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LARGE LANDSLIDES AND NEOTECTONICS: A CASE STUDY IN WESTERN SICILY

2009

The study area is located in the western sector of the Sicanian Mounts where the superimposition, consequence of the Miocene and Lower Pliocene tectonic transpressive phases, of different geologic bodies, having vergence to the southern quadrants, can be observed. In this area, the neo-autochthonous deposits are given by marly-clayey sediments of middle-upper Pliocene, pertaining to the “Marnoso-arenacea” Formation of the Belice Valley, and by Pleistocene calcarenites. The recent extensional tectonic crisis (neotectonics) have further dissected and dismembered the original structural edifice, involving also the Pleistocene calcarenites, which show tectonic displacements mainly NE – SW orien…