Unraveling tectonic and climatic controls on synorogenic growth strata (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Gypsum caves as indicators of climate-driven river incision and aggradation in a rapidly uplifting region

“…(Gunderson et al, 2014). Over shorter time scales, entrenchment and aggradation depend on stream discharge (Q w ) and the relative proportion of bedload (Q s ) (e.g., Bull, 1979;Hancock et al, 1998;Wegmann and Pazzaglia, 2009) (Fig.…”

“…This actively growing mountain front has experienced an average uplift rate of around 1 mm yr -1 since ~150 kyr B.P., with a three-to five-fold lower rate during the middle Pleistocene (Cyr and Granger, 2008;Picotti and Pazzaglia, 2008). Regional studies on river terraces have allowed the reconstruction of phases of incision and aggradation and their links to local tectonics, climate, and vegetation changes in the catchment areas, and of the extent of anthropogenic influences (Gunderson et al, 2014;Picotti et al, 2009;Ponza et al, 2010;Wegmann and Pazzaglia, 2009;Wilson et al, 2009). Large epigenic caves have been carved in several of these catchments, with some hosting active channels and preserving a series of vertically stacked cave levels.…”

Biodetrital carbonates on the Adriatic continental shelf imprinted by oxidation of seeping hydrocarbons

“…Kidwell, 1982;Abbott, 1998;Del Río et al, 2001;Roveri and Taviani, 2003), might result in the formation of mudmounds favored by hydrocarbon seepage. The recently discovered Enza River Pleistocene section in the Italian northern Apennines (Gunderson et al, 2014;Oppo et al, this volume;Viola et al, this volume) contains various hydrocarbon-imprinted carbonates including d 13 Cdepleted dark micritic limestone crusts and lensoids bored by Coralliophaga bivalves that are of similar size like the Bonaccia slabs and formed in a similar shelfal situation.…”

Authigenic carbonate formation and its impact on the biomarker inventory at hydrocarbon seeps – A case study from the Holocene Black Sea and the Plio-Pleistocene Northern Apennines (Italy)

“…This formation crops out along the Enza River bed near San Polo d'Enza, Reggio Emilia (geographic coordinates: 44 37.7875N and 10 24.9015E: Gunderson et al, 2014; see also Oppo et al, in this volume and Viola et al, in this volume). One additional sample was taken from San Lorenzo in Collina (San Lorenzo hereafter; sample code SLO2).…”