The age of Late Pleistocene shorelines and tectonic activity of Taranto area, Southern Italy

Belluomini, G.; Caldara, Massimo; Casini, C.; Cerasoli, M.; Manfra, Luigia; Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe; Palmentola, G.; Sansò, Paolo; Tuccimei, Paola; Vesica, Pierluigi

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“…In fact, if the area was affected by uplift, a staircase of shore platforms would have developed, and the higher the uplift rate, the higher the elevation difference between successive terraces would be (Pirazzoli, 1996). A good example of this comes from the Taranto Gulf coast where a staircase of last interglacial marine terraces is clearly evident along a coastal tract that is affected by an uplift rate in excess of 0.2 m/ka (Belluomini et al, 2002). In the studied area, the same coastal landscape architecture is realized by LowerMiddle Pleistocene shore platforms that are arranged in a staircase stretching between 90 m above and present sea level.…”

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“…Uplift rates of the Apulia region have been estimated by means of the elevation of the marine terrace related to the maximum pick of last interglacial (MIS 5.5 = marine isotope substage 5.5) (Cosentino and Gliozzi, 1988;Dai Pra and Hearty, 1988;Hearty and Dai Pra, 1992;Westaway, 1993;Bordoni and Valensise, 1998;Belluomini et al, 2002). Along the Ionian coast, this terrace is marked by a distinctive faunal assemblage containing the index fossil Strombus bubonius Lmk.…”

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

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

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“…In particular, the age of sample MM4/6 (98 ± 17 ka BP) and its location, about 9 m above the C. caespitosa layer, allows us to attribute the latter to MIS 5.5, in analogy to other MIS 5.5 deposits in the Apulia región, rich in C. caespitosa (Belluomini et al, 2002).…”

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“…5): no evidence for land emersión between these substages has been found in the área. During MIS 5.2, there was Antonioli et al (1999), Nisi et al (2003) Esposito et al (2003) Brancaccio et al (1978) Romano et al (1994) Belluomini et al (2002) Dai Pra and Hearty (1988) Caldara (1986) Gliozzi (1987, Zecchin et al (2004) Balescu et al (1997), Dai Pra et al (1993 Ulzega and Hearty (1986), Hearty (1986) Ulzega and Hearty (1986), Hearty (1986) Hearty ( This pattern, with two depositional phases, the first referable to MIS 5.5-5.3 and the second to MIS 5.1, is in agreement with that reported by Belluomini et al (2002) for the MIS 5 deposits of the Taranto área.…”

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Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

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Caldara

Torres³

et al. 2010

Sedimentary Geology

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The geologic study of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Apulia región, southern Italy) is extremely difficult due to the scarcity of outcrops and fauna that could be used for dating. The survey inprogressof the 1:50,000 scale geological sheetno. 409 "Zapponeta" (including the coastal zone of the Apulian Tavoliere) has prompted us to tackle this problem by using a large set of borehole data and the AAR dating method applied to ostracod shells, which are capable of colonizing all types of environment as long as there is water. This alternative approach has allowed us to recognise nine stratigraphic units or synthems and, for the first time in this área, to date them, and to find a correlation between them and the cycles of sea level variation. The recognised stratigraphic units are: the Coppa Nevigata sands (NEA; middle Pleistocene: MIS 17-16), argíüe subappennine unit (ASP; middle Pleistocene: MIS 15-13), the Coppa Nevigata synthem (NVI; middle Pleistocene: MIS 11), the Arriendóla subsynthem (MLMi; middle Pleistocene: MIS 11), an undifferentiated continental unit (UCI; middle Pleistocene: MIS 8-7), the Foggia synthem (TGF; middlelate Pleistocene: MIS 6), the Carapelle and Cervaro streams synthem (RPL; late Pleistocene: MIS 5-3), and the Inacquata farm synthem (NAQ; Holocene). Within the RPL unit, a buried Cladocora caespitosa bioherm referable to MIS 5.5, lacking in warm fauna, and in which the coral is embedded in clay has been found in some boreholes. This is the first finding of Tyrrhenian deposits with C. caespitosa along the Italian Adriatic coast; the presence of this coral in clayey sediments, a very uncommon occurrence, strengthens the hypothesis that the major fossil reefs grew in coastal waters that were characterised by alluvial inputs of fine sediments, higher turbidity, and higher temperature than today. In addition, on the basis of the current evidence, some consideration about the fauna of the MIS 5.5 layer allows us to hypothesise that the Adriatic Sea underwent a more modérate warming compared to that of the Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas. Instead, the finding in the NVI unit of a tropical lagoonal deposit with stromatolites referred to MIS 11 proves that the warming in this stage was undoubtedly greater than that of MIS 5.5. The MM4 borehole, which goes through the MIS 5 layers of the RPL unit, made it possible to recognise two marine phases during MIS 5: the first is referable to the MIS 5.5-5.3 interval, and the second to MIS 5.1. MIS 5.2 is marked by land emersión, whereas no evidence of land emersión between MIS 5.5 and 5.3 has been found. Also for the first time in this área, uplifting and subsiding áreas have been recognised and the vertical movements assessed. In general, the data suggest that the Garganic Apulian foreland and the Amendola highland experienced an uplift, while the central-southern part of the study área, belonging to the Apulian Tavoliere plain, suffered a subsidence with rates increasing from north-northwest to south-southeast. In particular, the finding of the MIS 5.5 bu...

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“…2). The sample site, 'Santa Teresiola' (ST), is a fossil bank located on a raised marine terrace 12 m above mean sea-level (Dai Pra and Stearns 1977;Hearty and Dai Pra 1992;Belluomini et al 2002). The bank is formed by numerous, contiguous colonies of coral embedded in a sandy matrix up to 1 m high covering a surface of nearly 0.6 km 2 .…”

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Growth of Mediterranean reef of Cladocora caespitosa (L.) in the Late Quaternary and climate inferences

Peirano

Kružić

Mastronuzzi

2009

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A sclerochronological analysis was performed on Cladocora caespitosa corals from Late Pleistocene terraces near Taranto (Apulia, Italy) to reconstruct the main palaeoenvironmental conditions at the time of their growth. The fossil corallites were sampled in the Santa Teresiola uplifted bank or 'open frame reef' attributed to the Last Interglacial Period. The typical, annual growth pattern of the temperate coral with two alternate high-and low-density bands allowed the reconstruction of two multidecadal growth curves of 61 and 95 years. Trend analysis showed oscillations in annual growth rates similar to those observed in recent, living colonies sampled along a north-south latitudinal transect around the Italian and Croatian coasts as far as Tunisia. The mean growth rate of the fossil reef (4.2 § 2 mm year ¡1 ) is comparable to those measured on colonies living in the coldest part of the Mediterranean Sea. The comparison with data from living Croatian banks shows how fossil C. caespitosa lived in a semi-enclosed environment characterized by seasonal inputs of fresh, cold water. The greatest variations in decadal growth rates of the fossil colonies support the hypothesis of larger amplitude of the seasonal cycles in the past. The death of the fossil bank was probably due to a sudden alluvial input that suVocated the reef with a great amount of mud. Another possible cause of the death of the bank was a prolonged increase in summer temperatures that caused colony mortality and enhanced algal colonization.

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The age of Late Pleistocene shorelines and tectonic activity of Taranto area, Southern Italy

Cited by 55 publications

References 35 publications

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

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

Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

Growth of Mediterranean reef of Cladocora caespitosa (L.) in the Late Quaternary and climate inferences

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