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lack
more
basinal
43° 40'
careous
deposits
Corniola
in
detailed
lithofacies
turbidites
formation,
and
are:
account.
of the Calcare Massiccio
the overlying
(1)
called
of such coarse-grained
The
Jurassic basinal facies
!Iiii:ftii Jurassic seamount facies
the
key
debris flow
sediment
formations;
D Eocene-Miocene marls and flysch
presence of slumps and sediment gravity
and
features
deposits
D.M.
Marmarone
the coarse-grained
of
D Cretaceous-Paleocene pelagic carbonates
flows
cal­
beds
of the
the
(presumably eroded from
gravity flow
which contain detritus derived from the seamount
facies of the Bugarone as well as the seamount facies
the marginal escarpment of the seamounts); (2) the
(3) the
in
the
the
Bice and K.G.
1985).
basin
observable, dashed where inferred on basis of facies changes.
Cretaceous.
Stewart
are overlain
The
Approximate trace of Jurassic normal faults drawn as solid lines where
seamount-basin
Both the seamount
demonstrates
Cucco.
stratigraphic
between the seamount and
that
the
topography
basinal
by the Aptian-Albian
thickness
into
Fucoid
facies and the basinal
the
3) indicate that the seamounts ranged from =
from Monte Nerone to Monte
Fig. 5. Generalized map showing
intervening basins exposed in the
the distribution of seamounts and
sequences (Fig.
seamount-basin
whose approximately uniform thickness throughout
Marls,
1 km
topography was levelled off by this time (Montanari,
core of the large anticline extending
differences
early
facies
basinal Maiolica that demonstrate the persistence of