Facies and sequence architecture of a tropical foramol-rhodalgal carbonate ramp: Miocene of the central Apennines (Italy)

• Main Authors: BRANDANO, Marco, CORDA, Laura, CASTORINA, Francesca
• Other Authors: EDITORS MUTTI M, PILLER W. AND BETZLER C., Brandano, Marco, Corda, Laura, Castorina, Francesca
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: WILEY-BLACKWELL 2010
• Subjects: sequence stratigraphy; miocene; mediterranean; tropical carbonate ramp; The Ramp; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/160418

Integrated data from sedimentological and microfacies analyses have been used to reconstruct the stratigraphic and architectural evolution of a carbonate ramp exposed in the central Apennines. The platform was a wide homoclinal ramp characterized by rhodalgal, bryomol and foramol skeletal-grain asso...