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 | | In Central-Eastern Sardinia, terrigenous and mixed deposits were formed during transgressive episodes in Early Eocene times, with Assilina-dominated facies in the early Ypresian of Southern Sardinia, and Nummulites-rich assemblages in central Eastern Sardinia near Orosei in the Late Ypresian. |
 | | The conglomerate clasts, cropping out in several localities of SE Sardinia (Cuccuru’e Flores and the as yet unrecorded occurrences of Su Bandidu and Nurri), testify to the development of carbonate shallow-water environments rich in algae in the Early Paleocene, in the Thanetian and in the late Ypresian, and of larger foraminiferal deposits in the Ypresian. |
 | | The inferred paleoenvironments and the transgressive-regressive successions are interpreted as a close analogue to the tectono-sedimentary history of the eastern Pyrenaic-Provençal region, thus confirming the position of Sardinia within this domain in the Early Tertiary. |
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