The
Apulia Carbonate Platform in
Apulia,
Italy was a major
palaeogeographic element of the southern margin of the
Mesozoic Tethys Ocean. It is one of the so-called peri-
Adriatic platforms, which are comparable to the
Bahama Banks in their carbonate
facies, shape, size, and
subsidence rate and, also, in the internal architecture.<ref name=D'Argenio1976>D'Argenio B. (1976). Le piattaforme carbonatiche periadriatiche. Una rassegna di problemi nel quadro geodinamico mesozoico dell'area mediterranea.
Società Geologica Italiana, Memorie 13 (1974): 137–159.