The compactness and continuity of the Apulia carbonate platform, outcropping on the
Salento peninsula, contrasts with the structural complexity that developed during the
Mesozoic–Miocene in the most southern region, which was later affected by the Neogenic
compression of the Calabrian and Hellenic Chains. Although the north-eastern margin of the
Apulia carbonate platform has been clearly defined by seismic profiles in the South Adriatic
basin, the identification of the southern platform margin and the transition between the …