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0 1000 2000 km

Eurasian plate Pontic Mnts

Alps Carpathians Anatolian plate

Pyrenees Apennines Dinarides Taurus Caucasus

Iberian plate Rhodopes

Betics Hellenides
Rif
Alborz

Atlas Zagros

African plate

Alpine fold & thrust belt Legend Plate velocity Arabian plate
Major fault
Crustal movement
Neogene extensional basin Thrust fault Hajar
Oceanic spreading
Neogene oceanic crust Strike-slip fault ridge

Old (Tethys) oceanic crust Normal fault

Figure 2.3 – Overview of the Mediterranean area showing the structures related to the Alpine
orogeny. Image from the public domain, free of copyright.

X’ Quaternary deposits
Monte Santa Caterina Unit
Punta Faraglione Unit
Thrusts
Strike-slip faults

SN
X X’

500 500

250 250

0m 0m

?-250 -250

0 1 km 2 km X -500 0 500 1000 m -500

(a) Simplified geological map of Favignana. (b) Profile trough Monte Santa Caterina.

Figure 2.4 – A simplified geological map of Favignana, with a cross section corresponding to
the XX’ line in the map. Map and profile are modified after Abate et al. (1997) and Tavarnelli
et al. (2003).

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