ABSTRACT
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ABSTRACT
The Alpine Belt in Corsica in charaterised by the occurrence of several continental units stack (Lower Continental Units), located along the boundary between two main geological domains, referred as Hercynian (to the West) and Alpine Corsica (to the East) respectively.
This units stack includes slice detached from the Corsican/European continental margin and involved in the Alpine orogeny.
The investigated area is located in the central part of the island, in the zone between Corte and Francardo.
The aim of this thesis is to produce a geological map of the study area, a lithostratigraphic outline of the outcropping units and to understand their deformation history.
The collected data supports the model where large portion of the Corsica/European continental margin were deformed under HP/LP metamorphism condition during their involvement in the tectonics connected with Alpine subduction and were subsequently juxtaposed against the metamorphic and non-metamorphic oceanic units during a complex exumation history.
