Successione Geologica
Successione Geologica
The following panoramic view can be compared with a book full of pictures in which is represented a summary of the madonita geology. A visual reconstruction of details of the geological structural aspects of the Castellana Sicula zone is possible through a series of rocks constituded mainly of clay, with an evident tectonic contact create rocks geochronologically older at higher level as opposed to rocks of a more recent date. You can see how the clays of the middle-upper Tortonian period, grey- blue in colour of the Terravecchia formation have lowered in respects of the Eocenics clays of the Sicilid Unit blue green in colour with reddish marks in which we see also limestones-marls outcrops of the Polizzi formation as well as layered sandstone. Particular attention should be payed to the "Calanchi", geomorphological structures produced by the erosion of the surface waters on the argillaceous lithologies. Raising one's gaze towards the highest peaks it is possible to see that the numidian deposits from upper-oligocene to lower-miocene of Madonna dell'Alto and S.Salvatore,that has a classic tobacco colour with variations of brown are decisively higher than the evaporitics rocks which are grey-white with yellowish streaks that make-up the substratum of Cozzo Morto, as well as Cozzo Prangi. Crystals and chalk caves. At Tufo Gipsy we find sediments belonging to the sicilian gessoso solfifera cycle, in which stand out various crystal forms from the gypsarenites-sharp gypsum up till the macrocrystal also called laminated gypsum at spear for his typical shape and dimensions of the crystals.