A possible bridge between Adria and Africa: new palaeobiogeographic and stratigraphic constraints on the Mesozoic palaeogeography of the Central Mediterranean …

G Zarcone, FM Petti, A Cillari, P Di Stefano… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Dinosaur records in central and southern Italy testify to the occurrence of a diverse dinosaur
fauna on the Apennine and Apulian carbonate platforms at least from the Tithonian to the …

A regional‐scale discontinuity in western Sicily revealed by a multidisciplinary approach: A new piece for understanding the geodynamic puzzle of the southern …

P Di Stefano, R Favara, D Luzio, P Renda… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The results of an integrated stratigraphic, structural, geophysical, and geochemical study
reveal the presence of a crustal discontinuity in western Sicily that, at present, runs roughly …

Synsedimentary tectonics vs paleoclimatic changes across the Aptian-Albian boundary along the Southern Tethyan margin: The panormide carbonate platform case …

L Basilone - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Aptian-Albian boundary is a deeply investigated time interval on the basis of
the deep oceanographic, environmental and climatic changes, globally recorded along the …

Mesozoic tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Trapanese Southern Tethyan margin (NW Sicily) integrating facies and stratigraphic analysis with subsidence history

L Basilone - Italian Journal of Geosciences, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Several Mesozoic successions of the Southern Tethyan margin were accumulated on a
carbonate platform evolving to pelagic plateau depositional systems. Rifting paleotectonics …

Evidence of theropod dinosaurs in the upper Hauterivian–lower Barremian of Jebel Kebar (central Tunisia): paleobiogeographic implications

J Dridi, Y Houla, I Salhi, MF Zagrarni - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The fossil record of Mesozoic dinosaurs in Tunisia has long been thought to be restricted
exclusively to the southern part of the country. Although tidal and continental environments …

Spongy-like porosity in peritidal carbonates: An interaction of cyclic sea-level oscillations, fresh water supply and sediment texture

S Todaro, C Hollis, P Di Stefano - Sedimentary Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper focuses upon the analysis of a complex paleokarstic system recorded within
uppermost Triassic peritidal cycles in northwestern Sicily. Besides documenting spectacular …

Facies, depositional environments and drowning of Tethyan isolated carbonate platforms: the Paleogene carbonates of Malta

P Gatt - Facies, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The< 900-m-thick Paleogene carbonates of the Maltese Islands and offshore wells
comprise 16 facies grouped into 7 carbonate facies associations (TA, TB, TC, TD1, TD2, TE1 …

[PDF][PDF] First dinosaur bone from Sicily identified by histology and its palaeobiogeographical implications

V Garilli, N Klein, E Buffetaut, PM Sander… - Neues Jahrbuch fur …, 2009 - academia.edu
An isolated fossil bone visible in cross-section in the wall of a cave near Palermo (Sicily) is
described. The limestone containing the bone is late Cenomanian in age and was deposited …

Geoconservation in Sicily (Italy): the Example of the Isola delle Femmine (Palermo)

V Randazzo, S Todaro, S Provenzale, V Di Dio… - Geoheritage, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Regional Administration of Sicily recently erected Isola delle Femmine—a
small island of the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to Palermo—as a geosite. A detailed geological …

[PDF][PDF] Geological framework of Sicily and the Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphic evolution

P Di Stefano, MS Cacciatore, G Zarcone - ALBE R IANA T, 2010 - researchgate.net
The latter consists of Meso-Cenozoic thrust imbricates that are well exposed in western
Sicily and in central-northern Sicily (Madonie Mountains) while in central-southern Sicily …