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(Northern Apennines)
Sibillini Mountains
(Northern Apennines)
Sibillini Mountains
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Aptian
Tithonian
Reduced Sequence
but lack of subsidence suggests
a horizontal detachment surface
fault geometry is uncertain at depth,
water depths of over a kilometre; Abruzzi platform remains at shallow depths.
Isolated carbonate seamounts, Italy
INCIPIENT DROWNING
DROWNING
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tops are still rather shallow as shown by hermatypic corals but carbonate production is severely reduced.
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Abruzzi Platform
NO VERTICAL EXAGGERATION
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drowning of the seamounts occurs and the basin is levelled off by the Aptian. Entire northern Apennines Basin subsides to
Fig. 11. (Cont.) (c) Stage of incipient drowning continues into the Tithonian. Basins fill with pelagic sediments; seamount
(d) Complete