SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DEEP WATER, UPSLOPEMIGRATING CROSS-BEDDED DEPOSITS IN A DISTALLY STEEPENED CARBONATE RAMP (MENORCA, BALEARIC ISLANDS, SPAIN)

• Main Author: ANDREETTA, Rachele
• Other Authors: Andreetta, Rachele, MORSILLI, Michele, BECCALUVA, Luigi
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: Italian
• Published: Università degli studi di Ferrara 2009
• Subjects: carbonate ramp; late miocene; backsets; Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica e Sedimentologica; Ramp The; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2388725

The upper Miocene units cropping out along the southern coast of the Island of Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), are mainly represented by two carbonate depositional systems: an early Tortonian distally steepened ramp (Lower Bar Unit) and an upper Tortonian – lower Messinian reef-rimmed platform pr...