Objective Definition of a geodynamic model of the Apennines - north of 40.5º and south of 43.5º,from Miocene to the present. Collection of original data on crustal and upper mantlestructure and anisotropy, tectonic evolution in brittle and ductile environment, tectonicrotations in Neogene units, present-day state of stress and deformation rates. Constructionof analogic and numerical models of the Tyrrhenian-Apennines system. Collection and processing of new GPS data in the Southern and the Northern Apennines,using existing vertices, and installing new ones to increase the coverage in the mostinteresting areas. The use of different codes and the independent data processing by twodifferent groups will be applied to better constrain and control the results.Compilation of a new catalogue of seismic moments of strong historical earthquakes (since1400 AD), estimated from the distribution of felt intensities, to assess the amount ofcoseismic deformation occurred in the past six centuries.Definition of the lithosphere-asthenosphere structure beneath the Apennines by means ofseismic tomography applied to high quality digital data collected by the ING network since1987. Deployment of two temporary seismological linear arrays across the Apennines, toinfer Moho depth and dip from teleseismic receiver functions, and to investigate anisotropicstructures in the upper mantle.Compilation of a database containing present-day stress data, including borehole breakoutmeasurements in the deep wells of Tyrhhenian Latium and Tuscany and in the Apenninicchain, foredeep, and foreland; fault plane solutions of earthquakes occurred in the Apenninessince 1988.Palaeomagnetic analyses of Neogene units at the compressional front of the Apennines, insome intra-mountain basins and in the Tyrrhenian extensional margin, to recognize tectonicrotations. AMS (Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility) analyses on the same units for thedefinition of the strain pattern.Field observations in both the brittle and the ductile deformation regimes of the NorthernApennines, including analysis of oriented cores from deep geothermal wells. Constructionof a crustal profile to describe the tectonic evolution and investigate the relationship betweendeep and surface deformation.Two- and three-dimensional analogic models of the Apennines/Tyrrhenian system, withproperly scaled laboratory experiments and different rheologies, to model thesubduction/collision processes.Two-and three-dimensional numerical modelling based both on commercial and academicfinite element codes, to determine the long wavelength features of the stress and strain fieldin the Apennines, and the short wavelength features in the contact region between Apenninesand the Adriatic plate. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040101 - Seismic hazard Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica Address Via vigna murata 605 00143 Roma Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Ente Nazionale per l'Energia Elettrica SpA (ENEL) Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viale regina margherita 137 00198 Roma See on map THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Parks road OX1 3PR Oxford See on map UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viale berti pichat 8 40127 Bologna See on map Université de Paris VI (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 4 place jussieu 75252 Paris See on map Universià degli Studi di Roma Tre Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via ostiense 169 00154 Roma See on map École Normale Supérieure France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 24 rue lhomond 75231 Paris See on map
