Title:

Emergence of Venice during the Pleistocene

Author(s):

Kent, Dennis V.
Rio, Domenico
Massari, Francesco
Kukla, George
Lanci, Luca

Date:

2002

Type:

Articles

Department:

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Volume:

21

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12233

Book/Journal Title:

Quaternary Science Reviews

Abstract:

The Pleistocene history of sea-level change for the Venice region was reconstructed using an integrated magneto-bio-cyclo-stratigraphy of lithofacies and a published palynofloral analysis of continuously cored sediments in a 950-meter-deep drill core. The basin in which the Venice region is located collapsed at ∼1.8 Ma with slow sediment accumulation in the deeper-water starved basin during most of the Matuyama polarity chron but shoaled rapidly in the early and middle Brunhes in response to a major phase of deltaic progradation. The initial transition to continental sediments occurred during a prominent glacioeustatic low-stand that is likely to be MIS 12 (∼0.43 Ma) but could be as young as MIS 8 (∼0.25 Ma). The Venice area oscillated from below sea level during subsequent major glacioeustatic high-stands to becoming increasingly emergent during major low-stands as the basin continued to fill with marine and continental sediments. Some parts of the Venice area are now emergent for the first time during a glacioeustatic high-stand (i.e., MIS 1 or the Holocene). The total long-term subsidence rate estimated from the VENICE-1 record is less than 0.5 mm/yr, considerably slower than estimates for the Holocene and especially the modern anthropogenic period.

Subject(s):

Geophysics
Paleoclimate science

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(01)00153-6

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