Apulia foreland

The volcanic centers of the Campania Province developed inside Quaternary extensional basins along the Tyrrhenian Sea border at the intersection between NE-SW and NW-SE fault systems. The Pontine Islands form a row of volcanoes with a W-E trend, offshore the Campania Province, and along the so-called 41st Parallel Tectonic Line (Serri 1990 Bruno et al. 2000). Vulture is located at the eastern border of the Apennine compression front, in an extensional tectonic setting affecting the border of the Apulia foreland. 

The thickness of the lithosphere along the Pontine-Campania-Vulture transect increases from about 50 km along the Tyrrhenian Sea border to more than 110 km in the Apulia foreland (Calcagnile and Panza 1981). The depth of the Moho increases from about 20-25 km offshore the Tyrrhenian Sea coast to 40 km beneath the internal zones of the Apennines, to decrease to about 30 km beneath the Apulia foreland (e.g. Locardi and Nicolich 1988 Piromallo and Morelli 2003). In contrast with other zones of the Apennine chain, the sector running from the Campania Province to... 

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