The Northern Apennines are a fold---thrust belt formed during the Tertiary by the tectonic superposition from W to E of the Ligurides on the Tuscan nappe and on the Tuscan metamorphic complex (Boccaletti et al., 1971; Alvarez et al., 1974; Kligfield, 1979). The ophiolite-bearing Ligurides derived from the southern extension of the Ligurian---Piedmont ocean, from which similar mafic components of the Western Alps also derive (Fig. 14.1). The Tuscan units derived from the continental palaeomargin of the Adria microplate and contain a Hercynian continental basement with its upper Carboniferous Tertiary cover (Vai, this vol., Ch. 10).
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Carmignani, L., Decandia, F. A., Disperati, L., Fantozzi, P. L., Kligfield, R., Lazzarotto, A., … Meccheri, M. (2001). Inner Northern Apennines. In Anatomy of an Orogen: the Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins (pp. 197–213). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9829-3_14
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