Walking along a crustal profile across the Sicily fold and thrust belt

Catalano, Raimondo; Sulli, Attilio; Albanese, Cinzia; Morticelli, Maurizio Gasparo; Valenti, Vera; Agate, Mauro; Basilone, Luca; Avellone, Giuseppe; Gugliotta, Calogero; Gibilaro, C; Pierini, Salvatore

doi:10.3301/gft.2013.05

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“…It opens in the breccia member of "Crisanti Fm." (upper Cretaceous), characterized by conglomerates and calcarenites with rudists and benthic foraminifera (Catalano et al, 2013). It represents a sulfuric water table cave , nowadays disconnected from the actual spring.…”

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New insights on secondary minerals from Italian sulfuric acid caves

D’Angeli¹,

Carbone²,

Nagostinis³

et al. 2018

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Abstract:Sulfuric acid minerals are important clues to identify the speleogenetic phases of hypogene caves. Italy hosts ~25% of the known worldwide sulfuric acid speleogenetic (SAS) systems, including the famous well-studied Frasassi, Monte Cucco, and Acquasanta Terme caves. Nevertheless, other underground environments have been analyzed, and interesting mineralogical assemblages were found associated with peculiar geomorphological features such as cupolas, replacement pockets, feeders, sulfuric notches, and sub-horizontal levels.In this paper, we focused on 15 cave systems located along the Apennine Chain, in Apulia, in Sicily, and in Sardinia, where copious SAS minerals were observed. Some of the studied systems (e.g., Porretta Terme, Capo Palinuro, Cassano allo Ionio, Cerchiara di Calabria, Santa Cesarea Terme) are still active, and mainly used as spas for human treatments.The most interesting and diversified mineralogical associations have been documented in Monte Cucco (Umbria) and Cavallone-Bove (Abruzzo) caves, in which the common gypsum is associated with alunite-jarosite minerals, but also with baryte, celestine, fluorite, and authigenic rutile-ilmenite-titanite. In addition, the core of alunite and jarosite, from these two systems, results enriched in PO 4 3-, clearly suggesting hypogene hydrothermal origin. Santa Cesarea Terme, Capo Palinuro, and Acqua Mintina caves show important native sulfur deposits, which abundantly cover walls, ceilings, and speleothems. Abundant copiapite, pickeringite, tamarugite, hexahydrate assemblages have been observed in the Calabrian systems; their association with pyrite and hematite would suggest they formed in very acidic conditions with pH ranging between 0 and 4.

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Section: Geological Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

New insights on secondary minerals from Italian sulfuric acid caves

D’Angeli¹,

Carbone²,

Nagostinis³

et al. 2018

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“…Knowledge about the deep sub-surface structural setting of the study sector of the Sicilian thrust belt and adjacent regions derives from the interpretation of the borehole-calibrated seismic profiles (Catalano et al, 2000(Catalano et al, , 2011bAccaino et al, 2010;Albanese and Sulli, 2011). In the study portion of the chain, the northern part of the SIRIPRO seismic profile allows imaging, based on seismic facies characters and borehole calibration, the thicker part of the orogenic building consisting of (from top to bottom): Numidian flysch and Sicilidi nappes, Meso-Cenozoic deep-water carbonates (Imerese and Sicanian thrust units) that overthrust thick shallow-water carbonate imbricates.…”

Section: Sub-surface Structural Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A preliminary geologic interpretation (Fig. 9, Catalano et al, 2011b) allowed us to image a shallow structural level consisting of a stack of northward-dipping imbricated thrust-sheets, involving the thin deep-water Meso-Cenozoic successions (Sicilide, Numidian and Imerese units) and emplaced during the shallow-seated compressional Event I. Clearly imaged by the profiles, the Imerese thrust-sheets subsequently appear folded and uplifted, generating north-verging structures (i.e.…”

Section: Sub-surface Structural Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using high-resolution stratigraphy and structural analysis to constrain polyphase tectonics in wedge-top basins: Inferences from the late Tortonian Scillato Basin (central-northern Sicily)

Gugliotta

Morticelli

2012

Sedimentary Geology

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The present paper aims to show, both from a stratigraphic and structural points of view, the main features of a wedge-top syntectonic basin which evolved recording polyphase and non-coaxial tectonics. The study area is the Scillato Basin (SB), a roughly N-S-oriented structural depression located in the central-northern sector of the Sicililian Maghrebides. There, an approximately 1300 m-thick upper Serravallian to upper Tortonian succession of clastic units outcrops as a portion of the Neogene syntectonic covers of the Sicilian fold and thrust belt. Within the outcropping succession the upper Tortonian Terravecchia Fm represents the main topic of this paper. A multidisciplinary approach was carried out through an integration of sedimentology, facies, stratal pattern and structural analyses; this was applied to the formation enabling one to recognize in the Scillato Basin a fining to coarsening upward succession, deposited recording an early transgressive and a late regressive depositional stage. In our model these two main depositional stages developed and are directly relatable to a two-step structural evolution of the basin. During the first step, a NW-SE-oriented structural depression existed, enclosed between structural highs and accommodating the lower and middle portion of the upper Tortonian succession. Subsequently, during the second step, the NW-SE depression was non-coaxially deformed by superimposition of high-angle transpressive faults (many of which were SE-dipping), developed in response to the upward propagation of structures enucleated at deeper structural levels. This step was recorded in the basin by development of both depositional and structural interferences recognizable along the upper portion of the Scillato Basin succession. A comparison between field data and deep geophysical data interpreted at the preliminary stage, raises questions about the late Miocene geological evolution of this sector of the Sicilian chain, including: (i) the syn-tectonic deposition of the Terravecchia Fm. in the Scillato Basin clearly recorded the interference of two main and non-coaxial tectonic events; (ii) the younger of these two events has a clear tranpressional character and was active during the very late Tortonian; (iii) as also indicated by many authors in neighboring orogenic wedges, the main control on the location, geometry and depositional evolution of the Scillato wedge-top Basin was carried out by compressional and transpressional structures developed at a deeper structural level. Their deformation propagated upward both into the shallow structural level and sedimentary covers; therefore (iv) the late Miocene structural scenario here depicted is not consistent either with the back-arc-related extension or with the late orogenic gravitational collapse models previously invoked by other authors with regard to this sector of the Sicilian thrust belt.

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“…The palynomorph biochronology appears in good agreement with previous datations obtained using radiolarian, conodont and mollusc biostratigraphy (see DE WEVER et alii, 1979;DE CAPOA BONARDI, 1984;CATALANO et alii, 1988;KOZUR, 1993;GULLO & KOZUR, 1992;DI STEFANO & GULLO, 1997). Some of the several lithological units recognized were referred to the known Sicilian lithostratigraphic nomenclature, as recently emended and classified (BASILONE, 2012).…”

Section: Italian Journal Of Geosciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%