Inversion Structures along Oblique Lineaments in the Apennine

Inversion tectonics of pre-existing extensional basins produces characteristic hydrocarbon traps. The positive reactivation along N-S oblique extensional paleo-lineaments in both the Central-Southern Apennines of Italy and in the Adriatic foreland occurs and shows different structural geometries with respect to NW-SE extensional paleo-lineaments, in which short-cut thrusts were developed.