IL PLEISTOCENE SUPERIORE MARINO DI ISCHIA: PALEOECOLOGIA E RAPPORTI CON L'EVOLUZIONE TETTONICA RECENTE

Abstract

In order to better reconstruct the Late Quaternary ver­tical movements suffered by the volcanic island of Ischia (Na­ples, Southern Italy) a palaeontological and palaeoecological study was conducted on the marine deposits that occur at the top of Mount Epomeo; a resurgent block forming the highest relief of the island. The study was accompained by geomorphological, morphostructural and stratigraphical ob­servations about the relationships between dated volcanic for­mations, the marine deposits of interest and the huge lands­lide deposits that covered large portions of the island during the resurgence of Mt. Epomeo. [...]