Thermoluminescence dating tests of Pleistocene sediments from uplifted marine shorelines along the southwest coastline of the Calabrian Peninsula (southern Italy)

Balescu, Sanda; Dumas, Bernard; Guérémy, Pierre; Lamothe, Michel; Lhénaff, René; Raffy, Jeannine

doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(96)00119-8

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“…In this area, the MIS 5.5 terrace deposits include rich Strombus bubonius assemblages, as in the case of Ravagnese and Bovetto sites, where deposits are found at elevations of 130e140 m (Gignoux, 1913;Bonfiglio, 1972), and Nocella, where they crop out at an elevation of about 175 m (Dumas et al, 1987). The age attribution of these deposits to the 125 ka high-stand has been confirmed by TL determinations (Balescu et al, 1997). Recent activity of the Armo fault is shown by raised Holocene beach rock sediments found at its footwall by Pirazzoli et al (1997), whose characteristics and age are discussed in detail in this paper.…”

Section: Geological Settingsupporting

confidence: 55%

Millstones as indicators of relative sea-level changes in northern Sicily and southern Calabria coastlines, Italy

Scicchitano

Presti

Spampinato

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Quaternary International

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a b s t r a c tNew data are presented for late Holocene relative sea-level changes in two coastal sites of Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy. Reconstructions are based on precise measurements of submerged archaeological remains that are valuable indicators of past sea-level position. The archaeological remains are millstone quarries carved on sandstone coastal rocks and nowadays partially submerged which, to the authors' knowledge, are used for the first time as sea-level markers. Millstones of similar typology are located on the coast of Capo d'Orlando (northern Sicily) and Capo dell'Armi (southern Calabria). When the archeologically-based sea-level position is compared with the shoreline elevation provided by geological markers (Holocene beachrock, Late Pleistocene marine terraces), a refined understanding of relative sea-level changes and rates of vertical tectonic movements for these coastline locations is gained.

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Millstones as indicators of relative sea-level changes in northern Sicily and southern Calabria coastlines, Italy

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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.…”

Section: Late Pleistocene Focusing On Mis 55mentioning

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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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“…In the Lev ant, it was re ported in Leb a non (Fleisch and Gigout, 1966;Fleisch and Sanlaville, 1967;Sanlaville, 1969Sanlaville, , 1978Fleisch et al, 1971), in North Haifa (Issar andKafri, 1972;Sivan et al, 1999), in Cy prus es pecially in Larnaca and west to Coral Bay (Poole et al, 1990). In Greece, the Sen e ga lese fauna com posed of Loripes lucinalis, Co nus testudinarius, Cantharrus viverratus and Stramonita haemastoma and in clud ing Persististrombus latus was sig naled in many lo cal i ties in bor der of the south coast of Crete (Keraudren et al, 2000) and in It aly (Hearty et al, 1986a, b;Balescu et al, 1997). It is pres ent in the iso to pic stage 5 terraces along the south ern Calabria (Dumas et al, 1988(Dumas et al, , 2002, in bor der of the Ionian coast and in Crotone Pen in sula (Nalin et al, 2012) as well as Sic ily (Gignoux, 1913;Antonioli et al, 198 Amel Chakroun and Dalila Zaghbib-Turki TAXA MT QRB HRG KN(a) ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS Sub strate/tier ing/mo bil ity/feed ing Neverita josephinia Risso, 1826 Sand/infaunal/slow-mov ing/car ni vore, pred a tor Naticarius stercusmuscarum (Gmelin, 1791) Sand or mud/infaunal/slow-mov ing/car ni vore, scav en ger Pa tella caerula Linnaeus, 1758 Hard/epifaunal/facultatively mo bile, at tached/her bi vore Pa tella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791 Hard/epifaunal/facultatively mo bile, at tached/her bi vore Pa tella vulgata Linnaeus, 1758 Hard/epifaunal/facultatively mo bile, at tached/her bi vore Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791) Sand/epifaunal/creep ing/her bi vore, om ni vore-grazer Rissoa membranacea (Ad ams, 1800) Mixed/epifaunal/mo bile/her bi vore, grazer Semicassis granulata undulata (Gmelin, 1791) Mixed/epifaunal/creep ing, grazer/predatoroy, car ni vore Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1758) Hard/epifaunal/creep ing, pred a tor/scav en ger, car ni vore Tarantinaea lignaria (Linnaeus, 1758) Hard/epifaunal/herbiers/car niv o rous.…”

Section: Persististrombus Latus Distributionmentioning

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Facies and fauna proxies used to reconstruct the MIS 5 and MIS 7 coastal environments in eastern Tunisia

Chakroun

Zaghbib-Turki

2016

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This study is based on the anal y sis of the sedimentology and the fos sil as sem blages of Pleis to cene de pos its in East ern Tu nisia. It uses dif fer ent fauna as sem blages to help in fer palaeoenvironments and in par tic u lar dis cusses the im por tance of the dis tri bu tion of Persististrombus latus, es pe cially as re gards MIS 5e de pos its around the Med i ter ra nean Ba sin. The stratigraphic suc ces sion has been di vided into two main units. The lower unit is quartz-rich. Its basal part con tains a ma rine fauna that in cludes well-pre served bi valves, gas tro pods, echinoids and cirripedes dom i nated by Acanthocardia, Cerastoderma, Parvicardium, Arca, Donax, Glycymeris, Loripes, Tellina and Cerithium. This fauna rep re sents a typ i cal as so ci ation/biocenosis typ i cally de vel oped in a shel tered bay, of mod er ate to low wave/cur rent ac tion and rapid post-mor tem burial. The up per unit is car bon ate-dom i nated. Its basal part also con tains a rich ma rine fauna that in cludes the ex tant trop i cal West Af ri can spe cies Persististrombus latus. The oc cur rence of Persististrombus latus in this unit com pared to its pres ence in the whole Med i ter ra nean ba sin in the Late Pleis to cene leads us to ques tion its im por tance in the in ter pre ta tion of cli mate warming dur ing the Late Pleis to cene, and to sug gest its At lan tic or i gin.Key words: MIS 5 and MIS 7, Tu ni sia, malacofauna, palaeo ec ol ogy, Persististrombus latus, palaeoclimate. INTRODUCTIONPleis to cene de pos its of the east ern coast of Tu ni sia cor re lative to ma rine iso tope stage (MIS) 5, MIS 7 and MIS 9 have been the sub ject of sev eral stud ies (Allemand-Mar tin, 1923, 1924Castany, 1954Castany, , 1955Castany, , 1956Barrot, 1972;Paskoff and Sanlaville, 1976, 1978, 1983Oueslati, 1980;Oueslati et al., 1982;Blanc, 1982;Bernat et al., 1985;Miller et al., 1986;Mahmoudi, 1986Mahmoudi, , 1988Oueslati, 1994; Jedoui, 2000; Jedoui et al., 2001 Jedoui et al., , 2002Jedoui et al., , 2003Bouaziz et al., 2003;Le Guern, 2005;Chakroun et al., 2005Chakroun et al., , 2009a Chakroun et al., , b, 2016Chakroun, 2006;Mauz et al., 2009;Mejri et al., 2012). This suc ces sion, con tain ing a ma rine fauna, has been doc u mented as transgressive. In eastern Tu ni sia, it is un der lain by a ma jor un con formity. It can di rectly over lie con ti nen tal as well as ma rine Mio cene de pos its or the ma rine Plio cene, or even con ti nen tal Villafranchian de pos its.In the pres ent work we de tail the fos sil con tent of the MIS 5e and MIS 7 de pos its out crop ping along the Cap Bon Pen in sula and far ther to wards the south in the Hergla area. The fau nal species dis tri bu tion and taphonomy are an a lysed. The main eco log ical char ac ter is tics of the dif fer ent in ver te brate spe cies com mu nities help to re con struct their depositional en vi ron ments or biotopes de vel oped along the east ern coast of Tu ni sia. MATERIAL AND METHODSAlong the east ern Tu ni sian coast, from the Cap Bon to Hergla ar eas, the P...

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Thermoluminescence dating tests of Pleistocene sediments from uplifted marine shorelines along the southwest coastline of the Calabrian Peninsula (southern Italy)

Cited by 54 publications

References 26 publications

Millstones as indicators of relative sea-level changes in northern Sicily and southern Calabria coastlines, Italy

Millstones as indicators of relative sea-level changes in northern Sicily and southern Calabria coastlines, Italy

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

Facies and fauna proxies used to reconstruct the MIS 5 and MIS 7 coastal environments in eastern Tunisia

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