Sea-level change along the Italian coast for the past 10,000yr

Lambeck, Kurt; Antonioli, Fabrizio; Purcell, Anthony; Silenzi, Sergio

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.02.009

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“…In this work, a MIS 7.3 highstand at -10 m has been carefully considered, as this is an intermedíate valué among those reported in Schellmann and Radtke (2004), Bintanja et al (2005) and Waelbroeck et al (2002). In addition, according to Lambeck et al (2004a) and Ferranti et al (2006), a máximum sedimentation depth of 2 m can be attributed to the lagoon bottom. It follows that among substages 7.3 and 5.5 there was a substantial stability, with an uplift of only 6 m ( + 0.06 mm/yr; Fig.…”

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Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

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Torres³

et al. 2010

Sedimentary Geology

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The geologic study of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Apulia región, southern Italy) is extremely difficult due to the scarcity of outcrops and fauna that could be used for dating. The survey inprogressof the 1:50,000 scale geological sheetno. 409 "Zapponeta" (including the coastal zone of the Apulian Tavoliere) has prompted us to tackle this problem by using a large set of borehole data and the AAR dating method applied to ostracod shells, which are capable of colonizing all types of environment as long as there is water. This alternative approach has allowed us to recognise nine stratigraphic units or synthems and, for the first time in this área, to date them, and to find a correlation between them and the cycles of sea level variation. The recognised stratigraphic units are: the Coppa Nevigata sands (NEA; middle Pleistocene: MIS 17-16), argíüe subappennine unit (ASP; middle Pleistocene: MIS 15-13), the Coppa Nevigata synthem (NVI; middle Pleistocene: MIS 11), the Arriendóla subsynthem (MLMi; middle Pleistocene: MIS 11), an undifferentiated continental unit (UCI; middle Pleistocene: MIS 8-7), the Foggia synthem (TGF; middlelate Pleistocene: MIS 6), the Carapelle and Cervaro streams synthem (RPL; late Pleistocene: MIS 5-3), and the Inacquata farm synthem (NAQ; Holocene). Within the RPL unit, a buried Cladocora caespitosa bioherm referable to MIS 5.5, lacking in warm fauna, and in which the coral is embedded in clay has been found in some boreholes. This is the first finding of Tyrrhenian deposits with C. caespitosa along the Italian Adriatic coast; the presence of this coral in clayey sediments, a very uncommon occurrence, strengthens the hypothesis that the major fossil reefs grew in coastal waters that were characterised by alluvial inputs of fine sediments, higher turbidity, and higher temperature than today. In addition, on the basis of the current evidence, some consideration about the fauna of the MIS 5.5 layer allows us to hypothesise that the Adriatic Sea underwent a more modérate warming compared to that of the Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas. Instead, the finding in the NVI unit of a tropical lagoonal deposit with stromatolites referred to MIS 11 proves that the warming in this stage was undoubtedly greater than that of MIS 5.5. The MM4 borehole, which goes through the MIS 5 layers of the RPL unit, made it possible to recognise two marine phases during MIS 5: the first is referable to the MIS 5.5-5.3 interval, and the second to MIS 5.1. MIS 5.2 is marked by land emersión, whereas no evidence of land emersión between MIS 5.5 and 5.3 has been found. Also for the first time in this área, uplifting and subsiding áreas have been recognised and the vertical movements assessed. In general, the data suggest that the Garganic Apulian foreland and the Amendola highland experienced an uplift, while the central-southern part of the study área, belonging to the Apulian Tavoliere plain, suffered a subsidence with rates increasing from north-northwest to south-southeast. In particular, the finding of the MIS 5.5 bu...

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Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

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Torres³

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Sedimentary Geology

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“…These data contribute to the estimation of the intervening relative value of the sea level changes for that location (with related uncertainties represented by the error bar in the plots). See Table 1 in our text and other similar tables in other papers (Table 1 in Antonioli et al, 2007;Lambeck et al, 2004;Anzidei et al, 2011a, b;Anzidei et al, 2013, and references therein, etc. ).…”

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“…These authors' interpretations in their studies have difficulties, because they did not work in team with marine archaeologists. Lambeck et al (2004) for the first time presented a robust interpretation based on archaeological surveys, geological data and geophysical modeling that well fit the elevation of constructional features of the Roman fish tanks located in the central Mediterranean, at the time of their use. This study provided the guidelines for other papers dealing with the same items (i.e.…”

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“…Functional elevations define also the minimum elevation of the structure above the local highest tides. Lambeck et al (2004) first introduced the basics of "functional elevation" that was later applied by Antonioli et al (2007) and later re-explained by Auriemma and Solinas (2009). The functional heights and the possible errors are estimated on the basis of the observed indicators.…”

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Reply to comment by C. Morhange, C. Flaux, P.A. Pirazzoli, M.B. Carre on “Holocene Sea level Change in Malta”

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Quaternary International

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“…Current knowledge of past sea-level variations in the Mediterranean Sea results mainly from beachrock deposits [28], submerged speleothems [29,30], and archaeological remains [31,32] and other biological markers [33] which, however, do not cover the last 2000 years. The interval between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, which includes the end of the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age (LIA) is crucial to understanding the link between sea-level changes and rapid climatic fluctuations, and can only be studied using fossil vermetid reefs.…”

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Vermetid reefs in the Mediterranean Sea as archives of sea-level and surface temperature changes

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Chemistry and Ecology

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Sea-level change along the Italian coast for the past 10,000yr

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Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

Reply to comment by C. Morhange, C. Flaux, P.A. Pirazzoli, M.B. Carre on “Holocene Sea level Change in Malta”

Vermetid reefs in the Mediterranean Sea as archives of sea-level and surface temperature changes

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