Terrazzi deposizionali sommersi al largo della Baia di Carini (Sicilia nord-occidentale)

High - resolution sequence stratigraphy tools have been applied to the study of the regressive shelfal deposits, found scattered off the Carini Embayment, a small sector of the northwestern Sicily continental margin. Such sedimentary successions, whose development is related to the Late Pleistocene eustatic fluctuations, have been widely recognised off several Mediterranean continental selve. In the Carini Embayment, these prograding wedges represent the stratigraphic record of subsequent sea level falls and lowerings. Terraced features, characterizing the outer shelf, reflect the late constructive stage of the sea level lowering and the first erosive stages of the subsequent rise, when the top of the shelf margin units was cut off by shoreline landward shift and accompanying wave action. Purpose of this papers is to describe the internal geometries and areal extension of the regressive sedimentary succession of the Carini Embayment in order to derive their geological history during the Last Glacial Maximum.