Studio geologico strutturale preliminare di Contrada Tabuna (bacino asfaltifero di Ragusa, Sicilia)

Mario Dipasquale (*) & Rosario Occhipinti (**)
(*) Dipartimento Geologia e Geodesia, Università di Palermo. E-mail: dipasquale.mario@gmail.com (**) Ceratonia Geophysics S.r.l. - www.ceratonia.it

Geologic and structural study of Contrada Tabuna (asphalt mining basin of Ragusa, Sicily). The results of a geological-structural analysis carried out in the Ragusa bituminous basin, SE Sicily, are presented. Original data on the geometry and kinematic character of outcropping structures outline a complex deformation history, characterized by alternatine episodes of crustal contraction and extension. This alternation is reminiscent of that described in the framework of inversion tectonics models.

Ragusa bituminous basin, Sicily, inversion tectonics