The record of Messinian events in the Northern Apennines foredeep basins

These notes represent an upgraded version ofthe Field Excursion Guidebook prepared for theInternational Geological Congress held in Florencein 2004 (Roveri et al., 2004).This version retains the general scheme of the2004 fi eld excursion; the programme has beenslightly shortened to be adapted to a three daysfi eld trip.On the other hand, some parts have beenexpanded or modifi ed to incorporate new dataand ideas collected and developed in the lasttwo years by our group. In particular, the newfacies model for primary evaporites, their correlationwith deep-water counterparts as well asthe boreholes data are unpublished data whichwill be the subject of oral presentations duringthis Colloquium.ForewordMany new data derive or benefi t from theresearches carried out within the 2003-2005PRIN-Cofi n Project “The late Messinian LagoMare event: high-resolution stratigraphy, tectonicand climatic control on high-frequency paleoenvironmentalchanges related to the fi nal stageof the Messinian Salinity Crisis of the Mediterraneanarea” (scientifi c coordinator M. Roveri)funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Universityand Research). All the researchers involved in theProject are here acknowledged for the positivescientifi c discussions which helped to improvethis Guidebook.We also gratefully acknowledge the fi nancialsupport from Fondazione Cariparma for thepreparation and printing of this Guidebook.Parma, August 2006 Marco Roveri, Stefano Lugli,Vinicio Manzi