Speleological and Speleogenetic Aspects of the Monti di Capo San Vito (Sicily)

Ruggieri, Rosario

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“…), just above the present‐day talus. With an ENE–WSW direction, the cave (Ruggieri , ; Ruggieri & Messina Panfalone ) extends nearly sub‐horizontally, following the local layering, and almost parallel and very close to the cliff slope, for about 80 m. The Rumena Cave consists of several aligned chambers (Fig. ) connected by very low passages and separated by pillars and pendants with a mean width of 2.5 m (but up to 4–5 m in the widest portions) and a height of 1 m (reaching about 2.5 m in the widest chambers).…”

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Exceptional record of submarine cave communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy)

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An Early Pleistocene benthic community, discovered inside the Rumena Cave in NW Sicily, Italy, was studied. Analysis of the community led to the recognition of several encrusting species – notably scleractinians, bryozoans, serpuloideans, cirripeds, foraminifera and brachiopods – and borings mostly referable to the ichnogenus Gastrochaenolites. All fossils detected are typical of the present‐day hard‐surface submarine cave biota, at both high taxonomic rank and species level. The biogenic crust, restricted to a few sectors of the cave but locally up to few centimetres thick, largely consist of scleractinians, mainly represented by dendrophylliids. Bryozoans and serpuloideans are also present with Hippaliosina depressa and Spiraserpula massiliensis, locally forming multi‐layered sheets and dense specimen aggregates, respectively. Basing mostly on the composition of the encrusting community and on morphological/morphometric features of some species, it has been hypothesized that at least part of the cave was blind when the crust formed, possibly at relatively shallow depth in a sheltered setting or, more probably, at higher depths, below the fair weather swell zone. Encrustations and borings on the rocky cave ceiling and on occasional speleothems broken surfaces document subsequent phases of cave submersion/colonization separated by emersion/erosion phases. The importance of the Early Pleistocene fossils of the Rumena Cave for the knowledge of submarine cave communities through time and for the understanding of sea‐level variations and the uplift of the area has been remarked.

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“…The Rumena Cave can be considered as a ‘flank margin cave’ (see Ruggieri ) originated through corrosion due to salinity gradient in a mixing zone located near the coastline. Subsequent marine ingression caused the cavity to be flooded by the sea, which remodelled and possibly widened the entire cave and its opening(s).…”

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Exceptional record of submarine cave communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy)

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“…Nadvse zanimiv kras področja Capo San Vito na zahodu Sicilije ponuja večino izrazitih značilnosti trirazsežne pokrajine, kraško površje, jame in svojevrstno pretakanje vode ter obmorski razvoj (Ruggieri 2009(Ruggieri , 2015. Površje je večinoma škrapljasto, tako ob morju kot v višjem zaledju.…”

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“…The terraces are, sometimes covered by continental or marine deposits and separated from each other by modestly sized banks and irregular cliffs. They have been carved by sea-notches, or more frequently, by shelters and caves, both of marine and karst in origin (Ruggieri 2015).…”

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Karren above Custonaci (Sicily, Italy)

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Ruggieri²,

Slabe³

2019

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Martin Knez, Rosario Ruggieri & Tadej Slabe: Karren above Custonaci (Sicily, Italy)The extremely interesting karst of the Capo San Vito area in western Sicily displays the majority of the distinct characteristics of the three-dimensional landscape: karst surfaces, caves, unique water trickling systems, and maritime development (Ruggieri, 2009(Ruggieri, , 2015. By the sea as well as higher in the hinterland, the surface is mostly karren-like. This part of the planned study of the formation of the entire rock surface of this karst presents the results of studying the slope karren above Custonaci. They reveal the development of karren from subsoil karren and the characteristic formation of the karst surface in this area and on this rock. IzvlečekUDK 551.435.81(450.82) Martin Knez, Rosario Ruggieri & Tadej Slabe: Škraplje nad Custonacijem (Sicilija, Italija)Nadvse zanimiv kras področja Capo San Vito na zahodu Sicilije ponuja večino izrazitih značilnosti trirazsežne pokrajine, kraško površje, jame in svojevrstno pretakanje vode ter obmorski razvoj (Ruggieri 2009(Ruggieri , 2015. Površje je večinoma škrapljasto, tako ob morju kot v višjem zaledju. Tokrat so pri načrtovani proučitvi oblikovanja celotnega skalnega površja tega krasa predstavljeni izsledki proučevanja pobočnih škrapelj nad Custonacijem. Razkrivajo razvoj škrapelj iz podtalnih škrapelj in značilno oblikovanje kraškega površja v tem okolju in kamnini.

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North-Western Sicily

Ruggieri¹

2022

Karst of Sicily

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Speleological and Speleogenetic Aspects of the Monti di Capo San Vito (Sicily)

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Exceptional record of submarine cave communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy)

Exceptional record of submarine cave communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy)

Karren above Custonaci (Sicily, Italy)

North-Western Sicily

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