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Carbonate slope re‐sedimentation in a tectonically‐active setting (Western Sicily Cretaceous Escarpment, Italy)

2020

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…

010506 paleontologygeographyPillow lavageography.geographical_feature_categoryCarbonate platformStratigraphyGeochemistryGeologyEscarpment010502 geochemistry & geophysics01 natural sciencesCretaceousSedimentary depositional environmentTectonicsFaciesGeneral Earth and Planetary SciencesSedimentary rockGeologyCarbonate slope Cretaceous mass transport deposits re-deposited facies tectonics0105 earth and related environmental sciencesGeneral Environmental ScienceSedimentology
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FACIES HETEROGENEITY AND SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES ALONG A TECTONICALLY-CONTROLLED CARBONATE SLOPE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE CRETACEOUS OF WESTERN SICILY (I…

2020

Carbonate slope Cretaceous mass transport deposits re-deposited facies biostratigraphy rudists tectonicsSettore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E Sedimentologica
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