Middle-Late Pleistocene polycyclic evolution of a stable coastal area (southern Apulia, Italy)

Quantitative analysis of extensional joints in the southern Adriatic foreland (Italy), and the active tectonics of the Apulia region

“…(1) seismicity is low, widespread and seemingly trendless; (2) no information on the active stress field is available from breakout data; (3) geomorphological studies indicate that the southernmost tip of the study area underwent uplift during the Middle Pleistocene, followed by a relative stability during the past 330 ka (Mastronuzzi et al, 2007b), while the Taranto area has been uplifted at 0.14-0.25 mm/a since the Late Pleistocene (Bordoni and Valensise, 1998;Caputo et al, 2007).…”

Raw material economy in Salento (Apulia, Italy): new perspectives on Neanderthal mobility patterns

“…Until now, in Italian literature, the chronology of these sites has been established mainly by stone tool typology (Palma di Cesnola, 1996). Additionally, the assemblages from these sites are likely younger than MIS 5e (Mastronuzzi et al, 2007) because the marine transgression is present at the base of the stratigraphic sequences (for a complete discussion see Spinapolice, 2008). The sites have been attributed to MIS 4 and 3 on the basis of fauna and sedimentology, and stratigraphic correlations to marine oscillations (Milliken, 2001).…”

Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World: Results of the ARCHGLASS project

“…This results in relatively unradiogenic Nd isotopic signatures for sands in the gulf (IT90). The Ofanto River sediments get further transported to the south along the Apulian coast at least up to the Cape of Otranto (Caldara et al, 1998;Mastronuzzi et al, 2007). The heavy mineral fraction of these sediments contributes to the beach sands along the coast which consequently show relatively high ε Nd values (IT87).…”