(a) Seismic section from the Mid-Adriatic Ridge (location in Fig. 1) showing a polyphase inversion structure composed of several Dinaric up-thrusts (DUT) and related folds having an Upper Cretaceous-Oligocene (growth coeval with the onset of the Dinaric foreland contractional deformation and a later reactivation during the Pliocene-Quaternary Apennine phase. (b and c) Close-ups of the seismics with the cosine of phase attribute showing the two phases of growth and inversion (modified after Pace et al., 2015 and Calamita et al., 2021).