Apulian plate

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The Adriatic or Apulian plate is a small tectonic plate that broke away from the African plate along a large transform fault in the Cretaceous period. The name Adriatic plate is used only when the northern part of the plate is concerned. This part of the plate was deformed during the Alpine orogeny, when the Apulian plate collided with the European plate.

The Apulian plate is still moving independently of the European plate, the fault zone that separates the two is the Periadriatic Seam that runs through the Alps.

The Italian Peninsula and the Adriatic Sea are on the Apulian plate. Mesozoic sedimentary rocks deposited on the plate include the limestones that form the Southern Calcareous Alps.

 

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