Morpho-sedimentary setting and evolution of Marettimo Valley (Egadi Islands, Sicily) during middle-late Quaternary: interaction between sea level changes and oceanographic circulation |
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| Agate M., Tamburrino S., Sulli A., Placenti F., Sprovieri M., Lo Iacono C., Passaro S. |
- Abstract:
- We present morphological and stratigraphic results coming from surveys acquired in a NNW-SSE trending submarine depression (Marettimo Valley) located in the Egadi Islands (western Sicily offshore). In this area the seafloor is characterized by both depositional and erosional features generated under a variety of sedimentary processes. We identified two seismic facies units that are correlatable to: A) the progradation of shallow water (coastal to offshore) deposits during forced-regression sedimentary process, and B) contourite drifts emplaced by geostrophic currents through the Marettimo Valley. This unusual association of very shallow water contourites and shelf margin deposits originates, during middle-late Pleistocene glacio-eustatic cycles, from enhanced sedimentary dynamics establishing mutual interaction between progradational growth of the margin and bottom current deposition.
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC19
- Event name:
- 1st IMEKO TC19 Workshop on Metrology for the Sea
- Title:
"Learning to measure sea health parameters", Special session “Metrology traceability for oceanic parameters” together with TC8 and TC12
- Place:
- Naples, ITALY
- Time:
- 11 October 2017 - 13 October 2017