• journal_title：Italian Journal of Geosciences
• Contributor：Giacomo Oggiano ; Antonio Funedda ; Luigi Carmignani ; Sandro Pasci
• Publisher：The Electrochemical Society
• Date：2011-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.3301/IJG.2010.26
• journal_abbrev：Italian Journal of Geosciences
• issn：2038-1719
• volume：130
• issue：1
• firstpage：139
• section：Articles

In this reply we stress the role played by the Sardinia-Corsica microplate in the geodynamic evolution of the present-day W-Mediterranean during Tertiary. We answer to each of the seven remarks of the discussion proposed by Dieni & Massari, mainly concerning misleading scientific literature on the age of deposits involved in the strike-slip faults of NE Sardinia. Finally, we summarise and best outline the tectonic features of the whole Sardinia and Corsica microplate, which leads us to discuss the interaction between strike-slip tectonics and the N-Apennine evolution during Oligo-Miocene.