ABSTRACT
The neo-tectonic and climatic events that have occurred since the Pleistocene Epoch, from the alternating marine/continental phases to the final emersion are clearly visible on the rocky walls of the Fossa della Garofala. The valley profile, 1.8 km long, develops between 70 m and 30 m above sea level with a mean slope of 2%, which was carved out by the Kemonia creek on the calcarenitic table. The Kemonia flows between the two faults that are the boundaries of the Monreale graben, and reveals how tectonics exerted a strong control over the subterranean and superficial hydrography of the Plain of Palermo.
