The Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Crotone Basin (southern Italy): interplay between sedimentation, tectonics and eustasy in the frame of Calabrian Arc migration

M Zecchin, M Caffau, D Civile, S Critelli… - Earth-Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Crotone Basin is the exposed part of a larger Neogene forearc basin developed in the
Ionian Sea in the frame of the SE-ward migration of the Calabrian Arc, which led to the …

Markers of the last interglacial sea-level high stand along the coast of Italy: tectonic implications

L Ferranti, F Antonioli, B Mauz, A Amorosi… - Quaternary …, 2006 - Elsevier
A compilation of the Marine Isotope Substage (MIS) 5.5 high stand (∼ 125Ka) sites
spanning the coastline of Italy allows a picture of the vertical displacement pattern affecting …

Late Pleistocene to Holocene record of changing uplift rates in southern Calabria and northeastern Sicily (southern Italy, Central Mediterranean Sea)

F Antonioli, L Ferranti, K Lambeck, S Kershaw… - Tectonophysics, 2006 - Elsevier
A combination of published and new radiometric dates on uplifted Holocene fossil beaches
from northeastern Sicily and southern Calabria (southern Italy) is compared with the altitude …

Topography of the Calabria subduction zone (southern Italy): Clues for the origin of Mt. Etna

C Faccenna, P Molin, B Orecchio, V Olivetti… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Calabria represents an ideal site to analyze the topography of a subduction zone as it is
located on top of a narrow active Wadati‐Benioff zone and shows evidence of rapid uplift …

The inventory and quantitative assessment of geodiversity as strategic tools for promoting sustainable geoconservation and geo-education in the Peloritani Mountains …

R Somma - Education Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Most methods used for geoheritage inventories do not consider the quantitative assessment
of the geodiversity indicators; consequently, it can happen that some geosites are wrongly …

Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the Western Mediterranean

C Cerrone, M Vacchi, A Fontana… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
We describe a database of Last Interglacial (Marine Isotopic Stage 5) sea-level proxies for
the Western Mediterranean region. The database was compiled reviewing the information …

Elevation of the last interglacial highstand in Sicily (Italy): a benchmark of coastal tectonics

F Antonioli, S Kershaw, P Renda, D Rust… - Quaternary …, 2006 - Elsevier
Well-preserved MIS 5.5 terraces in Sicily are identified primarily by the index fossil Strombus
bubonius, and dated by amino acid racemization (AAR), electron spin resonance (ESR) …

Active faulting and seismicity along the Siculo–Calabrian Rift Zone (southern Italy)

S Catalano, G De Guidi, C Monaco, G Tortorici… - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
Southern Italy is dominated by extensional tectonics that in the Calabrian arc and Eastern
Sicily produced the development of the Siculo–Calabrian Rift Zone (SCRZ). This zone is …

Exploiting Maximum Entropy method and ASTER data for assessing debris flow and debris slide susceptibility for the Giampilieri catchment (north‐eastern Sicily, Italy)

L Lombardo, F Bachofer, M Cama… - Earth Surface …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims at evaluating the performance of the Maximum Entropy method in assessing
landslide susceptibility, exploiting topographic and multispectral remote sensing predictors …

Tidal signatures in Neogene to Quaternary mixed deposits of southern Italy straits and bays

SG Longhitano, D Chiarella, A Di Stefano… - Sedimentary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Some of the Neogene to Quaternary sedimentary successions cropping out in the southern
Italy orogenic belt exhibit distinct stratigraphic intervals of mixed, silici-bioclastic arenites …