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This work focuses on the 3D modeling and structural analysis of the Monte Testo syn-sedimentary structure, developed in the Early Jurassic Calcari Grigi Group of the Trento carbonate platform (Southern Alps, Italy). Significant changes in the facies architecture of the platform sedimentary units, occurred across a global perturbation of the Carbon cycle at the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian boundary, are associated with evidences of syn-sedimentary tectonics. In particular, an early cemented oolitic sedimentary body with a high initial porosity (Loppio Oolitic Limestone) was broken-up and tilted by a pulse of rifting and overlain by tight marls and marly limestones (lower Rotzo Formation) that display sharp changes in thickness across the syn-sedimentary faults. This complex setting creates conditions potentially favorable to hydrocarbon accumulation. In this work, the Monte Testo structure is presented as a conceptual analogue of a hydrocarbon reservoir that may develop thanks to the overlap of the effects of extensional tectonics and climate change-induced modifications in the carbonate platform facies. A 3D geo-model was realized to obtain information about the genesis and tectonic evolution of the structure. Hence, a potential porosity distribution in the 3D model was evaluated showing that such extensional structure, which has a vertical extent of 500 m and covers an area of 15 km 2 , could have been associated to a total pore volume of 2.24 × 10 7 m 3 at the time of its formation. Results suggest that in rifting contexts the combined effect of syn-sedimentary faulting and facies variations related to perturbations in the global carbon cycle could generate potential reservoirs in carbonate platforms.

A field trip across the central-eastern sector of the Southern Alps, from the foreland to the Giudicarie fold-and thrust belt, is here described. The field trip, which was held on 12-13 July 2017, followed the Annual Meeting of the Gruppo Italiano di Geologia Strutturale (GIGS) of the Italian Geological Society. It was organized by the Geoscience Department of the University of Padova as a 2-day itinerary in Veneto and Trentino. This guide provides a geological overview of the main structural domains of the central-eastern Southern Alps (the Giudicarie and Schio-Vicenza domains) and focuses on evidence of past and present brittle deformation, principally within carbonate rocks of Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous age. The itinerary and Stop descriptions are particularly devoted to observation and discussion of exhumed faults, present and past seismicity, large landslides/rock avalanches of Holocene to historic age, and their interactions. The observation of specific outcrops is also combined with spectacular panoramas illustrating the regional tectonic setting of the Southern Alps and of the nearby Austroalpine units.