TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Agata Di Stefano (1) & Rosanna Maniscalco (1)

Facies analysis in the Second Cycle Messinian evaporites predating the early Pliocene reflooding: the Balza Soletta section (Corvillo Basin, central Sicily)

Rosanna Maniscalco (1), Claudio Ivan Casciano (1), Salvatore Distefano (1), Francesco Grossi (2) & Agata Di Stefano (1)

Tectonic controls on sedimentary system along the continental slope of the central and southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea

Fabiano Gamberi (1), Giacomo Della Valle (1), Michael Marani (1), Alessandra Mercorella (1), Salvatore Distefano (2) & Agata Di Stefano (2)

Unconformities, neptunian dykes and mass-transport deposits as an evidence for Early Cretaceous syn-sedimentary tectonics: new insights from the Central Apennines

Angelo Cipriani (1) & Cinzia Bottini (2)

Tectonic control on Quaternary sedimentary processes and basin infill from the coastal area to the basin plain: examples from the Capo d'Orlando Basin (Southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea)

Fabiano Gamberi (1)

Syn-kinematic sedimentary systems as constraints on the structural response of thrust belts: re-examining the structural style of the Maghrebian thrust belt of Eastern Sicily

Robert W.H. Butler (1), Rosanna Maniscalco (2) & Patricia R. Pinter (3)

Stratigraphic and structural reconstruction of an offshore sector of the Hyblean Foreland ramp (southern Italy)

Salvatore Distefano (1), Fabiano Gamberi (2) & Agata Di Stefano (1)

Insights on the Capo d'Orlando flysch (NE Sicily) by means of geomechanics and sedimentology

Simone Mineo (1), Giovanna Pappalardo (1), Claudio Ivan Casciano (1), Agata Di Stefano (1), Stefano Catalano (1) & Marco Gagliano (1)

Neogene stratigraphic evolution of a tectonically controlled continental shelf: the example of the Lampedusa Island

Salvatore Distefano (1), Fabiano Gamberi (2), Niccolò Baldassini (1) & Agata Di Stefano (1)

Neogene volcanism in Elazig-Tuceli area (eastern Anatolia): geochronological and petrological constraints

Samuele Agostini (1), Mehmet Yilmaz Savaşçin (2), Paolo Di Giuseppe (1,3), Flavio Di Stefano (4), Özgür Karaoğlu (5), Michele Lustrino (4,6), Piero Manetti (7,1), Yalçin Ersoy (8), Sevçan Kürüm (9) & Ayten Öztufekçi Önal (2)

The ancient quarrying areas of the sandstones used in the UNESCO historical centre of Urbino (Marche, Italy) as inferred from geological, petro-chemical and physical-mechanical investigations

Patrizia Santi (1), Francesco Veneri (1), Gianluigi Tonelli (1), Alberto Renzulli (1), Fabrizio Antonelli (2) & Mario Tramontana (1)