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| Gauchery, Tugdual; Rovere, Marzia; Pellegrini, Claudio; Cattaneo, Antonio; Campiani, Elisabetta; Trincardi, Fabio. |
| This study presents novel findings on the Pliocene and Quaternary evolution of the Gela Basin (Strait of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea), an area recording the interaction between tectonics, climate change at a Milankovitch and sub-Milankovitch timescales, and dynamic water masses exchange between the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea. The calibration of seismic profiles with exploration boreholes allowed for the refining the chronostratigraphic framework of the Gela Basin and highlighted the main phases of margin growth. Since the Pliocene, the margin has recorded the deposition of 100 m high shelf-edge clinothems, accompanied by sediment drifts on the slope and mass-transport deposits (MTDs), possibly triggered by seismic activity. Through the... |
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Palavras-chave: Stratigraphy; Middle Pleistocene Transition; Plio-Quaternary; Contourites; Clinothems; Mass-transport deposits; Continental margin evolution; Glacio-eustatic variations. |
| Ano: 2021 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00655/76739/77888.pdf |
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