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Maria Simona Cacciatore
Carbonate Platform-Basin Transition in SW Sicily. Implications for the Petroleum Exploration in the Maghrebian Thrust and Fold Belt
Facies Architecture and Evolution of a Cretaceous, Tectonically-Controlled, Carbonate Slope from Western Sicily (Italy)
The stratigraphic architecture of a Cretaceous carbonate slope from north western Sicily (Italy) has been reconstructed on the basis of detailed field sections. The wire cut walls of a number of quarries that extract the Cretaceous limestones as ornamental stones allowed the mapping of the stratal architecture and lithologies at various scales. The vertical and lateral facies relationships in this about 1000 m thick depositional system account for a complex sedimentary dynamics along a carbonate platform escarpment that was strongly influenced by syn-sedimentary transtensional tectonics associated to magmatism. Although the original relationships with the carbonate platform were obscured by…
Triassic/Jurassic carbonates from Western Sicily: their facies and implications for the end-Triassic biotic crisis.
Tectonic retreat of a segment of the Triassic paleomargin of the Saccense Carbonate Platform around the T/J boundary: the seismic-scale section of Monte Genuardo
Architecture of an Upper Triassic-Jurassic platform-basin transition from the southern margin of the Ionian Tethys: Sciacca zone, Sicily.
The genus Palaeolituonella (Foraminifer) and description of Palaeolituonella angulata nov. sp. from Upper Triassic reef limestones of the Tethys
New stratigraphic data on the Jurassic biosiliceous sediments from the Sicanian Basin (Western Sicily)
Geological framework of Sicily and the Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphic evolution
New data on the Triassic-Jurassic deep-water succession of Campofiorito (Sicanian Domain, Western Sicily)
Upper Triassic-Jurassic carbonate Platform-Pelagic Plateau Systems From Western Sicily
A MESOZOIC PALEOMARGIN in WESTERN SICILY, its TERTIARY EVOLUTION and its PRESENT-DAY SEISMOGENETIC POTENTIAL
A segment of the Ionian margin in the Sciacca zone, Sicily.
Carbonate platform-basin systems of Sicily through the Triassic/Jurassic Boundary: Stratigraphic constraints for the paleogeographic reconstructions.
Facies architecture of the Upper Triassic margin from the Panormide Carbonate Platform: the Cozzo di Lupo section
Carbonate slope re‐sedimentation in a tectonically‐active setting (Western Sicily Cretaceous Escarpment, Italy)
Tectonic processes are widely considered as a mechanism causing carbonate platform margin instabilities leading to the emplacement of mass transport deposits and calciturbidites. However, only few examples establishing a clear link between tectonics and re-sedimentation processes are known from the lit- erature. The two-dimensional and three-dimensional wire-cut walls of hun- dreds of quarries extracting ornamental limestones (for example, Perlato di Sicilia) from the Western Sicily Cretaceous Escarpment in Italy expose a series of mass transport deposits. The depositional architecture, spatial facies distri- bution and sedimentary features of these deposits were studied in detail. Thin sec…
A regional-scale discontinuity in western Sicily revealed by a multidisciplinary approach: A new piece for understanding the geodynamic puzzle of the southern Mediterranean
The results of an integrated stratigraphic, structural, geophysical, and geochemical study reveal the presence of a crustal discontinuity in western Sicily that, at present, runs roughly N-S along a band from San Vito Lo Capo to Sciacca (SVCS). The boundary between the two zones of this discontinuity is nearly orthogonal to the main thrust propagation of the Sicilian thrust-and-fold belt. The different Permian to Tertiary sedimentary evolution recorded by the two zones appears related to this discontinuity, with thick carbonate platforms in the western sector facing deep-water successions in the eastern one. The presence of Upper Triassic reefs, huge megabreccias bodies, and widespread subm…
A Cretaceous carbonate escarpment from Western Sicily (Italy): biostratigraphy and tectono-sedimentary evolution
Abstract The presence of a huge carbonate slope of Cretaceous age is recorded in some imbricated thrust sheets from the Maghrebian fold-and-thrust belt cropping out in northwesternmost Sicily (southern Italy). The sedimentological features of this escarpment, named as the Western Sicily Cretaceous Escarpment (WSCE), have been recently described. The present paper aims to provide a detailed bio-chronostratigraphic characterization of the different facies types that occur in the four lithostratigraphic units spanning the whole slope depositional system. The detailed biostratigraphic analysis and correlation of a number of well-exposed sections allowed to differentiate eight informal biozones …
Evidence of Middle Triassic to Carnian shallow-water limestones from megabreccia intercalations in the Carnian Mufara Formation: Cozzo Paparina (Altofonte)
A regional-scale discontinuity in western Sicily revealed by a multidisciplinary approach: A new piece for understanding the geodynamic puzzle of the southern Mediterranean
The results of an integrated stratigraphic, structural, geophysical, and geochemical study reveal the presence of a crustal discontinuity in western Sicily that, at present, runs roughly N-S along a band from San Vito Lo Capo to Sciacca. The boundary between the two zones of this discontinuity is nearly orthogonal to the main thrust propagation of the Sicilian thrust-and-fold belt. The different Permian to Tertiary sedimentary evolution recorded by the two zones appears related to this discontinuity, with thick carbonate platforms in the western sector facing deepwater successions in the eastern one. The presence of Upper Triassic reefs, huge megabreccia bodies, and widespread submarine vol…
Record of the end-Triassic crisis in south-western Sicily: palaeoenvironmental changes reflected by the carbonate facies architecture.
Carbonate platform-basin systems in Sicily around the Triassic/Jurassic boundary: new data from the Campofiorito area (Sicani Mountains, western Sicily)
Foglio 619, Santa Margherita di Belice
End Triassic karstification of a south Tethyan carbonate platform: the genesis of the “Libeccio Antico” a famous Baroque dimension stone.
New data on the Upper Triassic reefs of Western Sicily: stratigraphic constraints for the paleogeographic reconstruction of the Sicanian and Trapanese-Saccense Domains
Carbonate Platform-Basin Transition in SW Sicily. Implications for the paleogeographic reconstruction of the Central Mediterranean area.
Architecture and dynamics of a Maghrebian carbonate platform-basin transition around the Triassic/Jurassic Boundary: Sciacca zone, Sicily.
Paleokarstic overprint on the Panormide Carbonate Platform (Sicily)around the T/J boundary
The migration path of Gondwanian dinosaurs toward Adria: New insights from the Cretaceous of NW Sicily (Italy)
Abstract The increasing dinosaur record from Italy questioned classic palaeogeographic scenarios for the Central Mediterranean area and suggest the proximity of landmass areas and a geographical connection between Gondwana and Laurasia during Cretaceous times. Besides several track-sites and exceptionally-preserved specimens (e.g. Scipionyx samniticus), the Italian dinosaur record also consists of isolated bones, among which the bone fragment of a theropod discovered in north-western Sicily. The bone occurs in a shallow-water carbonate succession (i.e. Pizzo Muletta, Palermo Mountains) pertaining to the Panormide Carbonate Platform (PCP). The bone was previously ascribed to the Cenomanian, …