Late Quaternary transgressive erosion and deposition in a modern epicontinental shelf: The Adriatic semienclosed basin

Trincardi, Fabio; Correggiari, A.; Roveri, Marco

doi:10.1007/bf01204470

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“…In addition, a thick Holocene sediment deposit extends approximately 300 km along the western Adriatic coast (Trincardi et al, 1994). It has a clinoform structure with forset beds located between 20 and 50 m water depths.…”

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Observations and modeling of wave-supported sediment gravity flows on the Po prodelta and comparison to prior observations from the Eel shelf

Traykovski

Wiberg

Geyer

2007

Continental Shelf Research

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Abstract:A mooring and tripod array was deployed from the fall of 2002 through the spring of 2003 on the Po prodelta to measure sediment transport processes associated with sediment delivered from the Po River. Observations on the prodelta revealed wave-supported gravity flows of high concentration mud suspensions that are dynamically and kinematically similar to those observed on the Eel shelf . Due to the dynamic similarity between the two sites, a simple one-dimensional across-shelf model with the appropriate bottom boundary condition was used to examine fluxes associated with this transport mechanism at both locations. To calculate the sediment concentrations associated with the wave-dominated and wave-current resuspension, a bottom boundary condition using a reference concentration was combined with an "active layer" formulation to limit the amount of sediment in suspension. Whereas the wave-supported gravity flow mechanism dominates the transport on the Eel shelf, on the Po prodelta flux due to this mechanism is equal in magnitude to transport due to wave resuspension and wind-forced mean currents in cross-shore direction. Southward transport due to wave resuspension and wind forced mean currents move an order of magnitude more sediment along-shore than the downslope flux associated wave-supported gravity flows.

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confidence: 99%

Observations and modeling of wave-supported sediment gravity flows on the Po prodelta and comparison to prior observations from the Eel shelf

Traykovski

Wiberg

Geyer

2007

Continental Shelf Research

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“…The Po Plain and the modern coastal plain, in turn, consist of PleistoceneHolocene alluvial to marine clastic sediments. The central-northern Adriatic Sea, due to its depths, which do not exceed -50/-70 m, experienced repeated emersions driven by glacial stages in the late Quaternary, becoming a wide extension of the alluvial Po Plain (Trincardi et al 1994). The eventual Holocene sea-level rise caused the shoreline to break into the Apennine foothills of the Marche region (Lambeck et al 2004) and the Romagna Po Plain to contract to roughly to its modern extension.…”

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Geomorphological and Anthropic Control of the Development of Some Adriatic Historical Towns (Italy) Since the Roman Age

Dall’Aglio

Donatis

Franceschelli

et al. 2017

Quaestiones Geographicae

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Dall'Aglio P.L., De Donatis M., Franceschelli C., Guerra C., Guerra V., Nesci O., Piacentini D., Savelli S., 2017. Geomorphological and anthropic control of the development of some Adriatic historical towns (Italy) since the Roman age. Quaestiones Geographicae 36(3), Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznań, pp. 111-123. 6 figs.abstraCt: The geomorphological analysis of historically urbanized areas is the best scientific way to understand how the extant geomorphological factors conditioned urbanization. It also provides a baseline to enable comparisons to be made with the modern environment. This paper considers four urbanized historical sites on the Adriatic coast (Italy) that owe their urban development to particular geomorphological and environmental conditions that were modified over the centuries from the Roman age to the present day. The focus here is on the evolution of the shoreline and associated geomorphic variables (streambeds and river mouths migration). These factors are fundamental for determining the development of a city, both as basic boundary elements -therefore including defence and protection -and also for the development of harbours.

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“…The beginning of the sea level fall could be located in a time interval ranging between 110 and 80 ka. Transgressive deposits developed after the lowstand of the isotopic stage 2, particularly in the Adriatic Basin (Trincardi et al 1994). The rising was very rapid and culminated at 6 ka with the maximum marine ingression, while the successive highstand phase is still in course.…”

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“…The geological structures recognized through seismic interpretation are acoustically transparent volcanic units, representing the rocky acoustic basement and the systems tracts of the Late Quaternary depositional sequence (Fabbri et al 2002). The seismostratigraphic analysis has allowed us to characterize depositional systems, respectively reflecting sea-level fall (Falling Sea Level System Tract;Helland Hansen and Gjelberg 1994), sea-level lowstand (Lowstand System Tract) and related internal subdivisions (Posamentier et al 1991), transgressive phase (Transgressive System Tract; Posamentier and Allen 1993;Trincardi et al 1994) and the highstand phase of sea level (Highstand System Tract; Posamentier and Vail 1988).…”

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New seismo-stratigraphic and marine magnetic data of the Gulf of Pozzuoli (Naples Bay, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): inferences for the tectonic and magmatic events of the Phlegrean Fields volcanic complex (Campania)

2012

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A detailed reconstruction of the stratigraphic and tectonic setting of the Gulf of Pozzuoli (Naples Bay) is provided on the basis of newly acquired single channel seismic profiles coupled with already recorded marine magnetics gathering the volcanic nature of some seismic units. Inferences for the tectonic and magmatic setting of the Phlegrean Fields volcanic complex, a volcanic district surrounding the western part of the Gulf of Naples, where volcanism has been active since at least 50 ka, are also discussed. The Gulf of Pozzuoli represents the submerged border of the Phlegrean caldera, resulting from the volcano-tectonic collapse induced from the pyroclastic flow deposits of the Campanian Ignimbrite (35 ka). Several morpho-depositional units have been identified, i.e., the inner continental shelf, the central basin, the submerged volcanic banks and the outer continental shelf. The stratigraphic relationships between the Quaternary volcanic units related to the offshore caldera border and the overlying deposits of the Late Quaternary depositional sequence in the Gulf of Pozzuoli have been highlighted. Fourteen main seismic units, both volcanic and sedimentary, tectonically controlled due to contemporaneous folding and normal faulting have been revealed by geological interpretation. Volcanic dykes, characterized by acoustically transparent sub-vertical bodies, locally bounded by normal faults, testify to the magma uprising in correspondence with extensional structures. A large field of tuff cones interlayered with marine deposits off the island of Nisida, on the western rim of the gulf, is related to the emplacement of the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff deposits. A thick volcanic unit, exposed over a large area off the Capo Miseno volcanic edifice is connected with the Bacoli-Isola Pennata-Capo Miseno yellow tuffs, cropping out in the northern Phlegrean Fields.

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Late Quaternary transgressive erosion and deposition in a modern epicontinental shelf: The Adriatic semienclosed basin

Cited by 189 publications

References 12 publications

Observations and modeling of wave-supported sediment gravity flows on the Po prodelta and comparison to prior observations from the Eel shelf

Observations and modeling of wave-supported sediment gravity flows on the Po prodelta and comparison to prior observations from the Eel shelf

Geomorphological and Anthropic Control of the Development of Some Adriatic Historical Towns (Italy) Since the Roman Age

New seismo-stratigraphic and marine magnetic data of the Gulf of Pozzuoli (Naples Bay, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): inferences for the tectonic and magmatic events of the Phlegrean Fields volcanic complex (Campania)

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