Tectonic and climatic controls on coastal sedimentation: The Late Pliocene–Middle Pleistocene of northeastern Rhodes, Greece

Cornée, Jean‐Jacques; Moissette, Pierre; Joannin, Sébastien; Suc, Jean‐Pierre; Quillévéré, Frédéric; Krijgsman, Wout; Hilgen, F.J.; Koskeridou, Efterpi; Münch, Philippe; Lécuyer, Christophe; Desvignes, Paula

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.12.026

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“…The entire eastern Aegean-Antolian microplate was exposed during the Messinian and a regional unconformity developed. In northeastern Rhodes this unconformity separates karstified Mesozoic marble from an overlying isolated outlier of Pliocene e Pleistocene sediments (Hanken et al, 1996;Cornée et al, 2006a). The studied pipes are found in one of the outliers situated at Cape Vagia (Fig.…”

Section: Outcrop Studies From Rhodes Greecementioning

confidence: 85%

“…A volcanic layer in the Lindos Bay clay has been dated in another of these Pliocene e Pleistocene outliers to 1.89 AE 0.09 Ma (Cornée et al, 2006b). The area subsided from above sea level during the Pliocene to around 500 m water depth before it was uplifted again (Hanken et al, 1996;Cornée et al, 2006a). A total of 41 pipe-related structures have been observed in the study area in the Cape Vagia outlier.…”

Section: Outcrop Studies From Rhodes Greecementioning

confidence: 88%

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1000 m long gas blow-out pipes

Løseth

Wensaas

Arntsen

et al. 2011

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Section: Outcrop Studies From Rhodes Greecementioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Outcrop Studies From Rhodes Greecementioning

confidence: 88%

1000 m long gas blow-out pipes

Løseth

Wensaas

Arntsen

et al. 2011

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…The chronological succession of their disappearance is relatively well known at latitude 36°-39°N in the eastern Mediterranean region based on several reference pollen successions covering the time-interval under consideration. These sections are at Crotone [Vrica Santa (Combourieu-Nebout & Vergnaud Grazzini, 1991) and Santa Lucia], Citadel of Zakynthos (Subally et al, 1999), Monte San Giorgio at Caltagirone (Dubois, 2001), Tsampika in the Rhodos Island ( Joannin, 2003;Cornée et al, 2006), Peloponnese localities [Megalopolis (Okuda et al, 2002), Phlious (Urban & Fuchs, 2005) and the Argive Plain (Jahns, 1993)] and Oeniades (Gulf of Corinth; Fouache et al, 2005).…”

Section: Biostratigraphymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stratigraphic Architecture, Sedimentology and Structure of the Vouraikos Gilbert‐Type Fan Delta, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

Ford

Williams

Malartre

et al. 2007

Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins

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In the Aegion to Kalavrita region of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, Plio-Pleistocene syn-rift stratigraphy comprises a fluvial-dominated lower group and an upper group dominated by Gilbert-type deltas separated by an erosive unconformity. The lower group records substantial accumulation (1.3 km) of fluvial sediment across a broad area of fault-controlled grabens and half grabens, which was terminated by a marine transgression. The upper group records a great increase in accommodation space, the migration of the depocentre to the north and an increase in sediment supply. It is dominated by large gravel-rich systems that were sourced in the footwalls of active normal faults. The Vouraikos Delta is an exceptionally well-exposed Gilbert-type fan delta complex, which is > 800 m thick, with a surface area of 32 km 2 . It lies in the hangingwall of the Pirgaki-Mamoussia Fault and has been exhumed in the footwall of the Eastern Helike Fault. Preliminary palynological results from topset and pro-delta fine-grained facies and from lower group strata indicate that the Vouraikos Delta began forming some time before 1.1 Ma and was terminated soon after 0.7 Ma. These preliminary Early to Middle Pleistocene age estimates are coherent with published models of the uplift history of the Eastern Helike Fault. Sedimentation rates are thus estimated between 1.3 and 2 mm yr −1 . While the earliest delta infilled an incised palaeovalley, accommodation space was primarily tectonically controlled, first by an extensional forced fold and later by a system of major normal faults (Pirgaki-Mamoussia Fault and its splays). Several families of syn-sedimentary and late normal faults cut the delta. A listric growth fault controlled a large rollover anticline in the lowest stratigraphic package. The delta prograded (to the north-northwest) into water that reached depths of 200-600 m. Topset limestones associated with coastal conglomerate facies indicate that the delta built into a water body that was wholly or periodically marine. Internally, the Vouraikos Delta comprises five stratigraphic packages each characterized by a distinctive organization of topsets, foresets, bottomsets and pro-delta facies and bounded by major stratigraphic surfaces. These packages are tentatively correlated with regressive glacio-eustatic interglacial periods. The trajectory of the offlap break in the centre of the Vouraikos reflects early progradationdominated behaviour followed by increasingly aggradational behaviour.

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“…Many authors proposed lithostratigraphic subdivisions of the Plio-Pleistocene deposits (Hedenborg 1837, Bukowski 1899, Mutti et al 1970b, Meulenkamp et al 1972, Hanken et al 1996. Cornée et al (2006) revised the tectonosedimentary organization of these deposits and defined a new formation (the Ladiko-Tsampika Fm) between the Rhodes Formation (now including three Members: Kritika, Kolymbia, and Lindos Bay clay) and the Lindos Acropolis Formation. The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary was positioned within the Lindos Bay clay (Keraudren 1970, Sissingh 1972, Benda et al 1977, Lovlie et al 1989, Hanken et al 1996.…”

Section: Geological Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%