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Fig. 7. Stratigraphy and facies domains of Sicily offshore (time scale according to Harland et al., 1990).

Fig. 8. Line drawing of the deep seismic profile (CROP) between the Algerian–Provencal Basin and the Cornaglia area.

crystalline body and the underlying Kabilian– basement, covered by a very thin sedimentary
Calabrian stack corresponds to the overlap of veneer, appears strongly deformed.
lower continental crustal levels on rocks of the
upper crust. Consequently the crust is thick up to Close to the Elimi chain (Fig. 2), the crust is
around 25 km. In the above-mentioned sector the about 28 km thick. It consists of a stack of crystal-
line units, superposed on sedimentary deformed