TECTONIC FEATURES AT THE NW-COAST OF SICILY (GULF OF CASTELLAMMARE) Implications for the plio-pleistocene structural evolution of the southern Tyrrhenian continental margin

Abstract

Detailed field studies coupled with geological mapping and litho-and biostratigraphical analyses allow to reconstruct the structural evolution of the north-western sicilian coast (Gulf of Castellammare) since the Upper Miocene. By evolv­ing two models for this area, implications for Plio-Pleistocene tectonic processes on the southern Tyrrhenian continental margin can be inferred. [...]