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 …

The end-Triassic mass extinction: a new correlation between extinction events and δ13C fluctuations from a Triassic-Jurassic peritidal succession in western Sicily

S Todaro, M Rigo, V Randazzo, P Di Stefano - Sedimentary Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
A new δ 13 C carb curve was obtained from an expanded peritidal succession in western
Sicily and was used to investigate the relationships between isotopic signatures and …

The migration path of Gondwanian dinosaurs toward Adria: New insights from the Cretaceous of NW Sicily (Italy)

V Randazzo, P Di Stefano, F Schlagintweit… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing dinosaur record from Italy questioned classic palaeogeographic scenarios
for the Central Mediterranean area and suggest the proximity of landmass areas and a …

End-Triassic Extinction in a carbonate platform from Western Tethys: a comparison between extinction trends and geochemical variations

S Todaro, M Rigo, P Di Stefano, A Aiuppa… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Triassic/Jurassic boundary section cropping out at Mt Sparagio in north-western Sicily
(Italy) consists of a thick and continuous peritidal succession typical of a Tethyan carbonate …

Integrating facies and structural analyses with subsidence history in a Jurassic–Cretaceous intraplatform basin: Outcome for paleogeography of the Panormide …

L Basilone, A Sulli, MG Morticelli - Sedimentary Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
We illustrate the tectono-sedimentary evolution of a Jurassic–Cretaceous intraplatform basin
in a fold and thrust belt present setting (Cala Rossa basin). Detailed stratigraphy and facies …

Carbonate slope re‐sedimentation in a tectonically‐active setting (Western Sicily Cretaceous Escarpment, Italy)

V Randazzo, J Le Goff, P Di Stefano, J Reijmer… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tectonic processes are widely considered as a mechanism causing carbonate platform
margin instabilities leading to the emplacement of mass transport deposits and …

Facies stacking and extinctions across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in a peritidal succession from western Sicily

S Todaro, P Di Stefano, G Zarcone, V Randazzo - Facies, 2017 - Springer
Abstract An uppermost Triassic–lowermost Jurassic carbonate platform succession, which is
430 m thick, in northwestern Sicily is described with the aim to provide new data on the …

Basin analysis in the Southern Tethyan margin: Facies sequences, stratal pattern and subsidence history highlight extension-to-inversion processes in the Cretaceous …

L Basilone, A Sulli - Sedimentary Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Mediterranean, the South-Tethys paleomargin experienced polyphased
tectonic episodes and paleoenvironmental perturbations during Mesozoic time. The …

A unique fossil record from neptunian sills: the world's most extreme example of stratigraphic condensation (Jurassic, western Sicily)

J Wendt - Acta Geologica Polonica, 2017 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
Neptunian sills at Rocca Busambra, a fragment of the Trapanese/Saccense Domain in
western Sicily, host the most abundant ammonite and gastropod fauna which has ever been …

Geochemistry and volatile contents of olivine-hosted melt inclusions from Mt. Etna tholeiitic and alkaline magmatism

PP Giacomoni, M Masotta, G Delpech… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2024 - Springer
The analysis of olivine-hosted melt inclusions (MIs) from the whole sub-alkaline and alkaline
magmatic suites of Mt. Etna provides fundamental information about the composition of …