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Quaternary marine and continental unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units of the NW Sicily coastal belt

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  • Mauro Agate
  • Luca Basilone
  • Cipriano Di Maggio
  • Antonio Contino
  • Salvatore Pierini
  • Raimondo Catalano

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In the coastal sector of NW Sicily, the regional correlation of relevant unconformities recognised within the Quaternary sedimentary successions allowed the mapping of seven unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units (UBSUs). The regional unconformities are marine or subaerial erosional surfaces, as well as non-depositional surfaces, locally marked by paleosoils. The erosional surfaces were produced from marine abrasion, surface water overland/concentrated flow, river erosion, karst solution, mass movement, or wind erosion. The main lithofacies of the Quaternary UBSUs consist of: (a) marine and coastal bioclastic calcarenites, (b) aeolian sandstones, (c) river deposits, (d) colluvial deposits, (e) talus slope deposits, (f) landslide deposits, and (g) chemical carbonates (travertines and speleothems). Quaternary environmental changes, due to tectonics, climate, and sea-level oscillations, are the causes that favoured the development of erosion/deposition processes responsible for the genesis of unconformities and deposits. As a result, through the UBSU map of the NW Sicilian coastal belt, it is possible to: (i) recognise stratigraphic units controlled by tectonic, climatic, and environmental processes (and their interplay) and (ii) detect Quaternary sedimentary evolution.

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  • Mauro Agate & Luca Basilone & Cipriano Di Maggio & Antonio Contino & Salvatore Pierini & Raimondo Catalano, 2017. "Quaternary marine and continental unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units of the NW Sicily coastal belt," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2), pages 425-437, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:13:y:2017:i:2:p:425-437
    DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2017.1314229
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