An Upper Miocene siliciclastic-carbonate ramp: depositional architecture, facies distribution, and diagenetic history (Capo Vaticano area, southern Italy)

• Published in: Facies
• Main Authors: Gramigna P., Russo F., BASSI, Davide
• Other Authors: Gramigna, P., Bassi, Davide, Russo, F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Calabria; Coralline red algae; Facies analysi; Late Miocene; Siliciclastic-carbonate ramp; Southern Italy; The Ramp; Ramp The; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11392/1469314; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-011-0276-y

During the Late Miocene, the marginal areas of the Mediterranean Basin were characterized by the development of mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramps. This paper deals with a temperate siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (late Tortonian-early Messinian in age) which crops out in the Capo Vaticano area, South...