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Erathem / Era System / Period Series / Age estimates of boundaries
Epoch in mega-annum (Ma),
unless otherwise noted

Italy Quaternary Holocene

(Q) 11,477 ±85 yr

Pleistocene

Favignana calcarenite 2.588 ±0.005
Trubi clay

Pliocene

Neogene 5.332 ±0.005
(N)
Tyrrhenian Sea Cenozoic ( ) Miocene

Tertiary (T) Oligocene 23.03 ±0.05
33.9 ±0.1

Sicily Paleogene Eocene
()
Favignana 55.8 ±0.2

Paleocene

0 2 km 0 100 200 km 65.5 ±0.3

(a) Location of the island of Favignana (b) Geological time scale from the start
just off the coast of western Sicily, Italy. of the Tertiary until present. The Fav-
ignana calcarenite and the older Trubi
clays are indicated.

Figure 2.1 – Location of Favignana and an illustration showing the age of the researched area.

(a) Eastern Favignana as seen from Monte Santa Caterina. Seen from more than 300 metres elevation the area
has a rather low-profile character. On the foreground the Town of Favignana, right above it the Scalo Cavallo
cliff. View is towards the east, with the mainland of Sicily on the background.

(b) View on the western part of Cala Rossa and Punta san Vittuzzo. The truncated sedimentary structures are
an indicator for erosive processes.

Figure 2.2 – Morphology of the fieldwork area.

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