A5074567786- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Geological formations and processes
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Drilling and Well Engineering
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Offshore Engineering and Technologies
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Building materials and conservation
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
University of Catania
2014-2024
Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
1999
The Gela Nappe of south central Sicily provides an example a curved segment orogenic front that can be examined both onshore and offshore for deformational style amount shortening. Synorogenic sediments allow the deformation to dated. Two distinct structural styles are observed in Nappe: salient part nappe (Caltanissetta basin) consists single thrust sheet containing train continuously tightening folds reentrant margins (Sciacca Monte Judica) consist stack several sheets. These different...
Abstract The IGCP 714 project “3GEO – Geoclimbing & Geotrekking in Geoparks ” is financed by the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) and supported Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). In this paper, we report on results first phase focused criteria to be adopted select geodiversity sites equipped for climbing or trekking. selection geoclimbing geotrekking routes aimed at combining multimedia tools outdoor activities Geosciences promotion conservation UNESCO Global Geoparks,...
Mass transport deposits (MTDs) play a crucial role in source-to-sink systems. They document the rapid, en-masse and burial of large volumes sediments organic matter from shallow-marine to deep-marine environments. Understanding distribution, composition, formation MTDs is essential, as it forms basis for elucidating their sedimentary basin evolution biogeochemical cycles.The wedge-top siliciclastic successions Miocene Cilento Group, Southern Apennines (Italy), record multiple episodic,...
New palaeomagnetic data from upper Triassic to Pliocene sediments reveal that in eastern Sicily a major 70° clockwise (CW) rotation took place between Oligocene and late Tortonian time, followed by further 30° CW rotation. Results central are less coherent. They show 44–83° post-Oligocene rotation, local 14° post-late counterclockwise (CCW) 25° post-mid-Pliocene We interpret the larger observed as related more internal palaeogeographical position with respect Sicily. Our results complement...
We report new paleomagnetic and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) results from upper Tortonian to middle Pleistocene sediments which were deposited upon adjacent active thrust structures in southwestern Sicily. The data show that the Plio‐Pleistocene Belice Menfi basins (covering Saccense shelf limestones) underwent any internal shortening after early (Santernian), as well net rotation. Sediments around this area (which overlie basinal Meso‐Cenozoic successions) record systematic...
Research Article| January 01, 2011 Shallow burial and exhumation of the Peloritani Mountains (NE Sicily, Italy): Insight from paleothermal structural indicators Luca Aldega; Aldega † 1Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università "Roma Tre," Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1, 00146 Roma, Italy †E-mail: aldega@uniroma3.it Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Sveva Corrado; Corrado Lea Di Paolo; Paolo Roberta Somma; Somma 2Dipartimento degli Alimenti e dell'Ambiente,...
Results of high-resolution integrated stratigraphic studies (calcareous plankton and magnetostratigraphy) three Mediterranean sections (La Vedova in Central Italy, Contrada Pesciarello Sicily St. Peter’s Pool Malta) one deep-sea core from the mid-latitude North Atlantic (DSDP Hole 608) are here synthesized. They compared with those previously studied deep marine including historical stratotype, aim to select most suitable section criterion define Langhian GSSP (Global Stratotype Section...
Three-dimensional seismic data are increasingly resolving original compositional heterogeneity and structural complexity in evaporitic successions within sedimentary basins. The relationship between basin structure, evaporite composition its influence on subsequent deformation investigated here using Messinian examples from the Maghrebian thrust system of Sicily applied to adjacent Ionian sea-bed. By integrating outcrop onshore subsurface data, we demonstrate variations stratigraphies...
The petroleum industry has always been pursuing highly exploitable gas fields, which are often hosted in carbonate rocks. However, carbonates heterogeneous and show different fabrics structures as the result of sedimentation various environments, subsequent diagenesis deformation. In this study, a multi-scale multidisciplinary approach performed on classical reservoir rocks from subsurface Hyblean Plateau (Sicily, Italy). We aim at unravelling important debated role tectonic diagenetic...
Understanding whether a system was unconfined, and deposited on relatively unstructured basin-floor, or confined by actively deforming substrate is important for the prediction of turbidite stratigraphy. Here we consider Numidian (Oligocene-Miocene) Sicily - many type example thick structureless submarine sandstones. New mapping detailed sedimentology in Nebrodi Madonie Mountains (northern Sicily), allied to existing new biostratigraphic data, challenge conventional interpretations as whole....
Temperature‐dependent clay mineral assemblages and vitrinite reflectance data have been used to investigate levels of diagenesis from the Apenninic‐Maghrebian fold‐and‐thrust belt in eastern Sicily at footwall Peloritani‐Calabride Arc. Data are units sampled along a regional transect between Nebrodi Mountains north Mount Judica south. These developed very different tectonic settings those oceanic passive continental margin domains deformed during Cenozoic mountain building related active...
Research Article| November 01, 2009 Structural evolution of the sedimentary accretionary wedge alpine system in Eastern Sicily: Thermal and thermochronological constraints Sveva Corrado; Corrado † 1Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università "Roma Tre," Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1, 00146 Roma, Italy †E-mail: corrado@uniroma3.it Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Luca Aldega; Aldega Maria Laura Balestrieri; Balestrieri 2C.N.R., Istituto Geoscienze e Georisorse,...
Abstract Understanding ancient deep‐water sedimentary systems that accumulated at complex plate boundaries requires confronting the stratigraphic record of deformed successions by tracking sand‐fairways and identifying original relationships in later sequences. Here, we investigate Numidian turbidite system (early to mid‐Miocene) Central‐East Sicily explore a deposited an active thrust belt on Central Mediterranean. Turbidites include multi‐metre thick‐bedded, ultra‐mature quartz sandstones...
Abstract A wealth of paleomagnetic data from Yunnan (China) showed in the past a predominant post‐Cretaceous clockwise (CW) rotation pattern, mostly explained invoking huge (hundreds kilometer wide) blocks, laterally escaping (and/or rotating) due to India‐Asia collision, separated by major strike‐slip shear zones. Here we report on paleomagnetism outcrops close Gaoligong dextral zone. Fifty sites (503 samples) were sampled at variable distances (up ~25 km) mylonites exposed along fault....
Abstract An extensive dataset of vitrinite reflectance, FTIR parameters on organic matter, illite content in mixed layers illite‐smectite, apatite fission tracks and U‐Th/He dating has been used to reconstruct the stepwise propagation Eastern Sicily fold‐and‐thrust belt during Late Palaeogene Neogene times. The results indicate that is divisible into two levels thermal maturity. These consist a less evolved level maturity records limited sedimentary burial minor heating, more indicates...
An Early Pleistocene benthic community, discovered inside the Rumena Cave in NW Sicily, Italy, was studied. Analysis of community led to recognition several encrusting species – notably scleractinians, bryozoans, serpuloideans, cirripeds, foraminifera and brachiopods borings mostly referable ichnogenus Gastrochaenolites. All fossils detected are typical present-day hard-surface submarine cave biota, at both high taxonomic rank level. The biogenic crust, restricted a few sectors but locally...
We report on a paleomagnetic study of the southern sector Olevano‐Antrodoco‐Sibillini (OAS) thrust front, which corresponds to limb Northern Apennines (Italy) orogenic salient. A lively debate has developed regarding oroclinal/progressive‐arc versus non‐rotational nature OAS, been alternatively interpreted as dextral strike‐slip fault, transpressive or frontal oblique ramp that reactivated pre‐existing Jurassic normal faults. Here, we document paleomagnetism, integrated with biostratigraphic...