Development and deformation of marine terraces: Constraints to the evolution of the Campania Plain Quaternary coastal basin (Italy)

Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean

“…Zanchetta et al (2004) describe several boreholes in the Livorno Terrace where coastal marine-cemented sands with shells are found at 5-10 m a.s.l. Summarizing previous studies, Ciampalini et al (2006) clarify that these deposits are attributed to MIS 5e mostly based on the presence of Senegalese fauna.…”

“…to MIS 5e, correlating it with the C. caespitosa dated at the San Marcellino core and described above. However, a recent work (Cerrone et al, 2021c) correlates the formation of this raised marine terrace with an older MIS, constrained by new U-series dating. This point was therefore not inserted into the database.…”

Segmentation of the Apenninic Margin of the Tyrrhenian Back‐Arc Basin Forced by the Subduction of an Inherited Transform System

“…These structures regionally form a recess of the NE-SW striking extensional fault system that has in its hanging wall the Latin Valley and the Campania Plain basins, where instrumental seismicity is almost absent. The latter basin developed since the Early Pleistocene (Cinque et al, 2000;Santangelo et al, 2017;Sartori et al, 2001), and despite the general NW-SE and NE-SW trend of main faults, it also includes Quaternary E-W striking extensional faults (e.g., Cerrone et al, 2021). The onset of extension in the Latin Valley basin is dated to the late Pliocene (Galadini & Messina, 2004).…”

Seismo-Stratigraphic Data of Wave-Cut Marine Terraces in the Licosa Promontory (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

“…The item of the tectonic uplift and the relationships with the onshore and offshore terraced landforms on the Eastern Tyrrhenian margin between the Cilento Promontory and Sapri have been deeply studied, including some several key papers [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Aiello [21] found evidence of marine terraces near the Cilento Promontory by studying a grid of Sub-bottom Chirp profiles and identifying the inner parts of the terraces as wavy-cut rocky terraces.…”

“…The Cilento Promontory has been affected by a tectonic uplift of about 400 m, Early-Middle Pleistocene in age. The tectonic uplift of the Cilento Promontory, as well as of the Southern Apennines, has been evaluated using the axial growth of Pleistocene marine terraces cropping out onshore [11,[13][14][15][25][26][27]. In particular, the geomorphological study has evaluated the vertical offsets of the marine terraces based on both the height of the fault scarps and the rate of displacements affecting indicators of ancient base levels [11,[13][14][15][25][26][27].…”