Submerged tidal notches in the Rijeka Bay NE Adriatic Sea: indicators of relative sea-level change and of recent tectonic movements

Coastal notches: Their morphology, formation, and function

“…Limestone notches, which are generally assumed to have been cut by bioerosion or chemical dissolution, have been particularly important in determining the effect of late Holocene tectonic events around the microtidal coasts of Italy, Greece, Turkey, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean (Pirazzoli et al, 1982(Pirazzoli et al, , 1989(Pirazzoli et al, , 1994aStewart and VitaFinzi, 1996;Rust and Kershaw, 2000;Stiros et al, 2000;Kershaw and Guo, 2001;Benac et al, 2004;Ramırez-Herrera et al, 2004;Antonioli et al, 2006;Morhange et al, 2006;Vacchi et al, 2012;Evelpidou et al, 2012bEvelpidou et al, ,c, 2014Abad, 2013). Rapid seismic activity in the Mediterranean has been punctuated by intervening periods characterized by slow crustal deformation.…”

“…39 occurrence of notches below present sea level in the northern Mediterranean (Fouache et al, 2000;Antonioli et al, 2004a;Benac et al, 2004;Furlani et al, 2011;Marriner et al, 2014). Furlani et al (2014) suggested that freshwater from submerged springs or from large rivers in the Gulf of Trieste was a major factor in developing submerged notches in the northeastern Adriatic Sea.…”

New Data on Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in the Eastern Adriatic Based on Pre-Bomb Marine Organisms from the Intertidal Zone and Shallow Sea

“…Vrsalović 1979;Fouache et al 2000Fouache et al , 2011Antonioli et al 2007;Florido et al 2011), geomorphological markers (e.g. Faivre and Fouache 2003;Benac et al 2004;Furlani et al 2011), and sedimentological markers (e.g. Faivre et al 2011;Marriner et al 2014).…”

Comparison of the vulnerability of limestone (karst) and siliciclastic coasts (example from the Kvarner area, NE Adriatic, Croatia)

“…This is well demonstrated in the existence of well developed tidal notches, which are widespread on carbonate coasts in the Kvarner area (Benac and Juračić, 1998). They can be found 45 to 65 cm below MSL in most places of the Kvarner area (Benac and Juračić, 1998;Fouache et al, 2000), being the lowest (more then 100 cm below MSL) in the Bakar Bay (Benac et al, 2004). Tidal notches are considered to be one of the best indicators of the local sea-level change (Pirazzoli, 1986).…”