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This discussion on a report by Mascle and Mascle provides some information on the structure of the Apenninic orogenic belt. A number of structural scenarios can be recognized in the Apenninic fold belt; chaotic, melange-like, thrusted sheets are or are not associated with deeper compressional structures affecting coherent stratigraphic sequences at least as old as Trias. Variations and combinations of these structural frames cannot be simply summarized by a scheme, but can be used as basic category in a comparison of ocean ic-subduction complexes.

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  1. Institute Dolomieu, Université de Grenoble, France

    Georges Mascle

  2. Laboratoire de Géodynamique Sous-Marine, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

    Jean Mascle

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Mascle, G., Mascle, J. Commentary. Geo-Marine Letters 5, 199–202 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02281639

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