Oligocene-Miocene foredeep deposits in the Lake Trasimeno area (Central Italy): insights into the evolution of the Northern ApenninesApennine evolution

In the Trasimeno Lake area (Umbria Region), several thrust sheets belonging to the Sansepolcro-Monte Filoncio and Rentella Units, are interposed between the Tuscan Nappe (in the hanging- wall) and the Umbria-Romagna Unit (in the footwall). The thrust sheets succession of the Sansepolcro-Monte Filoncio Unit is made up of Rupelian-Chattian Scaglia toscana Fm. and Chattian-Aquitan- ian foredeep deposits of Macigno Fm.; the base of the siliciclastic succession becomes gradually younger eastward. The compositional mode of the fine-grained rock fragments in the arenaceous turbidites is comparable with that of the upper part of the Macigno Fm. in the Tuscan Nappe. The succession of the Rentella Unit includes Rupelian-Aquitan- ian Monte Rentella Fm. and Aquitanian-Burdigalian foredeep silici- clastic turbidites of the Montagnaccia Fm.. In the lower portion of the Montagnaccia Fm. a level of black cherty horizons is present, as detected in all Aquitanian-Burdigalian successions of the Northern Apennines. The compositional mode of the fine-grained rock frag- ments in the turbidites is comparable with that of Marnoso-Are- nacea Fm.. All these data allow an Oligocene-Miocene paleogeographic reconstruction of the Northern Apennines foredeep. Based on the age, the compositional mode and structural position, the Rentella and Sansepolcro-Monte Filoncio Units can be compared to the Carigiola and Acquerino Units cropping out in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.