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Sedimentology, faunal content and pollen record of Middle Pleistocene palustrine and lagoonal sediments from the Peri-Adriatic basin, Abruzzi, eastern central Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Pierluigi Pieruccini ,
Claudio Di Celma ,
Federico Di Rita ,
Donatella Magri ,
Giorgio Carnevale ,
Piero Farabollini ,
Luca Ragaini  and
Mauro Caffau
Pierluigi Pieruccini
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Claudio Di Celma*
Affiliation:
School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Federico Di Rita
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Donatella Magri
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Giorgio Carnevale
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Piero Farabollini
Affiliation:
School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Luca Ragaini
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Mauro Caffau
Affiliation:
OGS (National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics), Sgonico, TS, Italy
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address:[email protected](C. Di Celma)
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Abstract

A 25 m-thick outcrop section exposed at Torre Mucchia, on the sea-cliff north of Ortona, eastern central Italy, comprises a rare Middle Pleistocene succession of shallow-water and paralic sediments along the western Adriatic Sea. An integrated study of the section, including facies and microfacies analyses, and characterization of paleobiological associations (mollusks, fishes, ostracods, foraminifers and pollen), enable a detailed reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions during deposition. The shallow-water deposits include a transgressive, deepening- and fining-upward shoreface to offshore-transition facies succession overlain by a regressive shoreface-foreshore sandstone body with an erosive base and a rooted and pedogenically altered horizon at the top that imply deposition during sea-level fall. This forced regressive unit is overlain by paralic strata forming a transgressive succession comprising palustrine carbonates and back-barrier lagoonal mudstones. The palustrine carbonates exhibit some of the typical features encountered in palustrine limestones deposited within seasonal freshwater wetlands (marl prairies). Following the sea-level rising trend, the freshwater marshes were abruptly replaced by a barrier-lagoon system that allowed deposition of the overlying mud-rich unit. Within these deposits, the faunal assemblages are consistent with a low-energy brackish environment characterized by a relatively high degree of confinement. The pollen record documents the development of open forest vegetation dominated by Pinus and accompanied by a number of mesophilous and thermophilous tree taxa, whose composition supports a tentative correlation with Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 17. The new pollen record from Torre Mucchia improves our understanding of the vegetation development in the Italian Peninsula during the Middle Pleistocene and sheds new light on the role played by the most marked glacial periods in determining the history of tree taxa.

Keywords

Middle PleistoceneMicropaleontologyPollenMollusksFishesMIS 17Palustrine carbonates
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 359 - 372
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Copyright © University of Washington 2016

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