Sedimentary recycling, provenance and paleoweathering from chemistry and mineralogy of Mesozoic continental redbed mudrocks, Peloritani mountains, southern Italy

Abstract

The Triassic to Lowermost Jurassic mudrocks from continental redbeds of the Longi-Taormina Unit (Calabria-Peloritani Arc; southern Italy) have been mineralogically, chemically and petrographically analyzed, in order to reveal their complex history, which record an important phase of the geological evolution of the Mediterranean area.