Geomorphology and geoarchaeology of the Paestum area: modifications of the physical environment in historical times

Amato, Vincenzo; Paola, Gianluigi Di; Rosskopf, Carmen Maria; Avagliano, Giovanni; Cipriani, Marina; Cinque, Aldo; Pontrandolfo, Angela; Santoriello, Alfonso

doi:10.4000/mediterranee.3376

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“…On land, the first phases (1.5 Ma) of collapse generated a high-energy relief, the growth of which is testified by the deposition of epiclastic conglomerates, preserved in both the northeastern horst block (Picentini Mts.) and its piedmont (Capaldi et al 1988;Cinque et al 1988Cinque et al , 1991Cinque et al , 2009 Ascione et al 2013), showing the coastal half-grabens analysed in this study and the main Quaternary faults at their boundaries. Location, elevation and age of uplifted marine terraces that occur in the coastal horsts are also reported (data from various authors; see text).…”

Section: Geological and Geomorphological Settingmentioning

confidence: 52%

“…1A) rests on Quaternary sediments that accumulated within a coastal half-graben, which extends in the offshore with the deep Salerno Gulf. The Sele PlainSalerno Gulf structure is described by Sacchi et al (1994) for the offshore sector and by Cinque et al (2009) for the faults running both near the coast and on land. The logs of Mina, Milena, Margherita Mare and Sele ( Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This Early Pleistocene unit, named Eboli Conglomerates, is strongly deformed and deeply buried in the southwestern part of the plain ( Fig. 2A; Cinque et al 1991;Hippolyte et al 1995;Hippolyte 2001;Cinque et al 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%

“…These hypotheses are based on the presence, in the Sele Plain -Salerno Gulf half-graben, of marine sediments, not older than the Gelasian (2.58 -1.8 Ma), between 2000 and 990 m depth in the Mina borehole (Cinque et al 2009). Subsidence of the western portion of this basin was accompanied by deposition in its inner portion, namely at the toes of the Picentini Mts., of the thick epiclastic Eboli Conglomerates, dated from 1.5 to 0.9 Ma (Brancaccio et al 1987(Brancaccio et al , 1991Cinque et al 1988).…”

Section: Evolution Of the Southern Apennines Coastal Plains In The Lamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Quaternary evolution of the Southern Apennines coastal plains: a review

Santangelo¹,

Romano²,

Ascione³

et al. 2017

Geologica Carpathica

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ad memoriam -This paper is dedicated to the beloved memory of our friend and collegue Paola Romano who unfortunately left us too early (Manuscript received January 20, 2016; accepted in revised form November 30, 2016) Abstract: The Quaternary evolution of the main coastal basins located along the southwestern margin of the Southern Apennines has been reconstructed by integrating the huge amount of existing stratigraphical and geomorphological data. The information produced in the last twenty years has shed new light on the recent (late Middle Pleistocene to Present) history of the Campanian and Sele plains or basins. During the early Quaternary, the analysed coastal basins originated as half-grabens in response to opening processes active since the late Tortonian in the southern Tyrrhenian back-arc basin. In some of these basins (e.g. the Campanian Plain), volcanism has also played an important role. In the inner sectors of the coastal basins, the complex interplay between block faulting, sedimentary inputs and glacioeustatic fluctuations gave rise to relative sea-level change and related coastline migrations, leading to the formation of the present-day coastal plains. In the Sele Plain basin, the construction of the present-day landscape mainly resulted from the substantial ceasing of subsidence in the final part of the Middle Pleistocene. Conversely, a strong contribution to the recent evolution of the Campanian Plain has been provided by abundant volcaniclastic aggradation, able to hinder the effect of the vertical motions that occurred in the last 100 ka.

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Section: Geological and Geomorphological Settingmentioning

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Section: Geological and Geomorphological Settingmentioning

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Section: Evolution Of the Southern Apennines Coastal Plains In The Lamentioning

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Quaternary evolution of the Southern Apennines coastal plains: a review

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“…It includes a composite sand ridge system, elevated 1-5 metres a.s.l., which is partly exposed along the present coast and disappears inland under a muddy depression, rising about 1 m a.s.l. At the beginning of the Holocene, the progradational trend was interrupted by at least three phases of formation of sandy coastal ridges, knows as the Laura ridge (dating to the interval that spans from 5.3 to 3.6 ky BP) and Sterpina ridges (I and II, dating, respectively, to before 2.6 ky BP and about 2.0 ky BP) [15,16,[18][19][20][21]. Late quaternary shorelines of the Sele river alluvial-coastal plain.…”

Section: Sele Plainmentioning

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Recent evolution and the present-day conditions of the Campanian Coastal plains (South Italy): the case history of the Sele River Coastal plain

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Alberico²,

Amato

et al. 2011

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The low coasts of the Campania are generally located in the main alluvial coastal plains of the region. These coasts have been affected, during late Quaternary, by strong progradation and more recently by erosion and episodic flooding particularly during storm events. The causes are essentially to be sought in the decrease in sedimentary discharge due to forest hydraulic engineering works but especially to the construction of many artificial dams along the main rivers, coupled whit subsidence and or increases in sea levels. Such events generally occur in coastal plains where the sectors close to the present-day dune ridge are morphologically lower (in general no more than 1-3 m a.s.l.). The main goal of this study was to provide a synopsis of the coastal vulnerability and present a new semi-quantitative method to assess coastal erosion. Eight factors describing the current system state of the beaches and the effects of the wave climate and human activity were combined to assess the potential erosion of the Sele River coastal plain. The method shows the high erosion potential at the mouths of the Sele, Picentino and Tusciano Rivers, while the areas south of the Sele river mouth and the zone stretching from Lido Lago to the Asa channel showed low hazard levels.

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Rise and decline of Holocene tufas across Europe: exploring east/west and north/south similarities and differences in their development

Dabkowski,

Beaumont

2024

J Quaternary Science

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An extended inventory of 82 well‐dated European calcareous tufas is used to discuss the timing and amplitude of their onset, maximum and decline; in particular differences from east to west and between the Mediterranean area and the rest of Europe. Eastern deposits start to develop and reach their maximum slightly earlier than western tufas. Strong east–west differences in the timing and intensity of the climatic improvement during the first half of the Holocene explain the earlier development of eastern tufas compared with the west. The strongest differences are observed between Mediterranean deposits and other European tufas both in their development and decline, whether all or only fluvial deposits are considered, reflecting the important decoupling between Mediterranean and mid‐latitude climate records. During the Late Holocene, the earlier and more pronounced tufa decline observed in European mid‐latitudes is likely to result from more intense and rapid deforestation compared with the Mediterranean region.

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Geomorphology and geoarchaeology of the Paestum area: modifications of the physical environment in historical times

Cited by 14 publications

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Quaternary evolution of the Southern Apennines coastal plains: a review

Quaternary evolution of the Southern Apennines coastal plains: a review

Recent evolution and the present-day conditions of the Campanian Coastal plains (South Italy): the case history of the Sele River Coastal plain

Rise and decline of Holocene tufas across Europe: exploring east/west and north/south similarities and differences in their development

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