The Geological-Structural Map of the Central-Southern Apennines (Italy) provides entirely revised and original cartography for a large sector of the orogenic belt that stretches along peninsular Italy. New data collected by the authors over the past 20 years, together with fi eld revisions of published data, and available subsurface data are synthesized in two geological map sheets at scale 1:250,000 giving a regional overview of the stratigraphy, geometry, and structure of the Apenninic fold-and-thrust belt.

Analysis of strain in Jurassic argillites forming part of the folded and thrusted sedimentary succession of the Lagonegro basin (southern Italian Apennines) has been carried out using ellipsoid-shaped 'reduction' spots as strain markers. Most of the determined finite strain ellipsoids are of oblate type and show a peculiar distribution of the maximum extension direction (X), with maxima either subparallel or subperpendicular to the local fold axes.

II conte Enrico Fossa Mancini nacque a Jesi (AN) il 7 dicembre 1884' da Eugenio e Margherita Censi, discendente da nobile famiglia originaria di Arcevia (AN). Compiuti gli studi liceali classici si laured in Giurisprudenza presso l’Universita di Perugia nel 1907 (Frenguelli, 1950; Radice, 1950; Herrero, 1953; Urbani 1992 e 1993). Nel 1909, a Roma, contrasse matrimonio con Caterina Isabella Fabri di S. Vittoria in Matenano (AP), figlia del conte Luigi. Studio poi Fisica all’Universita di Roma, (1909-1910), per trasferirsi infine all’Universita di Pisa (1910-1913), dove consegui la laurea in Scienze Naturali. All’Universita di Pisa Fossa Mancini ebbe tra i suoi maestri il Prof.