Holocene sedimentation in the Strait of Otranto between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas (Mediterranean)

Hesse, Reinhard; Rad, Ulrich von; Fabricius, F.

doi:10.1016/0025-3227(71)90058-2

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“…also found in other piston cores throughout the Ionian Basin (Parker, 1958;Olausson, 1961Olausson, , 1965; Grazzini-Vergnaud and Herman-Rosenberg, 1969;Herman, 1971a, b;Pastouret, 1970;Hesse, et al, 1971) was not found in the first core cut beneath the sea floor at Site 125. In particular, a series of tephra layers interbedded in and between layers of black sapropel mud in piston core RC9-185 was not found at Site 125.…”

Section: Incomplete Uppermost Quaternary Sectionsmentioning

confidence: 50%

Quaternary Record in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Basins of the Mediterranean Sea

Cita¹,

Chierici²,

Ciampo³

et al. 1973

Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project

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Globigerina bulloides cTOrbigny Globigerina digitata Brady Globigerina eggeri Rhumbler Globigerina falconensis Blow Globigerina incompta Cifelli Globigerina pachyderma (Ehrenberg) Globigerina praedigitata Parker Globigerina quinqueloba Natland Globigerinoides conglobatus (Brady) Globigerinoides elongatus (d'Orbigny) Globigerinoides fistulosus (Schubert) Globigerinoides helicinus (d'Orbigny) Globigerinoides quadrilobatus (d'Orbigny) Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny) Globigerinoides sacculifer (Brady) Globigerinoides trilobus (Reuss) Globigerinita glutinata (Egger) Globigerinita uvula (Ehrenberg) Globorotalia crassaformis (Galloway & Wissler) Globorotalia crassaformis viola Blow Globorotalia inflata (d'Orbigny) Globorotalia scitula (Brady) Globorotalia tosaensis Takayanagi & Saito Globorotalia truncatulinoides (d'Orbigny) Hastigerina pelagica (d'Orbigny) Hastigerina siphonifera (d'Orbigny) Orbulina bilobata (d'Orbigny) Orbulina universa d'Orbigny Sphaeroidinella dehiscens

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Section: Incomplete Uppermost Quaternary Sectionsmentioning

confidence: 50%

Quaternary Record in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Basins of the Mediterranean Sea

Cita¹,

Chierici²,

Ciampo³

et al. 1973

Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project

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“…These sediments, ranging from coarse sand to silt, locally contain densely packed traces belonging to Scolicia, Ophiomorpha nodosa and, subordinately, tiny branched burrows (unpublished data). Hesse, Von Rad & Fabricius (1970) found meniscate traces in Holocene sediments, collected from a depth of 840 m to 1050 m in the Otranto Strait. These authors refer to meniscate structures, typically more or less restricted to the mud layers immediately overlying sandy beds, to the heart urchin Echinocardium.…”

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confidence: 84%

Sand waves, Echinocardium traces and their bathyal depositional setting (Monte Torre Palaeostrait, Plio‐Pleistocene, southern Italy).

Colella

D'Alessandro²

1988

Sedimentology

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Stacked cross‐sets, up to 2.5 m thick, produced by sand wave migration and meniscate trace fossils produced by Echinocardium cordatum, both considered in the literature as typical of shallow‐water marine depositional settings, commonly occur in the bathyal Plio‐Pleistocene deposits of Monte Torre (Calabria, southern Italy). The Plio‐Pleistocene sediments form two coarsening‐upward depositional sequences, separated by an unconformity and by a palaeobathymetric gap of at least 300 m. The lower sequence passes upwards from hemipelagic marls and thin‐bedded turbidites to thick‐bedded sandy turbidites, then to sand wave deposits alternated with sandy turbidites, and finally to base‐of‐slope megabreccias. Facies characteristics and relationships, and the occurrence of deep‐sea faunal associations, indicate deposition in the bathyal zone. The facies of the upper sequence reflect a fan‐delta environment, no deeper than a few tens of metres. The depositional setting of the lower sequence, where the sand wave deposits and meniscate trace fossils occur, appears to have been a tectonically controlled seaway, connecting the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas. This seaway became progressively narrower with time, evolving into a strait. The overall coarsening‐upward trend reflects the upward transition from a low to a high‐energy environment, possibly caused by the tectonic narrowing of the seaway. Deposition and erosion from high‐concentration turbidity currents and from tidal bottom currents were important processes. Periods of tectonic activity, producing first the uplift of the seaway margins and culminating with the uplift of the strait sequence itself, are marked by‐scattered rockfall deposits. The strait setting, causing the development of powerful, oxygenated bottom currents, produced optimal conditions in the bathyal zone for the colonization of sandy bottoms by a single infaunal r‐selected species, Echinocardium sp.

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“…A facies similar to facies 1 has been described from Pleistocene and Holocene sediments in the Mediterranean (Hesse et al 1971;Nesteroff 1973;Kidd et al 1978;Stanley 1978).…”

Section: Geological Setting and Agementioning

confidence: 63%

Growth and mortality in two Pleistocene bathyal micromorphic bivalves

Sørensen

1984

LET

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Size‐frequency and growth‐ring data have been used to calculate mortality and growth patterns in two micromorphic bivalve species from pelagic mud of Lower‐Middle Pleistocene age on Rhodes (Greece). Phaseolus ovatus Sequenza, a lametilid deposit‐feeder, showed increasing mortality and a slow‐fast‐slow growth pattern accompanied by an abrupt change of shape in the fast‐growing interval. This in turn is coincident with a minimum in the size‐frequency distribution. The bimodality occurring in all distributions is interpreted as a recurrent population character, probably a non‐annual reproduction cycle, while height and spacing of the modes, which differ among the distributions, are environmentally controlled. Kelliella miliaris (Philippi), a vesicomyid suspension‐feeder, showed a near‐constant mortality and a logarithmic growth rate. The difference in mortality between the two species is related to grain‐size of the sediment and to stability of the food source. Growth pattern, mortality, food sources, reproduction.

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Holocene sedimentation in the Strait of Otranto between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas (Mediterranean)

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Quaternary Record in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Basins of the Mediterranean Sea

Quaternary Record in the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Basins of the Mediterranean Sea

Sand waves, Echinocardium traces and their bathyal depositional setting (Monte Torre Palaeostrait, Plio‐Pleistocene, southern Italy).

Growth and mortality in two Pleistocene bathyal micromorphic bivalves

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