Messinian reef-building assemblages of the Salento Peninsula (southern Italy): palaeobathymetric and palaeoclimatic significance

Bosellini, Francesca; Russo, Antonio; Vescogni, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(01)00383-2

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“…2c). The recognized margin is consistent with the outcropping of a Messinian reef that is located on the SE-Salento shoreline and described by Bosellini et al (2001). The complex boundaries of the Southern Apulia platform were also investigated by ENI in the area between the Albanian coast and the Southern Salento offshore (Fig.…”

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Old domains in the South Adria plate and their relationship with the West Hellenic front

Ben

Mocnik

Volpi

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Journal of Geodynamics

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“…4). This feature has several analogies with the Early Messinian reef complex along the eastern coast of the Salento peninsula described by Bosellini et al (1999Bosellini et al ( , 2001.…”

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Old domains in the South Adria plate and their relationship with the West Hellenic front

Ben

Mocnik

Volpi

et al. 2015

Journal of Geodynamics

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“…The outcropping successions consist of in situ coral reef bioconstructions, clinostratified breccias and associated bioclastic and lithoclastic prograding slope deposits and fine-grained, bioclastic base-of-slope calcarenites. Similarly to the previous two localities, the bedding attitude in the sampled sites is most likely primary (Bosellini et al, 1999b(Bosellini et al, , a, 2001Vescogni, 2000). At each subsite 20 samples were collected from a 10 m thick interval.…”

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Did Adria rotate relative to Africa?

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Abstract. The first and foremost boundary condition for kinematic reconstructions of the Mediterranean region is the relative motion between Africa and Eurasia, constrained through reconstructions of the Atlantic Ocean. The Adria continental block is in a downgoing plate position relative to the strongly curved central Mediterranean subductionrelated orogens, and forms the foreland of the Apennines, Alps, Dinarides, and Albanides-Hellenides. It is connected to the African plate through the Ionian Basin, likely with Lower Mesozoic oceanic lithosphere. If the relative motion of Adria versus Africa is known, its position relative to Eurasia can be constrained through a plate circuit, thus allowing robust boundary conditions for the reconstruction of the complex kinematic history of the Mediterranean region. Based on kinematic reconstructions for the Neogene motion of Adria versus Africa, as interpreted from the Alps and from Ionian Basin and its surrounding areas, it has been suggested that Adria underwent counterclockwise (ccw) vertical axis rotations ranging from ∼ 0 to 20 • . Here, we provide six new paleomagnetic poles from Adria, derived from the Lower Cretaceous to Upper Miocene carbonatic units of the Apulian peninsula (southern Italy). These, in combination with published poles from the Po Plain (Italy), the Istrian peninsula (Croatia), and the Gargano promontory (Italy), document a post-Eocene 9.8 ± 9.5 • counterclockwise vertical axis rotation of Adria. Our results do not show evidence of significant Africa-Adria rotation between the Early Cretaceous and Eocene. Models based on reconstructions of the Alps, invoking 17 • ccw rotation, and based on the Ionian Basin, invoking 2 • ccw rotation, are both permitted within the documented rotation range, yet are mutually exclusive. This apparent enigma could possibly be solved only if one or more of the following conditions are satisfied: (i) Neogene shortening in the western Alps has been significantly underestimated (by as much as 150 km); (ii) Neogene extension in the Ionian Basin has been significantly underestimated (by as much as 420 km); and/or (iii) a major sinistral strike-slip zone has decoupled northern and southern Adria in Neogene time. Here we present five alternative reconstructions of Adria at 20 Ma, highlighting the kinematic uncertainties, and satisfying the inferred rotation pattern from this study and/or from previously proposed kinematic reconstructions.

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“…The more distal facies is constituted by the bioclastic packstone to floatstone with platy Porites (F4), characterized by scattered encrusting tabular colonies of Porites in growth position occurring in a deeper and lower-energy environment (cf. Esteban 1996;Riegl and Piller 2000;Bosellini et al 2001Bosellini et al , 2002.…”

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Depositional model and paleodepth reconstruction of a coral-rich, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate system: the Burdigalian of Capo Testa (northern Sardinia, Italy)

Brandano

Tomassetti

Bosellini

et al. 2009

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This study presents a detailed facies analysis and paleodepth reconstruction of a coral-rich mixed siliciclastic-carbonate system Burdigalian in age, outcropping in the northern sector of Sardinia (Capo Testa). Excellent exposures of continuous sea-cliff outcrops around the southwestern and northeastern area of Capo Testa promontory allowed us to: (1) trace stratigraphic surfaces; (2) document stratal geometries; (3) discern details of the lithofacies and, (4) reconstruct the paleodepths of the different depositional environments. A total of seven sedimentary facies has been recognized and interpreted: siliciclastic conglomerate and coarse bioclastic sandstone (F1), fine- to medium-grained hybrid sandstone (F2, scleractinian coral domestone (F3), bioclastic packstone to floatstone with platy Porites (F4), red algae floatstone to rudstone (F5), larger benthic foraminifers (LBF) bioclastic rudstone floatstone in a packstone matrix (F6), molluscan floatstone in a bioclastic packstone matrix (F7). The investigated system is characterized by nearshore to shoreface deposits with a conspicuous terrigenous content that grades seaward into deeper zones where coral patch-reefs developed in association with adjacent areas colonized by seagrass meadows. The more distal facies are constituted by scattered encrusting tabular colonies of Porites in growth position occurring in a deeper and lower-energy environment. The paleodepth interval that is observed in the Capo Testa outcrop ranges from 0 to 50 m

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Messinian reef-building assemblages of the Salento Peninsula (southern Italy): palaeobathymetric and palaeoclimatic significance

Cited by 45 publications

References 37 publications

Old domains in the South Adria plate and their relationship with the West Hellenic front

Old domains in the South Adria plate and their relationship with the West Hellenic front

Did Adria rotate relative to Africa?

Depositional model and paleodepth reconstruction of a coral-rich, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate system: the Burdigalian of Capo Testa (northern Sardinia, Italy)

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