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Long-term geomorphological evolution of the axial zone of the Campania-Lucania Apennine, southern Italy: a review

In: Geologica Carpathica, vol. 68, no. 1
Marcello Schiattarella - Salvatore Ivo Giano - Dario Gioia

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Year, pages: 2017, 57 - 67
Language: eng
Keywords:
Southern Apennines, uplift and erosion rates, regional morphotectonics, Quaternary landscape evolution
About article:
Uplift and erosion rates have been calculated for a large sector of the Campania-Lucania Apennine and Calabrian arc, Italy, using both geomorphological observations (elevations, ages and arrangement of depositional and erosional land surfaces and other morphotectonic markers) and stratigraphical and structural data (sea-level related facies, base levels, fault kinematics, and fault offset estimations). The values of the Quaternary uplift rates of the southern Apennines vary from 0.2 mm/yr to about 1.2–1.3 mm/yr. The erosion rates from key-areas of the southern Apennines, obtained from both quantitative geomorphic analysis and missing volumes calculations, has been estimated at 0.2 mm/yr since the Middle Pleistocene. Since the Late Pleistocene erosion and uplift rates match well, the axial-zone landscape could have reached a flux steady state during that time, although it is more probable that the entire study area may be a transient landscape. Tectonic denudation phenomena — leading to the exhumation of the Mesozoic core of the chain — followed by an impressive regional planation started in the Late Pliocene have to be taken into account for a coherent explanation of the morphological evolution of southern Italy.
How to cite:
ISO 690:
Schiattarella, M., Giano, S., Gioia, D. 2017. Long-term geomorphological evolution of the axial zone of the Campania-Lucania Apennine, southern Italy: a review. In Geologica Carpathica, vol. 68, no.1, pp. 57-67. 1335-0552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geoca-2017-0005

APA:
Schiattarella, M., Giano, S., Gioia, D. (2017). Long-term geomorphological evolution of the axial zone of the Campania-Lucania Apennine, southern Italy: a review. Geologica Carpathica, 68(1), 57-67. 1335-0552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geoca-2017-0005
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Published: 8. 2. 2017
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