Deep coral growth in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview

M Taviani, A Freiwald, H Zibrowius - Cold-water corals and ecosystems, 2005 - Springer
The Mediterranean basin represents an excellent biological archive of past and modern
deep coral growth whose study may help to understand taxonomic, biogeographic …

Between Scylla and Charybdis (part 1): the sedimentary dynamics of the modern Messina Strait (central Mediterranean) as analogue to interpret the past

SG Longhitano - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The present paper reviews a number of geophysical and geological datasets acquired in
recent and less recent times on the modern Messina Strait, aiming at reconstructing the …

Three‐dimensional to two‐dimensional cross‐strata transition in the lower Pleistocene Catanzaro tidal strait transgressive succession (southern Italy)

SG Longhitano, D Chiarella, F Muto - Sedimentology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sandstone tidal cross‐strata are the predominant sedimentary feature of strait‐fill
stratigraphic successions. However, although widely described in numerous studies, tidal …

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 …

The record of tidal cycles in mixed silici–bioclastic deposits: examples from small Plio–Pleistocene peripheral basins of the microtidal Central Mediterranean Sea

SG Longhitano - Sedimentology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene–Pleistocene peripheral marine basins of the Mediterranean Sea in
southern Italy, from Basilicata and western Calabria to northern and eastern Sicily, represent …

Some aspects of the recent tectonics in the Strait of Messina, Italy

C Montenat, P Barrier, PO d'Estevou - Tectonophysics, 1991 - Elsevier
During Pliocene and pléistocène times, the Strait of Messina was subjected to extensional
tectonism, which was contemporaneous with marine sedimentary processes. Various …

High-resolution morpho-bathymetric imaging of the Messina Strait (Southern Italy). New insights on the 1908 earthquake and tsunami

D Ridente, E Martorelli, A Bosman, FL Chiocci - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The 28 December, 1908 Reggio Calabria and Messina earthquake (named after
the two most damaged cities on the coasts of Messina Strait) was one of the strongest (MW …

Statistical analysis of bed-thickness variation in a Tortonian succession of biocalcarenitic tidal dunes, Amantea Basin, Calabria, southern Italy

SG Longhitano, W Nemec - Sedimentary Geology, 2005 - Elsevier
The Tortonian biocalcarenitic succession in Amantea Basin was deposited in a ramp setting
of a peri-Tyrrhenian shelf embayment, whose northern part was linked with the southern part …

Anatomy of a mixed bioclastic–siliciclastic regressive tidal sand ridge: Facies‐based case study from the lower Pleistocene Siderno Strait, southern Italy

SG Longhitano, VM Rossi, D Chiarella… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sand ridges, a common feature of modern open shelves, reflect persistent currents and
sediment availability under recent transgressive conditions. They represent the largest …

Sedimentology and facies analysis of ancient sand ridges: Jurassic Rogn Formation, Trøndelag Platform, offshore Norway

D Chiarella, SG Longhitano, W Mosdell… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sand ridges represent a common type of sedimentary bedform of modern shelves seldom
used as analogues to interpret isolated marine sandbodies recognised in the subsurface …