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The Cengio sandstone member of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin in northwestern Italy has a conservatively estimated volume of 2.5 to 3 km3 (length: 6.4 km; width: 4.8 km; thickness: 170 m). It is interpreted as a sandstone-rich submarine fan deposit. The Cengio member consists of eight tabular depositional sandstone lobes that are 5- to 25-m thick. These lobes filled a submarine structural depression and onlap and/or pinch-out against bounding slope mudstones. The stacking of the lobe units was related to synsedimentary tectonism.
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Cazzola, C., Mutti, E. & Vigna, B. The Cengio submarine turbidite system of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, Northwestern Italy. Geo-Marine Letters 3, 173–177 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462464
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