A late Quaternary multiple paleovalley system from the Adriatic coastal plain (Biferno River, Southern Italy)

Amorosi, Alessandro; Bracone, Vito; Campo, Bruno; D’Amico, Carmine; Rossi, Verónica; Rosskopf, Carmen Maria

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.11.023

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“…has a depositional origin associated with Upper Quaternary nearshore or transitional deposits. Although no absolute data are available, the developed chronostratigraphic framework (Bracone et al 2012a;Amorosi et al 2016) allows us to constrain the age of this palaeosurface to the Middle-Late Pleistocene.…”

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“…1), has been much less studied, apart from some geological (Lanzafame & Tortorici 1976;Vezzani et al 2004Vezzani et al , 2010 and geomorphological study (Aucelli et al 2001. Finally, the north-eastern, coastal sector was mainly investigated first for petroleum research (Casnedi et al 1981(Casnedi et al , 1982Cello et al 1989), then subsurface stratigraphic charac terization of the Pliocene-Pleistocene successions (Amorosi et al 2009(Amorosi et al , 2016Bracone et al 2012a, b) and, finally, in relation to the genesis and evolution of the alluvial plains of the Trigno and Biferno rivers (Aucelli et al 2001;Frezza et al 2012;D'Amico et al 2013;Rosskopf & Scorpio 2013;Amorosi et al 2016).…”

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Long-term landscape evolution of the Molise sector of the central-southern Apennines, Italy

Amato¹,

Aucelli²,

Bracone³

et al. 2017

Geologica Carpathica

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This paper concerns the reconstruction of the main stages of the long-term landscape evolution of the Molise portion of the central-southern Apennines along a transect divided into three sectors (SW, Central and NE). Analysis mainly focused on geomorphological, stratigraphical and structural data supported by chronological constraints, coming from an overall review of past literature and several studies carried out by the authors of the paper during the last 20 years. The results obtained allowed the elaboration of a conceptual model of the long-term evolution of the Molise sector of the central-southern Apennines. Starting from the Pliocene, the emersion of the Molise area occurred gradually from SW to NE, allowing a polycyclic landscape to evolve under the major controls first of compression then transtensional to extensional tectonics as well as climatic variations. Principal markers of the Quaternary geomorphological evolution of the Molise area are represented by the infill successions of the intermontane tectonic depressions located in its internal, SW sector and by four orders of palaeosurfaces that developed between the Early Pleistocene and the beginning of the Late Pleistocene across the region. These markers testify to the alternation of phases of substantial tectonic stability and uplift whose spatial-temporal distribution could be assessed along the investigated transect. Results highlight that the most important stages of landscape evolution occurred during the Early and Middle Pleistocene. At the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, the Molise sector of the Apennine chain had already reached its present setting and further landscape evolution occurred under the major control of climate and land-use.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Long-term landscape evolution of the Molise sector of the central-southern Apennines, Italy

Amato¹,

Aucelli²,

Bracone³

et al. 2017

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“…-Four fa cies as so ci a tions ac cording to Miall (2006) and Cam po et al (2016) were dis tin guished in this con tri bu tion (Fig. 7).…”

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“…How ever, they were not the ob ject of the study and were thus at trib uted to terres trial clays and silts. The fa cies iden ti fied were in ter preted accord ing to their or i gin and grouped into fa cies as so ci a tions based on Miall (2006), Amorosi et al (2008) and Cam po et al (2016). The ge netic in ter pre ta tion of the strati graphic units is based mainly on depositional pro cesses iden ti fied by fa cies anal y sis of cor re la tive ex po sures.…”

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“…6) is in ter preted as a chute chan nel formed in the up per part of the point bar, sim i lar to the one de scribed by Ghazi and Mountney (2009). The up per most mas sive to weakly strat i fied clays and silts were de pos ited from 530 Michal Šujan et al A -trough cross-strat i fied sands; B -tran si tion from trough cross-strat i fied sands to rip ple cross-strat i fied sands and to flaser bed ding, note muddy intraclast a few cm in di am e ter marked in lithofacies St; C -rip ple cross-strat i fied sands; D -de tail of in clined heterolithic strat i fi ca tion (IHS), note the chang ing li thol ogy and ero sive con tacts; E -de tail of IHS with oc cur rence of rip ples and flaser bed ding, for more de tails see Fig ure E1; F -lower part of IHS con sist ing of fos sil roots, which are formed in a silty layer to gether with an ini tial pedogenic ho ri zon; Gtrough cross-strat i fied sands; H -floodplain fines over lain by a Qua ter nary loess se quence; lithofacies codes are ex plained in Ta ble 1; dat ing re sults are ac cord ing to Šujan et al (2016) sus pen sion in an unchannelized overbank en vi ron ment, then mod i fied by pedogenic and ox i da tion pro cesses that are, inter alia, in dic a tive of a floodplain or i gin (Mc Car thy et al, 1998;Cam po et al, 2016). The com plete al lu vial suc ces sion at the out crop, to gether with the over ly ing overbank fines, con sti tutes an up wards fin ing cy cle, typ i cal of a me an der ing chan nel belt.…”

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Late Miocene fluvial distributary system in the northern Danube Basin (Pannonian Basin System): depositional processes, stratigraphic architecture and controlling factors of the Piešťany Member (Volkovce Formation)

Šujan¹,

Kováč²,

Hók³

et al. 2017

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M., Kováè, M., Hók, J., Šujan, M., Braucher, R., Rybár, S., de Leeuw, A., 2017. Late Mio cene flu vial distributary system in the north ern Dan ube Ba sin (Pannonian Ba sin Sys tem): depositional pro cesses, strati graphic ar chi tec ture and con trolling fac tors of the Piešïany Mem ber (Volkovce For ma tion). Geo log i cal Quar terly, 61 (3): 521-548, doi: 10.7306/gq.1360Aim of the study was to in ves ti gate the de tailed strati graphic ar chi tec ture of the al lu vial Volkovce For ma tion, which was de pos ited in the north ern Dan ube Ba sin dur ing the in ter val be tween 10 and 6 Ma. Two type lo cal ity ex po sures were sub ject to fa cies anal y sis and in ter pre ta tion of depositional pro cesses and >500 bore holes served for cor re la tion of spa tial vari abil ity in the char ac ter of the for ma tion. The study was fo cused on the north ern Blatné and west ern Rišòovce de pres sions, which are partly sep a rated by the Považský Inovec Moun tains horst. It was re vealed, that a mostly grav elly flu vial distributary system of the Piešïany Mem ber was de pos ited in the north ern Blatné de pres sion, partly con fined by the ex posed horst and by in cised palaeotopography. The se quence is com posed of amal gam ated braided river chan nel bod ies with no overbank strata, in re sponse to high sed i ment sup ply and low ac com mo da tion. The palaeo-stream then crossed the horst in its southern part to wards the Rišòovce de pres sion, where there was four times more ac com mo da tion. The sub merged horst acted as a bound ary, where the depositional pro cesses changed to a me an der ing river and sig nif i cant overbank de pos its started to be pre served. Only small streams were pres ent in the north ern Rišòovce de pres sion, which led to very low sed i ment sup ply com pared to the high ac com mo da tion there. The depositional sys tem was af fected mainly by the in cised palaeotopography, by the lo ca tion of sed i ment in put to gether with spa tial dif fer ences in ac com mo da tion rate caused by the ac tiv ity of the Ripòany Fault on the south east ern side of the Považský Inovec Mts.

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Millennial‐scale shifts in microtidal ecosystems during the Holocene: dynamics and drivers of change from the Po Plain coastal record (NE Italy)

Rossi

Barbieri

Vaiani

et al. 2021

J Quaternary Science

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Framed into a robust stratigraphic context, multivariate analyses on the Holocene palaeobiological record (pollen, benthic foraminifers, ostracods) of the Po coastal plain (NE Italy) allowed the investigation of microtidal ecosystems variability and driving parameters along a 35-km-long land-sea transect. Millennial-scale ecosystem shifts are documented by coeval changes in the meiofauna, reflecting variations in organic matter-water depth (shallowmarine environments) and degree of confinement-salinity (back-barrier settings). In-phase shifts of vegetation communities track unsteady water-table levels and river dynamics in freshwater palustrine areas. Five environmental-ecological stages followed one another crossing four tipping points that mark changes in relative sea level (RSL), climate and/or fluvial regime. At the culmination of Mediterranean RSL rise, after the 8200 event, remarkable growth of peatlands took place in the Po estuary, while low accumulation rates typified the shelf. At the transgressive-regressive turnaround (~7000 cal a BP), the estuary turned into a delta plain with tidally influenced interdistributary embayments. River flow regime oscillations after the Climate Optimum (post-5000 cal a BP) favoured isolation of the bays and the development of brackish wetlands surrounded by wooded peatlands. The youngest threshold (~800 cal a BP), which led to the establishment of the modern delta, reflects a major avulsion of the Po River.

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A late Quaternary multiple paleovalley system from the Adriatic coastal plain (Biferno River, Southern Italy)

Cited by 31 publications

References 85 publications

Long-term landscape evolution of the Molise sector of the central-southern Apennines, Italy

Long-term landscape evolution of the Molise sector of the central-southern Apennines, Italy

Late Miocene fluvial distributary system in the northern Danube Basin (Pannonian Basin System): depositional processes, stratigraphic architecture and controlling factors of the Piešťany Member (Volkovce Formation)

Millennial‐scale shifts in microtidal ecosystems during the Holocene: dynamics and drivers of change from the Po Plain coastal record (NE Italy)

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