Superimposed Cycles of Composite Marine Terraces: The Example of Cutro Terrace (Calabria, Southern Italy)

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

“…These resemble the internal arrangement of composite terraces resulting from the interplay between crustal uplift and successive transgressions during a composite interglacial stage. An example is the Cutro composite terrace reported by Nalin et al (2007), which is interpreted as the result of the reiteration of three transgressions of the same amplitude during the interglacial MIS 7, acting on a rising landmass. The attached terrace successions in the study area were not generated by slower crustal uplift than the detached successions, because both occur within comparable elevation ranges.…”

“…Interpretation -This lithofacies reflects accretion of a beach sand body during progradation in an upper shoreface depositional environment (Walker and Plint, 1992;Hart and Plint, 1995;Reading and Collison, 1996;Massari and Parea, 1988;Nalin et al, 2007). Deposition of sands mainly occurs under the action of strong seaward directed currents, as indicated by prevalent foreset orientation normal to present shoreline.…”

Onshore to offshore correlation of regional unconformities in the Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary successions of the Calabrian Arc (central Mediterranean)

“…The ca. 100 m-scale glacio-eustatic changes related to the 100 kyr eccentricity cycle, accompanied by lower-rank sea-level variations related to the obliquity-and precession-driven periodicities, were concomitant with the uplift of Calabria since latest early Pleistocene, producing flights of marine terraces along both the Ionian and Tyrrhenian coasts (Dumas et al, 1982;Gliozzi, 1987;Carobene and Dai Pra, 1990;Miyauchi et al, 1994;Carobene, 2003;Cucci, 2004;Dumas and Raffy, 2004;Zecchin et al, 2004b;Nalin et al, 2007;Zecchin et al, 2009Zecchin et al, , 2010aZecchin et al, ,b, 2011b.…”

The impact of Late Quaternary glacio-eustasy and tectonics on sequence development: evidence from both uplifting and subsiding settings in Italy

“…They are linked to glacio‐eustatic changes (Zecchin et al. , 2004; Nalin et al. , 2007), which are correlatable with the deep‐marine stratigraphy based on the δ 18 O record tuned to the Milankovitch orbital parameters (e.g.…”