High Preservation Potential Volcaniclastic Sedimentation in the Serravallian Sequence of the Amantea Basin (Coastal Chain, North-Western Calabria)

Evidence of volcaniclastic sedimentation occurs in the first depositional sequence sedimentary succession Amantea Basin. Volcaniclastic deposits are intercalated upper part a sandstone formation and these show maximum thickness about 8 m. The Basin is Neogene depozone located along Tyrrhenian margin Calabria whose onset started during Upper Serravallian. source volcano to materials had have been within or near marine basin order supply it with significant amounts pyroclastic fragments emplaced by either fall/or flows one more explosive eruptions. environment made up mixed minor siliciclastic carbonate material. textural structural features composition volcanic glass indicate an origin from sub-aerial coeval eruption, initial shallow environment, mixing non-volcanic materials, reworking final re-sedimentation into basin. age volcaniclastic/sedimentary makes marker for geodynamic evolution area, lack such horizons other peri-Tyrrhenian basins allows us consider as confined elongated coastal tectonostratigraphic architecture denotes partitioning eastern nascent