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Downloaded by [Universita di Palermo] at 02:49 07 January 2016 Figure 7. (a) Thrust fault (red line) close to the contact among the Falcone unit (FU) and the Bassano unit in the Pizzo Spirone area
(FGC: Fine-Grained Cataclasites); (b) SE verging fold growing above a low-angle décollement surface recognized in the thrust fault
hanging-wall (Falcone unit).

water domain characterized by algal mats (Figure 2(g) environment with restricted circulation (see also Mar-
and 2(h)) with evaporitic deposition was periodically tini, et al., 2007; C and MA in Figure 4). Shallow-water
flooded by high-energy normal water, forming scour marls and marly limestone followed upwards.
base intraformational breccias (BC in Figure 4). Facies
analysis points to a moderate-energy lagoonal Their thickness increases SEward (see Bassano suc-
cession vs. Falcone succession in Figure 2) in response

Figure 8. (a) The major syncline structure recognized along the Punta Bassano promontory; (b) and (c) minor folds compatible with
a syncline hinge zone.