Large-scale stratigraphic architecture and sequence analysis of an early Pleistocene submarine canyon fill, Monte Ascensione succession (Peri-Adriatic basin, eastern central Italy)

Celma, Claudio Di; Teloni, Riccardo; Rustichelli, Andrea

doi:10.1007/s00531-013-0984-3

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“…In later stages of channel aggradation, the channelcut is partly-to-fully filled due to system back-stepping through relative sea-level rise, or other mechanisms, reducing flow-volume and sediment supply to the channel-fill (e.g. Mutti and Normark, 1987;Clark and Pickering, 1996;Campion et al, 2000;Gardner and Borer, 2000;McHargue et al, 2011;Di Celma et al, 2014;Hubbard et al, 2014 ;Hodgson et al, 2016).…”

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Spatial variability in depositional reservoir quality of deep-water channel-fill and lobe deposits

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Pontén

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Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Spatial variability in depositional reservoir quality of deep-water channel-fill and lobe deposits

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Pontén

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Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…While submarine canyons are often linked to more allocyclic controls (eustasy, denudation, and tectonics), aggrading channelized systems respond more to autocyclic, localized processes (Posamentier et al, 1991;Posamentier and Kolla, 2003;Mountjoy et al, 2009;Sylvester et al, 2011;Di Celma et al, 2014). We define sub marine canyons as deeply incised, long-lived sediment conduits with hundreds of Greene and Surpless | Facies architecture and provenance of a boulder-conglomerate, Panoche Formation GEOSPHERE | Volume 13 | Number 3 meters to a km of bathymetric relief (Bain and Hubbard, 2016).…”

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Facies architecture and provenance of a boulder-conglomerate submarine channel system, Panoche Formation, Great Valley Group: A forearc basin response to middle Cretaceous tectonism in the California convergent margin

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2017

Geosphere

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Tectonic reorganization induced by a rapid increase in plate motion obliquity and rate beginning at ca. 100 Ma affected California's Andean-style convergent margin, with concomitant changes in the accretionary prism of the Franciscan Complex, the Great Valley forearc basin, and the Sierran continental arc. Using facies analysis and a combined provenance approach, we suggest that this ca. 100 Ma tectonic signal is preserved in a Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) boulder-conglomerate outcrop along the San Luis Reservoir (SLR) in the southern Great Valley, which represents the thickest and coarsest deep-water deposit ever described in the Great Valley Group (GVG). We document a 1.8-km-thick by 4-km-long depositional-dip profile of an interpreted SE-directed (axial) submarine channel system that is part of a conglomeratic package that stretches 20 km along the east-central Diablo Range. Our facies analysis of the SLR area documents five facies associations within four aggradational channel complex sets, followed by regional abandonment.Sandstone petrography and mudrock geochemical data suggest a dissected continental Sierra Nevadan arc source. Conglomerate clast counts show abundant ophiolitic-type clasts that may be derived from the Coast Range Ophiolite and/or the Western Sierra Nevada Metamorphic Belt. Detrital-zircon geochronology data also indicate western and central Sierra Nevadan sources; however, we interpret an anomalous (relative to other Cenomanian localities) 105-95 Ma zircon population to indicate the initial erosional products from the volcanic carapace associated with the Late Cretaceous magmatic flare-up within the eastern Sierran arc. This flare-up has been linked to an increase in arc-parallel plate motion that induced deformation along shear zones in the eastern Sierra Nevada, allowing for widespread plutonism. Our provenance interpretation makes the SLR area the earliest Upper Cretaceous GVG locality to receive significant detritus from the flare-up, effectively linking tectonic plate motion changes and coarse-grained, deep-water forearc sedimentation.

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“…The Monte Ascensione succession represents the oldest turbidite system exposed in the study area (Di Celma et al, 2014). Its strata crop out over an area of approximately 40 km 2 at the western end of the investigated area and extend from the Monte Ascensione to the south, where their eroded up-system extent projects into the air, and the village of Montelparo in the north.…”

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“…Regional field mapping of the exhumed early Pleistocene sedimentary succession of the PeriAdriatic basin (eastern central Italy) led to the identification of a series of deeply incised, mixed mud, and coarse-grained clastic slope turbidite systems (Di Celma, 2011;Di Celma, Cantalamessa, & Didaskalou, 2013;Di Celma, Cantalamessa, Didaskalou, & Lori, 2010;Di Celma, Teloni, & Rustichelli, 2014), which preserve an extraordinary record of orbitally dictated glacio-eustatic changes in the sea level (Cantalamessa et al, 2009;Di Celma & Cantalamessa, 2012). This article deals with four of these turbidite systems exposed at Monte Ascensione, Castignano, Offida, and Montedinove in southern Marche ( Figure 1) and focuses on the exceptional opportunity they provide to document, from an outcrop perspective, the important impact of structurally generated bathymetric relief on the routing of gravity currents depositing sand on deep-water basin floors and the long-term evolution of continental slope morphology from a thrust-related stepped slope, to a smooth, healed slope.…”

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Evolution of the Gelasian (Pleistocene) slope turbidite systems of southern Marche (Peri-Adriatic basin, central Italy)

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Examples of slope channels and canyons being diverted by structurally related sea-floor topography are commonly found both on the modern seabed and in the subsurface, in deepwater fold and thrust belts but their depositional histories have rarely been documented using examples from outcrop. The synthesis of outcrop (original geological field mapping at 1:10,000 scale) and subsurface data sets from the early Pleistocene stratigraphic succession of the Peri-Adriatic basin provides a window into the overall evolutionary pattern of large intraslope turbidite systems that, during the Gelasian (2.58-1.80 Ma), shed Apenninederived clastic sediments into the adjacent deep-water basin. Trends from mapping and paleocurrent indicators converge to indicate that the sea-floor bathymetric expression of a thrust-related anticline, the north-trending Jesi-Nereto-Zaccheo structure, likely influenced the downslope transport direction of gravity flows and sediment dispersal pattern. During early and middle Gelasian time, coarse-grained turbidite deposition occurred on the western flank of the intraslope anticline by westerly sourced, northward-flowing turbidity currents, indicating that the opposing sea-floor topography was sufficient to cause the diversion of turbidite systems, forcing them to travel near parallel to the east-facing regional paleoslope for significant distances. By very late Gelasian time, the intraslope accommodation space on the western flank of the anticline had filled and turbidites were dispersed through diporiented conduits incising across the crest of the underlying structure.

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Large-scale stratigraphic architecture and sequence analysis of an early Pleistocene submarine canyon fill, Monte Ascensione succession (Peri-Adriatic basin, eastern central Italy)

Cited by 15 publications

References 114 publications

Spatial variability in depositional reservoir quality of deep-water channel-fill and lobe deposits

Spatial variability in depositional reservoir quality of deep-water channel-fill and lobe deposits

Facies architecture and provenance of a boulder-conglomerate submarine channel system, Panoche Formation, Great Valley Group: A forearc basin response to middle Cretaceous tectonism in the California convergent margin

Evolution of the Gelasian (Pleistocene) slope turbidite systems of southern Marche (Peri-Adriatic basin, central Italy)

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