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TI Anatomy of a compound delta from the post-glacial transgressive record in the Adriatic Sea
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AF PELLEGRINI, Claudio
   MASELLI, Vittorio
   CATTANEO, Antonio
   PIVA, Andrea
   CEREGATO, Alessandro
   TRINCARDI, Fabio
AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:3;4:4;5:1;6:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-REM-GM-LES;4:;5:;6:;
C1 CNR, ISMRA, I-40129 Bologna, Italy.
   Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Sci Terra & Geol Ambientali, I-40126 Bologna, Italy.
   IFREMER, Geosci Marines Ctr Brest, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Sedimentol Petrog & Stratig Dept, Eni Explorat & Prod Div, I-20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy.
C2 ISMAR, ITALY
   UNIV BOLOGNA, ITALY
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   ENI, ITALY
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GM-LES
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-europe
IF 2.503
TC 56
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00250/36158/34714.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Compound delta;Mediterranean Sea;Younger Dryas;Subaqueous clinoform;Transgressive deposits
AB On the Mediterranean continental shelves the post-glacial transgressive succession is a complex picture composed by seaward progradations, related to sea level stillstands and/or increased sediment supply to the coasts, and minor flooding surfaces, associated to phases of enhanced rates of sea level rise. Among Late Pleistocene examples, major mid-shelf progradations have been related to the short-term climatic reversal of the Younger Dryas event, a period during which the combination of increased sediment supply from rivers and reduced rates of sea level rise promoted the formation of progradations up to tens-meter thick. While the documentation of coastal and subaqueous progradations recording the Younger Dryas interval are widely reported in the literature, the model of compound progradation within transgressive deposits is not proposed so far. Here we present the documentation of a deltaic system where both delta front sands and related fine-grained subaqueous progradations (prodeltaic to shallow marine) have been preserved. The Paleo Gargano Compound Delta (PGCD) formed offshore the modern Gargano Promontory (southern Adriatic Sea), and is composed by a coastal coarse-grained delta of reduced thickness and a muddy subaqueous clinoform, up to 30 meters thick. The PGCD, probably the first worldwide documentation of a compound delta within the transgressive record, provides the opportunity to investigate the processes controlling the formation of a compound delta system during an overall sea level rise and the factors that allowed its preservation. The finding of the PGCD provides the opportunity of a comparison with modern worldwide compound systems.
PY 2015
PD APR
SO Marine Geology
SN 0025-3227
PU Elsevier Science Bv
VL 362
UT 000351808300004
BP 43
EP 59
DI 10.1016/j.margeo.2015.01.010
ID 36158
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