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A multidisciplinary study of ecosystem evolution through early Pleistocene climate change from the marine Arda River section, Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2018

Gaia Crippa ,
Andrea Baucon ,
Fabrizio Felletti ,
Gianluca Raineri  and
Daniele Scarponi
Gaia Crippa*
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio,” via Mangiagalli 34, Milano, 20133, Italy
Andrea Baucon
Affiliation:
Università di Modena, Dipartimento di Chimica e Scienze Geologiche, Via Campi 103, Modena, 41125, Italy Geology and Palaeontology Office, Geopark Naturtejo da Meseta Meridional – UNESCO Global Geopark. Municipality of Idanha-a-Nova – Centro Cultural Raiano. Av. Joaquim Morão, Idanha-a-Nova, 6060-101, Portugal
Fabrizio Felletti
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio,” via Mangiagalli 34, Milano, 20133, Italy
Gianluca Raineri
Affiliation:
Parco Regionale dello Stirone e del Piacenziano, Loc. Scipione Ponte 1, Salsomaggiore Terme, 43039, Italy
Daniele Scarponi
Affiliation:
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Via Zamboni 67, Bologna, 40126, Italy
*
*Corresponding author at: Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio,” via Mangiagalli 34, Milano, 20133, Italy. E-mail address: [email protected] (G.Crippa).
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Abstract

The Arda River marine succession (Italy) is an excellent site to apply an integrated approach to paleoenvironmental reconstructions, combining the results of sedimentology, body fossil paleontology, and ichnology to unravel the sedimentary evolution of a complex marine setting in the frame of early Pleistocene climate change and tectonic activity. The succession represents a subaqueous extension of a fluvial system, originated during phases of advance of fan deltas affected by high-density flows triggered by river floods, and overlain by continental conglomerates, indicating a relative sea level fall and the establishment of a continental environment. An overall regressive trend is observed through the section, from prodelta to delta front and intertidal settings. The hydrodynamic energy and the sedimentation rate are not constant through the section, but they are influenced by hyperpycnal flows, whose sediments were mainly supplied by an increase in Apennine uplift and erosion, especially after 1.80 Ma. The Arda section documents the same evolutionary history of coeval successions in the Paleo-Adriatic region, as well as the climatic changes of the early Pleistocene. The different approaches used complement quite well one another, giving strength and robustness to the obtained results.

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Early PleistoceneFacies analysisBody fossilsTrace fossilsPaleo-Adriatic
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , March 2018 , pp. 533 - 562
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Copyright © University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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