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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Hinterland-Verging Thrusting in the Northern Sicily Continental Margin: Evidences for a Late Collisional Stage of the Sicilian Fold and Thrust Belt?

Elisabetta ZizzoAttilio SulliMauro AgateMaurizio Gasparo Morticelli

subject

geographygeography.geographical_feature_categorySubductionPolarity (physics)Central beltlanguage.human_languageBackthrusting Subduction polarity Sicilian Fold and Thrust Belt Central Mediterranean geodynamicsPaleontologyTectonicsContinental marginStage (stratigraphy)Fold and thrust beltlanguageSicilianGeology

description

The Sicilian Fold and Thrust Belt developed during Neogene-Quaternary times characterized by main African-wards tectonic transport direction. Recent investigations highlighted extensive hinterland-verging tectonic structures active during late Pliocene-Pleistocene time suggesting a late collisional stage of the Sicilian Fold and Thrust Belt that could be a precursor of a change in the subduction polarity in the central belt of Mediterranean.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01455-1_54