophysics, 47, 1391-1406, 2004. (PDF)
  

Thursday Sept. 4 (afternoon)

Geochronology

(J. Schaefer, R. Finkel, S. Huot)

• Systematics of cosmogenic nuclide dating: principles, potential and limitations
• Systematics of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating
  
• Applications to the Calabrian Arc project: (i) cosmogenic burial dating and cosmogenic catchement-wide erosion rate determination; (ii) Optically stimulated luminescence dating of deltas
  

References

• Duller, G. A. T., Luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments: recent advances, J. Quat. Sci., 19,183-192, 2004.  (PDF)
  
• Granger, D. E., and Muzikar, P. F., Dating sediment burial with in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides : theory, techniques, and limitations, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 188, 269-281, 2001.  (PDF)
• von Blanckenburg, F., The control mechanisms of erosion and weathering at basin scale from cosmogenic nuclides in river sediment, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.,  237, 462-479, 2005.  (PDF)

Friday Sept. 5

FIELD TRIP: Geomorphology + geochronology

(C. Stark, T. Dewez)

Crati Valley fan deltas and marine terraces

• Stop #1 - Bisignano town - #1: piazza overlook, #2: roadcut near car park on descent
• Stop #2 - Outskirts of Bisignano -  #1: La Pietà quarry overlook, #2: abandoned quarry nearby
• Optional stop #A - NNE along valley below Tarsia, possible view stop outside Tarsia, older clastics
• Optional stop #B - At junction, exposures of beautiful folds
• Stop #3 - NE past reservoir towards Sant'Agata, stop below Terranova da Sibari - big quarry SW of Sant'Agata
• Stop #4 - Uphill to Terranova da Sibari - reef deposits & view of Sibari plain
• Stop #5 - NW past Spezzano Albanese, on to Mandria Luci, NNE 1km - street stop view of quarry
• Optional stop #C - Back SSW on NW side of Ésaro valley, possible stop at Concio Longo (Colella's SLV site)
• Stop #6 - SSW on NW side of Ésaro valley, loop around mesa, stop near autostrada junction - "Pantano" quarry
• Stop #7 - South over Tarsia ridge back to Crati Valley, turn off S of Stazione di Mongrassano towards Sartano - quarry near Contrada Piscitello
• Stop #8 - Back to main road, S to Cozzo Carbonaro - quarry just NE of Cozzo C.
• Stop #9 - W to Lattarico - view E of Crati Valley and Sila range front, view W of Catena Costiera, view of landslide-prone slopes below town
• Optional stop #D - Back to valley main road, S to Arente, uphill W 2km - quarry exposure of contact with Sila basement

Saturday Sept. 6
FIELD TRIP: Messina Strait area

(G. Valensise, B. Dumas)

• Lazzaro: Uplifted shoreline visible in cross-section, relations between topography, marine terrace, abrasion platform and basal conglomerate, shoreline correlations over torrent valleys.
• Ravagnese: setting of inset marine terraces, dating results, terraces of isotopic stage 5.
  
• Gallico: fault scarp buried by a Gilbert-delta built during Termination 2 and stage 5.5; view on uplifted terraces belonging to stages 5 and 4.
  
• Piale: slickenside deforming marine deposits of substage 5.3 along the Pezzo fault; the Pezzo fault and the stepped uplifted terraces.
  
• Matiniti: stepped Middle Pleistocene marine terraces: an example of identified shoreline associated with a broad abrasion platform truncating the basement.

Field trip guide

• Dumas, B. and Valensise, G., Recent geomorphic evolution and seismogenic  processes in the Messina Straits, 2008.  (PDF)

References

• Catalano S., De Guidi G., Monaco C., Tortorici G., Tortorici L., Long-term behaviour of the Late Quaternary normal faults in the Straits of Messina area (Calabrian arc): structural and morphological constraints. Quaternary International 101-102, 81-91, 2003.  (PDF)
  
• D'Agostino, N. & Selvaggi, G., Crustal motion along the Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary in the Calabrian Arc and Sicily and active extension in the Messina Straits from GPS measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11 402, doi:10.1029/2004JB002998, 2004.  (PDF)
• Dumas B., Guérémy P., Hearty P.J., Lhénaff R., Raffy J., Morphometric analysis and amino-acid geochronology of uplifted shorelines in a tectonic region near Reggio Calabria, South Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 68, 273-289, 1988.  (PDF)
• Dumas B., Guérémy P., Lhénaff R., Raffy J., Rapid uplift, stepped marine terraces and raised shorelines on the Calabrian coast of Messina Strait, Italy. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 18, 241-256, 1993.
• Dumas B., Raffy J., Late Pleistocene tectonic activity deduced from uplifted marine terraces in Calabria, facing the Strait of Messina. Quaternaria nuova, VIII, 79-99, 2004.
• Ferranti, L., F. Antonioli, B. Mauz, A. Amorosi, G. Dai Pra, G. Mastronuzzi, C. Monaco, P. Orrù, M. Pappalardo, U. Radtke, P. Renda, P. Romano, P. Sansò and V. Verrubbi, V., Markers of the last interglacial sea level high stand along the coast of Italy: Tectonic implications. Quaternary International 145-146, 30-54, 2006.  (PDF)
• Ghisetti F., Fault parameters in the Messina Strait (southern Italy) and relations with the seismogenic source. Tectonophysics 210, 117-133, 1992.  (PDF)
• Miyauchi T., Dai Pra G., Sylos Labini S., Geochronology of Pleistocene marine terraces and regional tectonics in the Tyrrhenian coast of South Calabria, Italy. Il Quaternario 7(1), 17-34, 1994.
• Monaco C., Tortorici L., Active faulting in the Calabrian arc and eastern Sicily. Journal of Geodynamics 29, 407-424, 2000.  (PDF)
• Montenat, C., P. Barrier and P. Ott d'Estevou. Some aspects of the recent tectonics in the Strait of Messina, Italy. Tectonophysics, 194, 203-215, 1991.  (PDF)
• Tortorici L., Monaco C., Tansi C., Cocina O., Recent and active tectonics in the Calabrian arc (Southern Italy). Tectonophysics 243, 37-55, 1995.  (PDF)
• Valensise G., Pantosti D., A 125 Kyr-long geological record of seismic source repeatability: the Messina Straits (southern Italy) and the 1908 earthquake (Ms 71/2). Terra Nova 4, 472-483, 1992.  (PDF)

Sunday Sept. 7

Free time

Monday Sept. 8 (morning)
Geodynamic modeling: Introduction

(L. Lavier)

Monday Sept. 8 (afternoon)

Geodynamic modeling: numerical experiments

(L. Lavier)

Tuesday Sept. 9 (morning)

Seismology and earthquake hazard

• Seismicity of the Calabrian Arc from the crust to the mantle: geometry and kinematics of the slab, tomographic images (tomographic methods and results, comparison among different techniques and models, robust features and limitations), seismic anisotropy around the slab, contraints to geodynamic models (A. Amato)
• The large historical earthquakes of Calabria (see Italian earthquakes catalog 1 and
  catalog 2): tsunamigenic earthquakes (?), recent crustal seismicity, kinematics of the region from fault plane solutions, relationship with known faults (see seismogenic source database) 
  
• Seismic hazard: standard methods and conventional results (see seismic hazard maps for Italy and Calabria), new results, vulnerability and seismic risk (see seismic risk map)
  

References

• Baccheschi P., L. Margheriti, and M. S. Steckler, Seismic anisotropy reveals focused mantle flow around the Calabrian slab (Southern Italy), Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L05302, doi:10.1029/2006GL028899, 2007.  (PDF)
• Barberi, G., M. T. Cosentino, A. Gervasi, I. Guerra, G. Neri, B. Orecchio, Crustal seismic tomography in the Calabrian Arc region, south Italy, Phys. Earth Planet. Int, 147, 297-314, 2004.  (PDF)

• Chiarabba, C., L. Jovane, and R. DiStefano, A new view of Italian seismicity using 20 years of instrumental recordings, Tectonophysics, 395, 251-268, 2005.  (PDF)
  
• Chiarabba C., P. De Gori, and F. Speranza, The southern Tyrrhenian subduction zone: Deep geometry, magmatism and Plio-Pleistocene evolution, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 268 408-423, 2008.  (PDF)
• Guerra, I., Harabaglia, P., Gervasi, A., and Rosa, A. B., The 1998-1999 Pollino (Southern Apennines, Italy) seismic crisis: tomography of a sequence, Annals of Geophysics, 48, 995-1007, 2005.  (PDF)
  

Tuesday Sept. 9 (afternoon)

Sedimentology

• Paleogeographic and Paleotectonic reconstructions of the western-central Mediterranean using physical stratigraphy and clastic sediments (S. Critelli)
• Breakup of Pangea, Tethyan rifting and onset of terrestrial clastic sedimentation in the Western-Central Mediterranean: the "Verrucano" and "Pseudoverrucano" units (S. Critelli)
• Tertiary geodynamics in the western-central Mediterranean: from closure of the Tethyan remnant ocean basin and onset of continental collision (S. Critelli)
• Tertiary to Modern tectonic and sedimentation of the peri-Ionian region (S. Critelli)
• Discussion and introduction to the field trip (S. Critelli)

References

• Barone, M., et al., Detrital modes in a Late Miocene wedge-top basin, NE Calabria, Italy: Compositional record of wedge-top partitioning, J. Sedim. Res., 78, 2008. (PDF)
  
• Critelli, S., The interplay of lithospheric flexure and thrust accomodation in forming stratigraphic sequences in the southern Apennines foreland basin system, Italy, Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei, s. 9, 10, 257-326, 1999. (PDF)
• Critelli, S., and Le Pera, E., Post-Oligocene sediment-dispersal systems and unroofing history of the Calabrian microplate, Italy, International Geology Review, 40, 609-637, 1998.  (PDF)
  
• Critelli, S., et al., Compositional and Geochemical Signatures for the Sedimentary Evolution of the Middle Triassic–Lower Jurassic Continental Redbeds from Western-Central Mediterranean Alpine Chains, J. Geol., 116, 375-386, 2008.  (PDF)
• Perrone, V., et al., ‘Verrucano’ and ‘Pseudoverrucano’ in the Central – Western Mediterranean Alpine Chains: palaeogeographical evolution and geodynamic significance, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 262, 1-43, 2006.  (PDF)
  

Wednesday Sept. 10

FIELD TRIP: Sedimentology + Geodesy/seismology installations

(S. Critelli, I. Guerra)

• From Arcavacata to Sila Massif (8:00-9:30)
• 1st stop. Longobucco Village: a brief view of the Paleozoic basements (hercynian plutons and Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks) and the Mesozoic sedimentary Cover (Longobucco Group, Triassic?-Jurassic)  and the Paludi Clastic Formation (late Oligocene-early Miocene) (9:30-12:00)
• From Longobucco to Scala Coeli-Terravecchia-Crucoli (12:00-14:30 including lunch break)
• 2nd stop. Tortonian sedimentary sequences of the Rossano and Crotone Basins and the Cariati Nappe (14:30-16:00)
• If we have time we can go to look at the salt diapir of the Crotone Basin

References

• Bonardi, G., et al.,  Geotraverse across the Calabria-Peloritani terrane (Southern Italy), 32nd Int. Geol. Congress, Field Guide P66, 2004.  (PDF)
  
• Critelli, S., et al., Compositional and Geochemical Signatures for the Sedimentary Evolution of the Middle Triassic–Lower Jurassic Continental Redbeds from Western-Central Mediterranean Alpine Chains, J. Geol., 116, 375-386, 2008.  (PDF)

Thursday Sept. 11 (morning)

Geodesy

• Principles of GPS geodesy (N. D'Agostino)
• Euler vectors, plate motions and convergence in the Mediterranean boundary region (N. D'Agostino)
• The contribution of GPS to the understanding of present-day Calabrian Arc kinematics (N. D'Agostino)
• The Calabrian Arc Project GPS network (M. Nedimovic)
• The contribution of local geodetic measurements to the study of Calabria tectonics (I. Guerra)

References

• Argnani, A., Serpelloni, E., and Bonazzi, C., Pattern of deformation around the central Aeolian Islands: evidence from multichannel seismics and GPS data, Terra Nova, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00753.x, 2007.  (PDF)
  
• D'Agostino, N. and Selvaggi, G., Crustal motion along the Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary in the Calabrian Arc and Sicily and active extension in the Messina Straits from GPS measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11402, doi:10.1029/2004JB002998, 2004.  (PDF)
  
• Gutscher, M.-A., J. Roger, M.-A. Baptista, J. M. Miranda, and S. Tinti, Source of the 1693 Catania earthquake and tsunami (southern Italy): New evidence from tsunami modeling of a locked subduction fault plane, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08309, doi:10.1029/2005GL025442, 2006.  (PDF)
  
• Pondrelli, S., C. Piromallo, and E. Serpelloni, Convergence vs. retreat in Southern Tyrrhenian Sea:  Insights from kinematics, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L06611, doi:10.1029/2003GL019223, 2004.  (PDF)
  

Thursday Sept. 11 (afternoon)

Key questions and ideas for integration

A discussion session to identify key questions about the recent evolution of the Calabrian Arc and ways to address them with multidisciplinary research.

Friday Sept. 12

Student presentations

Each student will be able to present his/her current research plans and results.  The presentations should last about 15 minutes, which should leave plenty of time for discussion.  We are particularly interested in feedback on the impact of the summer school on the students' research.