Integrated geophysical-petrological modeling of the lithospheric mantle along the northern Apennines, Dinarides and Pannonian Basin

GeoMod 2021 conference , September 19-23, Utrecht, The NetherlandsThe target area of this work is located at the junction between the Central Mediterranean Sea and the Alpine- Carpathian orogenic belt (Fig. 1). The present-day crust and upper mantle structure of this area results from a complex tectonic scenario mainly driven by subduction of Tethyan oceanic domains, which results in orogenic belts (Apennines, Dinarides, and Carpathians) separated by extensional back-arc basins (Tyrrhenian and Pannonian) and the Adriatic microplate. During the last decades, this area has been surveyed by several geological and geophysical studies. However, the majority of them ignore the role of the petrophysical features, including chemical composition and phase transitions, on the physical properties in the lithospheric mantle. Here, we aim to derive the present-day crust and upper mantle structure (up to 400 km depth) along an about 1070 km long geo-transect, crossing the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, the Northern Apennines, the Adriatic Sea, the Dinarides fold belt, and the Pannonian back-arc basin (Fig. 1).This research has been funded by the GeoCAM Project (PGC2018-095154-B-I00) with the contribution of the China Scholarship Council