| Abstract: | The geological evolution of the external domains of the Northern Carpathians and Southern Apennines is compared and two models of flysch basins are proposed. The first, related to a tensile stage of the orogeny, is applied only to the Northern Carpathian area during the Cretaceous; the latter, related to a compressive stage, is present in both areas during the Cenozoic. The different evolutions of the basins have counterparts in the present-day continental margin and the thinning of the crust during the tensile stage controls the flysch sedimentation in the first model and, during the compressive stage of subduction along mobile plate junctions, enables the accumulation of deposits in trench-like basins to take place. |
