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    Calcareous nanofossil biostratigraphy of Paleocene to Middle Eocene successions (Tertiary Flysch Auctt.) of the Northern Appennines

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    An accurate biostratigraphic study of the Paleocene-middle Eocene calcareous nannofossils has been performed on the turbiditic successions that characterize the Northern Apennines Mt. Caio, Farini d’Olmo, Mt. Sporno and Mt. Penice Units, belonging to the “Tertiary Flysch Auctt.” and referable to the External Ligurides. This geologic complex accumulated in a link key area, located between the oceanic Ligure-Piedmontese domain and the Adria continental margin. The reference biostratigraphic scheme used in the study is the recently published calcareous nannofossil biozonation proposed for the Paleogene by Agnini et al. (2014). The obtained biostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic data suggest that further investigation is needed to clarify the tectono-sedimentary evolution and to unravel the complex architecture of the External Ligurides

    The age of the ophiolite sedimentary cover from the Mt.Gottero Unit (Internal Ligurid Units, Northern Apennines): new data from calcareous nannofossils.

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    The Mt. Gottero Unit (internal Ligurid Units, Northern Apennines) is characterized by a thick and well preserved sequence made up by Palombini Shales, Val Lavagna Shales and Mt. Gottero Sandstones. The Bocco Shales rest unconformably on the last formation. This sequence is interpreted as the sedimentary cover of Jurassic ophiolites. Calcareous nannofossil assemblages provide new data on the age of these formations which are significantly different from those of the previous works. The uppermost level of Palombini Shales shows a nannofacies assigned to Calculites obscurus biozone, Late Santonian. The calcareous nannofossils found in the Val Lavagna Shales allow us to attribute to this formation a Campanian-?Early Maastrichtian age while the top of the Mt. Gottero Sandstones can be referred to Paleocene p.p. age according to Passerini and Pirini (1964). Some suggestions are proposed and discussed as regards these new dat

    New vs old interpretation of the Caporalino-Sant’Angelo Unit

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    This paper focuses on the «Alpine» CaporalinoSant’Angelo Unit outcropping between Corte and Ponte Leccia (NE Corsica). The achieved results show that the Caporalino-Sant’Angelo Unit is a Middle Eocene clastic prism, accumulated in a basin located between the European continental margin and the deforming Corsican accretionary wedge. Consequently, the previous hypothesis that considers the Caporalino-Sant’Angelo Unit as a Middle Jurassic to Eocene stratigraphic succession sedimented in a distensive basin on the European continental margin is rejected, and the early hypothesis that considers the Caporalino-Sant’Angelo Unit as a clastic Eocene unit is partly recover
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