Raised Holocene paleo-shorelines along the Capo Schisò coast, Taormina: New evidence of recent co-seismic deformation in northeastern Sicily (Italy)
| Autor: | Cecilia Rita Spampinato, Giovanni Scicchitano, Luigi Ferranti, Carmelo Monaco |
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| Přispěvatelé: | C. R., Spampinato, G., Scicchitano, Ferranti, Luigi, C., Monaco |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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SEISMOGENIC BELT
Outcrop law.invention Headland Paleontology sea level markers MARKERS law RATES Radiocarbon dating Holocene Earth-Surface Processes Shore Beachrock geography geography.geographical_feature_category QUATERNARY UPLIFT coseismic deformation Tectonics Geophysics Volcano SEA-LEVEL CHANGE CALABRIAN ARC Geology |
| Popis: | Detailed mapping of geomorphological, biological and archaeological sea-level markers around the Capo Schiso volcanic headland, a few kilometers south of Taormina, north-eastern Sicily, has documented the occurrence of three Holocene paleo-shorelines raised at different altitudes. The uppermost shoreline (PS1) is represented by a fossiliferous beach deposit that is heavily eroded and only few small sections, at elevations ranging between similar to 3 and similar to 5 m above the present sea-level, are visible. The middle shoreline (PS2) was found at a maximum altitude of similar to 3 m and is represented by algal rims, remnants of barnacle bands and vermetid concretions, and by a fossiliferous beach deposit. The lowermost shoreline (PS3) includes remnants of algal rims, vermetid concretions, fossil barnacle bands and a beachrock, and reaches an elevation of 1.60-1.80 m. New radiocarbon dating results, integrated with published ages from nearby paleo-shoreline outcrops, constrains for the Taormina region an average uplift rate of 1.7-1.8 mm/yr in the last 5 ka, and the occurrence of three co-seismic uplift events at 4.4-3.9 ka, 2.1-1.8 ka and |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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