A recent investigation on the northern margin of the Hyblean Plateau in south-eastern Sicily
highlights the occurrence of a clayey diapiric intrusion into the foreland carbonate series.
The piercing body, exposed along a∼ 270 long and∼ 30 m deep NE-SW elongated quarry,
consists of serpentinite-bearing clayey material. As suggested by the internal contractional
features and by its geometric relations with the adjacent rocks, the clayey body intruded in
the foreland series producing on its flanks a set of domino-arranged normal faults which …