Pleistocene raised marine terraces of the Spanish Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: records of coastal uplift, sea-level highstands and climate changes

Cardeña, Caridad Zazo; Goy, José Luis; Dabrio, Cristino J.; Bardajı́, Teresa; Hillaire‐Marcel, Claude; Ghaleb, Bassam; Delgado, José Ángel González; Soler, Vicente

doi:10.1016/s0025-3227(02)00701-6

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“…Similar climatic instability and sea level changes towards the end of MI5 5.5 have been suggested in very distinct geodynamic realms such as Western Australia, the Caribbean and Mediterranean (e.g. : Stirling et al, 1998;Neumann and Hearty, 1996;Zazo et al, 2003).…”

Section: Sea Level Changes During the Last Interglacial: Other Regionssupporting

confidence: 60%

“…Two highstands separated by an intervening period of lower sea level have been cited in the Canary Islands during the last intergiacial by Zazo et al (2002Zazo et al ( , 2003Zazo et al ( , 2004. Facies analyses suggest a moister climate at the beginning of the substage, as indicated by fan delta sedimentation.…”

Section: Sea Level Changes During the Last Interglacial: Other Regionsmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…This fauna is known in the Spanish Mediterranean and Atlantic-Mediterranean transition area (Cuerda, 1989;Lario et al, 1993;Alouane, 2001;Zazo et al, 1999Zazo et al, , 2003 as the warm "Senegalese" fauna originally defined in the Italian Mediterranean by Gignoux (1913) andIssel (1914). This fauna is characterized by the gastropod Strombus bubonius Lamarck (syn: Strombus latus Gmelin) that colonized the Mediterranean Sea during a time span which these authors called the Tyrrhenian.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…In eastern Canary Islands Zazo et aL (2002Zazo et aL ( , 2003 recognized two morpho-stratigraphic units at elevations + 2 masl and + 1 masl in decreasing age order, separated by erosional features or terrestrial deposits indicative of a fall in sea level. A MI5 5.5 age has been deduced for these terraces using U-series measurements (23Drh age about 125 ka) and amino-acid racemization.…”

Section: Sea Level Changes During the Last Interglacial: Other Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are studies covering the Canary Islands (Meco et aL, 1997(Meco et aL, ,2002Zazo et aL, 2002Zazo et aL, , 2003Zazo et aL, , 2004 ( Steams and Thurber, 1965;Hoang et aI., 1978;Brlickner, 1986;Weisrock et al, 1999;Occhietti et al, 2002) using a variety of dating methods which made it possible to identify the last intergiacial deposits. This paper focuses on the last and present interglacial deposits.…”

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Sea level changes during the last and present interglacials in Sal Island (Cape Verde archipelago)

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Numerical modeling of tidal notch sequences on rocky coasts of the Mediterranean Basin

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Tidal notches have had the potential to form at sea level from ~6.5 kyr B.P. in the Mediterranean Basin and preserve a symmetrical shape comparable to a quadric polynomial. Continuous erosion, predominantly by biological agents, affects a limestone cliff face from low‐ to high‐tide level at <1 mm/yr. Statically determined, the roots of a quadric polynomial are defined by the tidal range representing the limits of effective erosion. However, gradual variations of eustatic sea level rise (slow) and coseismic uplift/subsidence (fast) in tectonically active regions contribute to vertical shifts in the erosional base at coastlines. As a consequence, the cliff morphology gets modified through time resulting in widening, deepening, and separation of notches and possible overprinting of older features. In order to investigate successive modifications of coastal cliff morphology, we developed a numerical model that considers the erosion rate, the erosion zone relative to sea level, the regional sea level curve, and tectonic motion. The results show how slow and rapid sea level changes bias the modern cliff face and highlight that the present‐day notch sequence from top descending to sea level is not inevitably of decreasing age. Furthermore, the initiation of notch formation is not necessarily linked to the date of a certain seismic event. Especially in extensional tectonic settings where coseismic uplift is low and coastal morphological marks are not as distinct, knowledge about coastal evolution is beneficial for paleoseismological research.

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Evidence for 1.5 km of Uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau's Southern Margin in the Last 450 kyr and Implications for Its Multiphased Uplift History

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At the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP), marine deposits that overlie the Central Tauride units at up to 2 km of elevation were used to constrain the onset of uplift to the middle‐late Miocene. This study demonstrates that much younger marine deposits cap the southern margin. We recognize the Last Common Occurrence of Neogloboquadrina spp. (sin) (0.61 Ma) and Pseudoemiliania lacunosa (0.467 Ma), which points to an early middle Pleistocene age. The benthic fauna indicates an epibathyal marine environment (400 to 500 m paleodepth), with an associated paleocoastline now at ~1,500 to 1,600 m above sea level. Our new results imply uplift rates of up to 3.21–3.42 mm/yr for the CAP southern margin since the deposition of the young marine units. In the area, the evaluation of late Pleistocene and Holocene uplift rates of ~1 mm/yr points to a post early middle Pleistocene short‐lived period of rapid uplift of the CAP southern margin, which can correlate the short‐lived surface uplift signal in numerical models of slab breakoff. Overall, this work demonstrates that the majority of the modern topography at the CAP southern margin (1,500 to 1,600 m) was only recently acquired, pointing to the absence of a significant orographic barrier along the southern plateau margin prior to 500 ka. The multiphased uplift recognized at the CAP southern margin by previous authors, as well as the fast uplift rate documented in this work, can be linked to lithosphere delamination and subsequent slab breakoff during the Arabian‐Anatolian continental collision.

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Pleistocene raised marine terraces of the Spanish Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: records of coastal uplift, sea-level highstands and climate changes

Cited by 171 publications

References 45 publications

Sea level changes during the last and present interglacials in Sal Island (Cape Verde archipelago)

Sea level changes during the last and present interglacials in Sal Island (Cape Verde archipelago)

Numerical modeling of tidal notch sequences on rocky coasts of the Mediterranean Basin

Evidence for 1.5 km of Uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau's Southern Margin in the Last 450 kyr and Implications for Its Multiphased Uplift History

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