Pleistocene coralline algal build-ups (
            <i>coralligène de plateau</i>
            ) and associated bioclastic deposits in the sedimentary cover of Cutro marine terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)

Nalin, Ronald; Basso, Daniela; Massari, Francesco

doi:10.1144/gsl.sp.2006.255.01.02

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“…7). An extensive growth of algal build ups with a similar faunal assemblage has been ascribed by Nalin et al (2006) to an highstand phase on Mediterranean soft bottoms.…”

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Late-Quaternary terraced marine deposits as tools for wide-scale correlation of unconformity-bounded units in the volcanic Aeolian archipelago (southern Italy)

Lucchi

2009

Sedimentary Geology

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“…7). An extensive growth of algal build ups with a similar faunal assemblage has been ascribed by Nalin et al (2006) to an highstand phase on Mediterranean soft bottoms.…”

Section: Systems Tractsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Late-Quaternary terraced marine deposits as tools for wide-scale correlation of unconformity-bounded units in the volcanic Aeolian archipelago (southern Italy)

Lucchi

2009

Sedimentary Geology

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“…In the Mediterranean region, several fossil examples of red algal build-ups and rhodolithic accumulations have been described, with published accounts more commonly devoted to rhodolithic deposits (among others: Braga and Martin, 1988;Bassi et al, 2009Bassi et al, , 2010Mutti et al, 2010;Basso et al, 2012). Very few comparable fossil counterparts of C have been documented (Basso et al, 2007;Titschack et al, 2008), with some analogs from southern and central Italy (Carannante and Simone, 1996;Nalin et al, 2006;Basso et al, 2007), the Maltese Islands (Bosence and Pedley, 1982) and Austria (Rasser, 2000) described as growing on soft substrate.…”

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

Bracchi

Nalin

Basso

2014

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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“…Facies A1 is interpreted as an algal reef, inferred to be growing in the mid‐shelf at an optimum depth between 40 and 60 m as observed in the present day (Laborel, 1961; Pérès & Picard, 1964; Bosence, 1983; Nalin et al. , 2006).…”

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“…Assuming an uplift rate at the time of the formation of the Cutro Terrace of ca 1 m kyr −1 (Zecchin et al. , 2004b), comparable glacio‐eustatic rises for MIS 7·5 and 7·1, and an optimum depth for red algae growth starting from ca 40 m (Nalin et al. , 2006), the innermost part of the algal reefs (Cutro 1 cycle) would be raised near the position of the Cutro 2 cycle MFP during the time interval separating the two isotopic sub‐stages, supporting the interpretations presented here (Fig.…”

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Sequence stratigraphy in the context of rapid regional uplift and high‐amplitude glacio‐eustatic changes: the Pleistocene Cutro Terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)

Zecchin¹,

Civile²,

Caffau³

et al. 2010

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The Cutro Terrace is a mixed marine to continental terrace, where deposits up to 15 m thick discontinuously crop out in an area extending for ca 360 km2 near Crotone (southern Italy). The terrace represents the oldest and highest terrace of the Crotone area, and it has been ascribed to marine isotope stage 7 (ca 200 kyr bp). Detailed facies and sequence‐stratigraphic analyses of the terrace deposits allow the recognition of a suite of depositional environments ranging from middle shelf to fluvial, and of two stacked transgressive–regressive cycles (Cutro 1 and Cutro 2) bounded by ravinement surfaces and by surfaces of sub‐aerial exposure. In particular, carbonate sedimentation, consisting of algal build‐ups and biocalcarenites, characterizes the Cutro 1 cycle in the southern sector of the terrace, and passes into shoreface and foreshore sandstones and calcarenites towards the north‐west. The Cutro 2 cycle is mostly siliciclastic and consists of shoreface, lagoon‐estuarine, fluvial channel fill, floodplain and lacustrine deposits. The Cutro 1 cycle is characterized by very thin transgressive marine strata, represented by lags and shell beds upon a ravinement surface, and thicker regressive deposits. Moreover, the cycle appears foreshortened basinwards, which suggests that the accumulation of its distal and upper part occurred during forced regressive conditions. The Cutro 2 cycle displays a marked aggradational component of transgressive to highstand paralic and continental deposits, in places strongly influenced by local physiography, whereas forced regressive sediments are absent and probably accumulated further basinwards. The maximum flooding shoreline of the second cycle is translated ca 15 km basinward with respect to that of the first cycle, and this reflects a long‐term regressive trend mostly driven by regional uplift. The stratigraphic architecture of the Cutro Terrace deposits is the result of the interplay between regional uplift and high amplitude, Late Quaternary glacio‐eustatic changes. In particular, rapid transgressions, linked to glacio‐eustatic rises that outpaced regional uplift, favoured the accumulation of thin transgressive marine strata at the base of the two cycles. In contrast, the combined effect of glacio‐eustatic falls and regional uplift led to high‐magnitude forced regressions. The superposition of the two cycles was favoured by a relatively flat topography, which allowed relatively complete preservation of stratal geometries that record large shoreline displacements during transgression and regression. The absence of a palaeo‐coastal cliff at the inner margin of the terrace supports this interpretation. The Cutro Terrace provides a case study of sequence architecture developed in uplifting settings and controlled by high‐amplitude glacio‐eustatic changes. This case study also demonstrates how the interplay of relative sea‐level change, sediment supply and physiography may determine either the superposition of cycles forming a single terrace or the formation of a staircase o...

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Pleistocene coralline algal build-ups ( coralligène de plateau ) and associated bioclastic deposits in the sedimentary cover of Cutro marine terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)

Abstract: Carbonate build-ups mainly constructed by encrusting coralline red algae are currently developing on Mediterranean soft bottoms, at depths ranging from 20 m to 160 m.

Cited by 18 publications

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Late-Quaternary terraced marine deposits as tools for wide-scale correlation of unconformity-bounded units in the volcanic Aeolian archipelago (southern Italy)

Late-Quaternary terraced marine deposits as tools for wide-scale correlation of unconformity-bounded units in the volcanic Aeolian archipelago (southern Italy)

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

Sequence stratigraphy in the context of rapid regional uplift and high‐amplitude glacio‐eustatic changes: the Pleistocene Cutro Terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)

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