Facies and Stratigraphic Anatomy of a Temperate Carbonate Sequence (Capo Colonna Terrace, Late Pleistocene, Southern Italy)

25 years of satellite InSAR monitoring of ground instability and coastal geohazards in the archaeological site of Capo Colonna, Italy

“…The upper part of the promontory is occupied by the staircase of three marine terraces (Middle to Late Pleistocene), of which the Capo Colonna terrace is the youngest (Figure 1c). The latter consists of carbonate and siliciclastic sediments (up to 10 m thick) unconformably overlying the Plio-Pleistocene slope succession of the Cutro Clay Formation [13][14]. The Ntrending internal border of the terrace represents a paleo-coastline.…”

Paleoecology and dynamics of coralline dominated facies during a Pleistocene transgressive–regressive cycle (Capo Colonna marine terrace, Southern Italy)

“…Shallow water marine biogenic carbonate facies, including extensive coralline algal build-ups, are exceptionally well represented. Previous works have focused on in depth analyses of facies and stratigraphic architecture of the terrace deposits (Nalin and Massari, 2009;Zecchin et al, 2009;Zecchin and Caffau, 2011), but only limited paleontological and paleoecological information is available on the carbonate facies (Gliozzi, 1987;Nalin and Braga, 2008 Zecchin et al (2009) illustrated the composite nature of the Capo Colonna marine terrace by documenting the preservation in its sedimentary cover of two high frequency transgressive-regressive cycles arranged in a retrogradational stacking pattern. The deposits of the oldest cycle are preserved only in the distal part of the promontory and are not discussed further in this paper.…”

“…This cycle is strongly asymmetrical, with a thicker regressive portion, and it is bounded at its base by a wave ravinement surface and at its top by a surface of subaerial exposure (Nalin and Massari, 2009;Zecchin et al, 2009).…”

“…The coralline dominated deposits (including abundant build-ups) in the sedimentary cover of the terrace are observable along a~2.5 km long outcrop roughly perpendicular to the paleo-coastline. This exposure effectively corresponds to a transect of shelf deposits developed during a well expressed transgressive regressive cycle (Nalin and Massari, 2009;Zecchin and Caffau, 2011). The aims of this study are a) to characterize morphologically (at the macroscopic level) and compositionally coralline dominated build-ups and rhodolith rich facies in the deposits of the Capo Colonna terrace; b) to analyze the relationship between substrate type and establishment of different red algal facies, and possible feedback mechanisms on the substrate related to the development of red algal deposits; and c) to provide a model for the spatio-temporal distribution of red algal facies along the shelf during the formation of a high frequency stratigraphic sequence.…”

Metre-scale cyclicity in Middle Eocene platform carbonates in northern Egypt: Implications for facies development and sequence stratigraphy

“…As we see by the correlation, the widely changing thicknesses of sedimentary units and sedimentary features, traces of volcanic activities, or abrupt facies changes in the studies areas have not been observed, which implies that the change in the Middle Eocene rate of sea-level have been the primary control on facies, depositional environments and stratigraphic architecture (Pedley andCarannante, 2006, Nalin andMassari, 2009). Such inference is also supported by the plausible match of our detailed correlations with the global sea level curves of Haq (1988) and Snedden and Chengjie (2010) (Fig.…”