Geological map of the RoccaBusambra-Corleone region (western Sicily, Italy) : explanatory notes
Flysch ; Geología regional ; Geomorfología estructural ; Italia ; Mapa geológico ; Mesozoíco ; Plataforma ; Roca carbonatada ; Sicilia ; Tectónica
The geology of the RoccaBusambra-Corleone region, in centralwestern Sicily, is relevant to the understanding of the central sector of the Maghrebian-Sicilian fold-and-thrust belt. In the investigated area Mesozoic shallow- and deep-water carbonate
(the RoccaBusambra carbonate ridge) and the overthrusting Sicanian deepwater carbonate (Corleone-Barracù) and numidian flysch tectonic units, outcropping around the carbonate ridge. - (NF)
A detailed study has been carried out, integrating biostratigraphy, sedimentology and physical stratigraphy, on Albian-Eocene pelagic sediments (Hybla and Amerillo formations) of the western sector of RoccaBusambra (Trapanese Domain, Western Sicily
and biostratigraphic data show that, starting from the late Albian and up to the Eocene, the RoccaBusambra stood as a margin of a submarine plateau dissected by faults in two main distinct episodes of Albian and Paleocene-Eocene age. In such a morphostructural setting