1. Paleomagnetism of the Hyblean Plateau, Sicily: a review of the existing data set and new evidence of block rotation from the Scicli–Ragusa Fault System
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Catalina Hernandez-Moreno, G. Sturiale, Fabio Speranza, Alessandra G. Pellegrino, and Rosanna Maniscalco
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geography ,Paleomagnetism ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Rift ,Plateau ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Lineament ,paleomagnetism ,Geology ,block rotation ,Scicli-Ragusa fault system ,Fault (geology) ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Rotation ,Block (meteorology) ,01 natural sciences ,Tectonics ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Seismology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The present paper has two aims: first, to re-evaluate the rotation of the Hyblean Plateau with respect to Africa in the light of updated African paleopoles; second, to obtain information about the block rotation pattern, possibly associated with the Scicli-Ragusa strike-slip fault zone. Our results complement pre-existing data and firmly indicate that: 1) the Hyblean Plateau did not rotate with respect to Africa, even during the Pliocene-Pleistocene rifting of the Strait of Sicily; 2) the Scicli-Ragusa fault system did not induce significant block rotations around vertical axis and therefore, the horizontal displacement of this tectonic lineament has to be considered less than 3 km.
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- 2016
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