Detecting syn-orogenic extension and sediment provenance of the Cilento wedge top basin (southern Apennines, Italy). Mineralogy and geochemistry of fine-grained sediments and petrography of dispersed organic matter
Wedge-top basins can provide highly sensitive information on the uplift and erosion history of an evolving collisional belt, but their burial and thermal history has generally been neglected because their siliciclastic infill records the very low temperature history, which is difficult to detect. This paper provides an integrated approach for defining the first order tectonic events shaping the southern Apennines in Neogene times through the study of a wedge-top basin.