Geology of the north-eastern margin of the High Agri Valley (western Basilicata, southern Italy)

This contribution aims at anticipating the results of a recent structural study that has been carried out in the central domain of the Lucanian Apennines in southern Italy. Compilation of an original 1:25,000 scale geological map, integrated with stratigraphic data and structural/kinematic evidence along the NE edge of the Agri Valley, provides critical elements that make it possible to discriminate the effects of recent, seismically active deformations, related to the dissection of the southern Apennine fold-and-thrust belt, from those related to pre-orogenic deformations of Mesozoic age, inherited from rifting and drifting of Adria.