Oligo-Quaternary kinematic evolution of the Sicilian-Maghrebian chain

Chiara Macchiavelli (a), Eugenio Turco (a), Antonio Schettino (a), Pietro Paolo Pierantoni (a) & Federico Famiani (a)
(a) School of Science & Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy. E-mail: chiara.macchiavelli@unicam.it

We propose a new kinematic model for the evolution of the Sicilian-Maghrebian chain from the early Oligocene to Present. In particular, the evolution of the Caltanissetta foredeep basin, active from upper Miocene–Pleistocene is described from a kinematic point of view through a series of plate reconstructions that show the Caltanissetta basin peculiarity with respect to the Maghrebian chain foredeep, and points out that the foredeep evolution can't be explained in a simple collisional complex context.

Caltanissetta Basin, Plate kinematics, Sicilian-Maghrebian chain