Interplay between tectonics and glacio-eustasy: Pleistocene succession of the Crotone basin, Calabria (southern Italy)

Massari, Francesco; Rio, Domenico; Sgavetti, M.; Prosser, Giacomo; D'Alessandro, A.; Asioli, Alessandra; Capraro, Luca; Fornaciari, Eliana; Tateo, Fabio

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1183:ibtage>2.0.co;2

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“…Most of the proposed models represent wave-or stormdominated depositional settings e.g. : [15,21,25,[91][92][93][94]. In contrast, the study sections do not fit the published depositional models in detail, because the observed facies do not show any trace of swaley or hummocky crossstratification that could be attributed to wave-or storminfluenced depositional environments [21,88,92].…”

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Tectonics and sedimentation of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene mixed siliciclastic/bioclastic sedimentary successions of the Ionian Peloritani Mts (NE Sicily, Southern Italy): the onset of opening of the Messina Strait

Stefano

Longhitano

2009

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Biostratigraphic analyses carried out on siliciclastic/bioclastic deposits discontinuously cropping out along the Ionian flank of NE Sicily, indicate that they form two sedimentary events of Early and Middle Pleistocene, respec tively. Vertical facies successions, showing transgressive trends, suggest that sedimentation occurred within semi-enclosed marine embayments, where sublittoral coastal wedges developed on steep ramp-type shelves. Sediments accumulated in shoreface to offshore transitions along steep bottom profiles. This depositional scenario was strongly conditioned by the tectonic activity of the rift zone linking Western Calabria and Eastern Sicily. The effects of glacio-eustatism were also recognized. According to our reconstruction, the study area was controlled by a transfer fault system which affected the coastal margin producing major episodes of uplift and subsidence. Block-faulting was responsible for significant cannibalization and recycling of older deposits during the Middle Pleistocene. Such a tectonic setting can be considered the precursor scenario for the formation of the Messina Strait between Calabria and Sicily. This narrow, linear basin influences the hydrodynamic setting of sublittoral deposits along the Ionian coast of Sicily, giving rise to strong flood/ebb tidal currents. The uppermost part of the Middle Pleistocene succession recognized in the study area is indeed dominated by tide-influenced associations of sedimentary structures which most likely record the first stage of the opening of this ‘seaway’ of the central Mediterranean Sea.

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Section: Discussion and Interpretation Of The Depositional Setting Ofcontrasting

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“…Some of these settings show evidence of syndepositional tectonics [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

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Tectonics and sedimentation of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene mixed siliciclastic/bioclastic sedimentary successions of the Ionian Peloritani Mts (NE Sicily, Southern Italy): the onset of opening of the Messina Strait

Stefano

Longhitano

2009

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“…4 and 6C). The MPSU was recognized also basinwards, within the bathyal Cutro Clay (Massari et al, 2002(Massari et al, , 2010, and grades into a conformable surface in the main basin depocenter to the south (Massari et al, 2010;Zecchin et al, 2012) (Fig. 4).…”

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“…Its development has been estimated at ca. 1.2-1.1 Ma in the Crotone Basin in response to transpressional tectonics (Massari et al, 2002(Massari et al, , 2010, although tectonic deformation seems to have affected the sedimentation until ca. 0.7 Ma (Massari et al, 2002;Zecchin et al, 2012).…”

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Onshore to offshore correlation of regional unconformities in the Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary successions of the Calabrian Arc (central Mediterranean)

Zecchin

Praeg

Ceramicola

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“…The highest and oldest terrace, named Cutro terrace, preserves a thin (max. 15 m thick) sedimentary cover lying unconformably on a Plio-Pleistocene substrate of outer shelf to slope marly clays (Massari et al 2002), named Cutro Marly Clay by Roda (1964). The deposits of Cutro terrace are mid-Pleistocene in age and have been assigned to MIS 7 (Gliozzi 1987) or to MIS 9 (Palmentola et al 1990).…”

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Pleistocene coralline algal build-ups ( coralligène de plateau ) and associated bioclastic deposits in the sedimentary cover of Cutro marine terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)

Nalin

Basso

Massari

2006

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Interplay between tectonics and glacio-eustasy: Pleistocene succession of the Crotone basin, Calabria (southern Italy)

Cited by 89 publications

References 80 publications

Tectonics and sedimentation of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene mixed siliciclastic/bioclastic sedimentary successions of the Ionian Peloritani Mts (NE Sicily, Southern Italy): the onset of opening of the Messina Strait

Tectonics and sedimentation of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene mixed siliciclastic/bioclastic sedimentary successions of the Ionian Peloritani Mts (NE Sicily, Southern Italy): the onset of opening of the Messina Strait

Onshore to offshore correlation of regional unconformities in the Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary successions of the Calabrian Arc (central Mediterranean)

Pleistocene coralline algal build-ups ( coralligène de plateau ) and associated bioclastic deposits in the sedimentary cover of Cutro marine terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)

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