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TI Coastal dynamics under conditions of rapid sea-level rise: Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene evolution of barrier-lagoon systems on the northern Adriatic shelf (Italy)
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AF STORMS, J
   WELTJE, G
   TERRA, G
   CATTANEO, Antonio
   TRINCARDI, F
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;5:4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LES;5:;
C1 Delft Univ Technol, Fac Civil Engn & Geosci, Sect Appl Geol, NL-2600 GA Delft, Netherlands.
   Royal Netherlands Inst Sea Res NIOZ, Dept Phys, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, Netherlands.
   IFREMER, Ctr Brest, Dept Geosci Marines, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   CNR, ISMAR, I-40129 Bologna, Italy.
C2 UNIV DELFT, NETHERLANDS
   INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   CNR, ITALY
SI BREST
SE PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LES
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-europe
IF 3.693
TC 106
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4473.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;progressive sorting;forward modelling;tidal amplification;barrier lagoon system;transgression;sea level rise
AB This multidisciplinary case study of two preserved barrier systems combined the analysis of radiocarbon datings, grain-size distributions, high-resolution seismics, and shelf bathymetry with reconstructions of palaeo-environmental conditions (tides, waves, sea-level change) and forward modelling of barrier-lagoon systems, to provide an integrated view of the coastal transgressive evolution of a large sector of the northern Adriatic shelf between 15 and 8 ka BR Palaeo-environmental reconstructions point to increased tidal amplitude, low-energy wave climate and high rates of sea-level rise (up to 60 mm/a) during the formation of the oldest preserved barrier system (similar to 90 m water depth; 14.3 cal ka BP). A younger barrier system (42 m water depth; 10.5 cal ka BP) formed under conditions of lower tidal amplitude, higher wave energy and a lower rate of sea-level rise (10mm/a).   Forward modelling suggests that the probability of barrier-island overstepping during transgression is inversely proportional to tidal amplitude, if all other factors are assumed equal. The oldest barrier-lagoon system developed under conditions of large tidal amplitude, which permitted rapid transgression. However, this system apparently failed to keep up with the anomalously high rate of sea-level rise resulting from melt-water pulse 1A. The youngest barrier system appears to have drowned in place due to antecedent topography. As the barrier system transgressed over an ancient Pleistocene alluvial plain, the rapid increase in backbarrier accommodation caused an abrupt disequilibrium between shoreface and backbarrier sedimentation, which led to barrier overstepping. Although BarSim modelling indicates that tidal deposition can reduce the probability of barrier overstepping, there are other driving mechanisms (in our case extremely rapid sea-level rise and antecedent topography), which are more determinative in explaining the transgressive coastal evolution of barrier-lagoon systems in the northern Adriatic Sea.   Grain-size analysis of shoreface deposits sampled above the transgressive ravinement surface across the northern Adriatic shelf indicate a distinct relation between the sediment grain size and the rate of sea-level rise during deposition, which implies that progressive sorting must have been highly effective. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY 2008
PD JUL
SO Quaternary Science Reviews
SN 0277-3791
PU Elsevier
VL 27
IS 11-12
UT 000257297800002
BP 1107
EP 1123
DI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.009
ID 4473
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