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The Italian peninsula and the bordering seas have been involved in Neogene to Recent deformation, and show a rapid crustal age variation. This is clearly expressed by the transition from the Quaternary SE Tyrrhenian oceanic crust to the possible late Proterozoic age of the Panafrican consolidated NE Apulian continental crust (Vai, 1994), which occurs in over a distance of only 170 km. Between the two, several other crustal provinces are found in this relatively small area.
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Vai, G.B. (2001). Basement and early (pre-Alpine) history. In: Vai, G.B., Martini, I.P. (eds) Anatomy of an Orogen: the Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9829-3_10
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