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The geological structures of the eastern Calabrian Apenninic front within the Gulf of Taranto, southern Italy, are compared to those of a convergent margin, using simple criteria such as the origin and volume of the sediment supply, and the relative ratio between sediments carried by the sinking plate and those directly supplied by the overriding margin. Based on this criteria we distinguish four main types of sedimentary accretion occurring at convergent continental margins: (a) Pacific type, (b) Indonesian type, (c) Caribbean type, and (d) Apenninic type.
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Mascle, G., Mascle, J. Accretion and tectono-sedimentary progradation: The Taranto Gulf (Southern Italy). Geo-Marine Letters 3, 9–12 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02463435
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