Search results for " Sediment"

Carbonate Platform/Basin system during the Mesozoic: stratigraphic evolution, erosional surfaces and sequence stratigraphy framework

2011

Preliminary results of a crustal seismic profile across Sicily (Italy)

2008

Some considerations on the results of the crustal SIRIPRO profile in central Sicily

2013

Geological results of the crustal SIRIPRO transect in central Sicily

2013

Slope failures along the northern Sicilian continental margin (southern Tyrrhenian sea)

2009

Seismically-induced soft-sediment deformation structures in Upper Triassic deepwater carbonates (Central Sicily)

2016

We describe soft-sediment deformation structures into the Upper Triassic cherty limestone outcropping in the Pizzo Lupo section (Central Sicily, Italy), pertaining to the deep-water palaeodomain of the Southern Tethyan margin. In the study section, mainly consisting of thin-bedded mudstone/marl alternations with bedded chert intercalations, some lithofacies have been separated on the basis of the abundance of the calcium carbonate/clay content and the overall textural features. The deformational structures, displaying different deformational styles as folded and faulted beds, disturbed layers, clastic dikes, and slumps occur mainly in the deformed horizons that involve marl-dominated lithof…

Stratigraphy in the study area

2011

STOP 2-Mesozoic and Cenozoic carbonates of the Imerese basin along the Rocca di Sclafani Bagni outcrop

2011

Subduction-related structures and geodinamic evolution of SE Sicily-Calabria offshore

2008

Development, human impact and habitat distribution in submarine canyons of the Central and Western Mediterranean

2015

We present in this paper different studies on canyon systems, adopting distinct approaches, temporal and spatial scales. Most of our study areas coincide with the NW Sicilian canyons, which present striking differences in their morphologies in response to the Plio-Quaternary tectonic evolution of the northern Sicilian margin. In the present-day, active sedimentary processes inferred from bedform analyses along some of the studied canyons could drive to enhanced biological activities along them. This is also confirmed by an on-going study of the impact of trawling fishery on the morphology and sedimentary environments of the Sicilian margin, where intense deep-sea bottom trawling activities …