Late Quaternary paleo sea level geomorphological markers of opposite vertical movements at Salina volcanic island (Aeolian Arc)

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 2377-2395 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Lucchi ◽  
A. Ricchi ◽  
C. Romagnoli ◽  
D. Casalbore ◽  
R. Quartau
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Volcanic Island ◽  
Vertical Movements ◽  
Aeolian Arc

Late Quaternary relative sea-level changes and vertical movements at Lipari (Aeolian Islands)

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 459-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Calanchi ◽  
F. Lucchi ◽  
P. A. Pirazzoli ◽  
C. Romagnoli ◽  
C. A. Tranne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Vertical Movements ◽  
Aeolian Islands

Uplifted marine terraces of Cephalonia island, Western Greece. Insights into the late Quaternary geomorphic evolution of the area.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Tsanakas ◽  
Giannis Saitis ◽  
Niki Evelpidou ◽  
Efthimios Karymbalis ◽  
Anna Karkani
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Small Region ◽  
Tectonic Activity ◽  
Vertical Movements ◽  
Main Island ◽  
Geomorphic Evolution ◽  
North West ◽  
Marine Terraces ◽  
Western Greece

<p>Uplifted marine terraces act as a continuous record of eustatic changes in tectonically active coastal areas and can provide significant insight into their late Quaternary geomorphic evolution. Cephalonia island, located at the north-west edge of the Hellenic Arc, is a tectonically and seismically highly active area in the Ionian Sea, western Greece, where collision, subduction and transformation take place in a relatively small region. Pleistocene eustatic sea level fluctuations and the long-term vertical movements of the island, have left their imprint on the southern part of the island in the form of uplifted marine terraces. In the present study we aim to identify and map in detail the uplifted marine terraces, applying Digital Elevation Model analysis, utilizing GIS techniques and extensive fieldwork. A GIS spatial geodatabase has been organized and a GIS-based Automatic Landform Analysis was implemented for the identification and mapping of the inner edge of the uplifted marine terraces. Extensive field work and UAV imagery, enabled us to validate the results of the DEM analysis and to improve the accuracy of the position of the inner edges. A sequence of eight marine terraces has been revealed in the Paliki Peninsula ranging in elevation between 2-16 m above sea level for the lowest terrace and 300-440 m asl for the higher one. In the southern part of the main island 9 marine terraces have been identified and mapped at elevations ranging from 1-2 m for the lower one up to 142-170 m above sea level for the higher one respectively. The majority of the terraces is curved on erodible Pliocene and Pleistocene formations and only the lower ones appear to be well preserved. Their lateral morphological continuity is interrupted by the fluvial activity of a large number of ephemeral streams. The non-uniform occurrence of marine terraces at different elevations in Paliki peninsula and the southern part of the main island implies a complex tectonic activity of the island probably attributed to different tectonic blocks.</p>

LATE QUATERNARY SEA-LEVEL HIGHSTANDS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC US COASTAL PLAIN AND SUB-ORBITAL VARIABILITY WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR ICE SHEET SENSITIVITY

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Poirier ◽  
◽  
Thomas M. Cronin ◽  
Thomas M. Cronin ◽  
Miriam E. Katz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Ice Sheet

A global sea-level curve for the late Quaternary: the impossible dream?

1995 ◽  
Vol 125 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Jean Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Level Curve ◽  
Global Sea Level

scholarly journals Molluscan aminostratigraphy of the US Mid-Atlantic Quaternary coastal system: Implications for onshore-offshore correlation, paleochannel and barrier island evolution, and local late Quaternary sea-level history

2021 ◽  
pp. 101177
Author(s):  
John F. Wehmiller ◽  
Laura L. Brothers ◽  
Kelvin W. Ramsey ◽  
David S. Foster ◽  
C.R. Mattheus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Barrier Island ◽  
Coastal System ◽  
Island Evolution ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Late Quaternary Landscape Dynamics at the La Spezia Gulf (NW Italy): A Multi-Proxy Approach Reveals Environmental Variability within a Rocky Embayment

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 427
Author(s):  
Veronica Rossi ◽  
Alessandro Amorosi ◽  
Marco Marchesini ◽  
Silvia Marvelli ◽  
Andrea Cocchianella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Environmental Variability ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Landscape Dynamics ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Core Depth ◽  
Coastal Bay ◽  
Nw Italy ◽  
Global Sea Level ◽  
Geomorphological Features

The Gulf of La Spezia (GLS) in Northwest Italy is a rocky embayment with low fluvial influence facing the Mediterranean Sea. Past landscape dynamics were investigated through a multi-proxy, facies-based analysis down to a core depth of 30 m. The integration of quantitative ostracod, foraminifera, and pollen analyses, supported by radiocarbon ages, proved to be a powerful tool to unravel the late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental evolution and its forcing factors. The complex interplay between relative sea-level (RSL), climatic changes, and geomorphological features of the embayment drove four main evolution phases. A barrier–lagoon system developed in response to the rising RSL of the Late Pleistocene (likely the Last Interglacial). The establishment of glacial conditions then promoted the development of an alluvial environment, with generalised erosion of the underlying succession and subsequent accumulation of fluvial strata. The Holocene transgression (dated ca. 9000 cal year BP) caused GLS inundation and the formation of a low-confined lagoon basin, which rapidly turned into a coastal bay from ca. 8000 cal year BP onwards. This latter environmental change occurred in response to the last Holocene stage of global sea-level acceleration, which submerged a morphological relief currently forming a drowned barrier-island complex in the embayment.

scholarly journals Late Quaternary uplift along the North America-Caribbean plate boundary: Evidence from the sea level record of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

2017 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 54-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Muhs ◽  
Eugene S. Schweig ◽  
Kathleen R. Simmons ◽  
Robert B. Halley
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Caribbean Plate ◽  
The North ◽  
Guantanamo Bay

Late Quaternary sea-level and tectonic changes in northeast Fiji

2002 ◽  
Vol 187 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 299-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick D Nunn ◽  
Cliff Ollier ◽  
Geoffrey Hope ◽  
Peter Rodda ◽  
Akio Omura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Quaternary

The impact of glaciation, river-discharge and sea-level change on Late Quaternary environments in the southwestern Kara Sea

2000 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid Polyak ◽  
Mikhail Levitan ◽  
Valery Gataullin ◽  
Tatiana Khusid ◽  
Valery Mikhailov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
River Discharge ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Kara Sea ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Sea Level
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