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New Insights in the Stratigraphic Setting of Mediterranean Continental Shelves and Slopes

A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 1881

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Gemma Aiello

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CNR ISMAR Sezione Secondaria di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
Interests: seismic stratigraphy; sedimentology; marine geology and geophysics; stratigraphic geology; sedimentary geology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to contribute to a Special Volume addressed at studying the stratigraphic setting of Mediterranean continental shelves and slopes through the integration of different geological data and methodologies, including seismic stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, tephrostratigraphy, and facies analysis and sedimentology. Although Mediterranean shelves and slopes have been deeply studied, I am firmly convinced that more geological data will be available through integrated stratigraphic methodologies if shown in this volume. Both contributions addressed to marine geology and field geological data are welcome.

Dr. Gemma Aiello
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • mediterranean continental shelves and slopes
  • seismic stratigraphy
  • basin analysis
  • tephrostratigraphy
  • facies analysis
  • sedimentology
  • chemostratigraphy
  • palaeo-oceanography

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Quaternary Lowstand Prograding Wedges of the Salento Continental Shelf (Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy): Architectural Stacking Patterns and the Control of Glacio-Eustatic Sea Level Fluctuations and Foreland Tectonic Uplift
by Gemma Aiello
Geosciences 2023, 13(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13010004 - 22 Dec 2022
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The performance of both the tectonic uplift and of the 4th-order glacial eustatic sea level fluctuations in controlling the stratigraphic architecture of Quaternary lowstand prograding wedges of the Salento continental shelf (Southern Adriatic sea, Italy) during a time interval spanning from the Middle [...] Read more.
The performance of both the tectonic uplift and of the 4th-order glacial eustatic sea level fluctuations in controlling the stratigraphic architecture of Quaternary lowstand prograding wedges of the Salento continental shelf (Southern Adriatic sea, Italy) during a time interval spanning from the Middle Pleistocene to the Holocene has been pointed out through the interpretation of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles and their correlation to the curves of the isotopic stratigraphy. Three main transgressive surfaces of erosion (RS1, RS2 and RS3) punctuate the stratigraphic architecture of the Salento continental shelf, separating Quaternary lowstand prograding wedges between them. All along the Middle Pleistocene, increasing the tectonic uplift of the Puglia offshore, combining with 4th-order glacio-eustatic variations, have dealt with the pattern of a broad forced regression prograding wedge, favoring a platform progradation of approximately 15 km. The architectural stacking patterns of the overlying Late Pleistocene and Holocene prograding wedges are controlled by 4th-order glacio-eustatic sea level changes, allowing for the formation of incomplete depositional sequences. In this period, the eustatic signature overcomes the tectonic mark, implying a decline in the uplift of the Apulian foreland in the course of the final 250 ky. Full article
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