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Depositional architecture and geometric arrangement of Terravecchia Formation within the Scillato Basin (NW Sicily)

2008

Scillato Basin Terravecchia Formation Late Tortonian Syntectonic sedimentation Sicily
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Using high-resolution stratigraphy and structural analysis to constrain a “polyphase” tectonics in wedge-top basins. Inferences from the Late Tortoni…

2012

Abstract The present paper aims to show, both from a stratigraphic and structural points of view, the main features of a wedge-top syntectonic basin which evolved recording polyphase and non-coaxial tectonics. The study area is the Scillato Basin ( SB ), a roughly N–S-oriented structural depression located in the central-northern sector of the Sicililian Maghrebides. There, an approximately 1300 m-thick upper Serravallian to upper Tortonian succession of clastic units outcrops as a portion of the Neogene syntectonic covers of the Sicilian fold and thrust belt. Within the outcropping succession the upper Tortonian Terravecchia Fm represents the main topic of this paper. A multidisciplinary a…

geographygeography.geographical_feature_categorySettore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E SedimentologicaStratigraphyGeologyLate MioceneStructural basinNeogeneSedimentary depositional environmentTectonicsPaleontologyFold and thrust beltFaciesSedimentary rockTectonics and sedimentation Polyphase evolution Deep-seated tectonics Central-northern Sicily Late Tortonian Terravecchia FormationGeology
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