CORRELAZIONI MICROBIOSTRATIGRAFICHE TRA ALCUNE SUCCESSIONI CRETACEO-PALEOGENICHE DEL MASSICCIO DEL POLLINO (CONFINE CALABRO-LUCANO)

Abstract

The results of a microbiostratigraphic study, carried out on the Meso-Cenozoic successions outcropping along the Pol­lino massif (Calabria-Lucania boundary), are here shown. Biostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic correlations in­dicate that the four successions investigated represent most of the Cretaceous carbonate succession of the Pollino mas­sif, ranging in age from Aptian to Lower Senonian. The Seno­nian succession is truncated at the top by the Paleogene trans­gression (Trentinara Formation SELLI, 1962). Fossi! associations and facies analysis have shown that the entire sequence have been deposited in the inner part of the Apennine Carbonate Platform. Therefore, the Pollino massif depicts the extreme south-western continuation of the carbonate terrains derived by that huge paleogeographic do­main.