A well exposed Middle Chattian fringing reef complex outcropping for at least 40 km along the coastline of the Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy) is here described, contributing to a better knowledge of the evolution of Oligocene reefs in Italy and in the Mediterranean area. The fringing reef complex is represented by the Castro Limestone, an unconformity-bounded depositional sequence mantling a tectonically deformed "falaise" of Cretaceous-Eocene rocks. Stratigraphic and sediemntological features, together with paleontological characters, allow recognition of a virtually complete range of reef tract environments. Different geomorphic zones and associated coral facies, from "back reef" to fore reef, are here described.
Coral facies across an Oligocene fringing reef (Salento Peninsula, Southern Italy) / Bosellini, Francesca; A., Russo. - STAMPA. - 172:(1994), pp. 261-264. (Intervento presentato al convegno VI Inetrnational Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera tenutosi a Munster, Germany nel 9-14 September 1991).
Coral facies across an Oligocene fringing reef (Salento Peninsula, Southern Italy).
BOSELLINI, Francesca;
1994
Abstract
A well exposed Middle Chattian fringing reef complex outcropping for at least 40 km along the coastline of the Salento Peninsula (Southern Italy) is here described, contributing to a better knowledge of the evolution of Oligocene reefs in Italy and in the Mediterranean area. The fringing reef complex is represented by the Castro Limestone, an unconformity-bounded depositional sequence mantling a tectonically deformed "falaise" of Cretaceous-Eocene rocks. Stratigraphic and sediemntological features, together with paleontological characters, allow recognition of a virtually complete range of reef tract environments. Different geomorphic zones and associated coral facies, from "back reef" to fore reef, are here described.
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