LOWER PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS IN EAST PART OF THE FAVIGNANA ISLAND, SICILY, ITALY

Abstract

Ślączka A. et al., Lower Pleistocene deposits in east part of the Favignana Island, Sicily, Italy. In the Favignana Island (Egadi Archipelago, Sicily, Central Mediterranean) Pleistocene shallow water marine deposits are widely well exposed to form a prograding beach/near foreshore complex system. A group of facies associations have been recognised, suggesting different depositional environments and processes, related both to currents dynamics, palaeoclimatic conditions, sea-level changes and syn-sedimentary tectonics. The sedimentological pattern of the facies allow to reconstruct the depositional history of the island, characterised by the interplay of long/oblique shore currents dynamics and storm events during the Lower Pleistocene, developed on a mobile Mesozoic bedrock just affected by strike-slip tectonics