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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cocco, Fabrizio
• Andreucci, Stefano
• Sechi, Daniele
• Cossu, Giulia
• Funedda, Antonio

Titel

Upper Pleistocene tectonics in western Sardinia (Italy): Insights from the Sinis peninsula structural high

Ist Teil von

• Terra nova (Oxford, England), 2019-10, Vol.31 (5), p.485-493

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Corsica‐Sardinia block is a lithospheric fragment whose recent role in the geodynamics of the central‐Western Mediterranean basin is still enigmatic. The most recent regional structure in Sardinia is the Plio‐Pleistocene Campidano Basin, which is considered in a ‘post‐rift’ stage since the Middle Pleistocene. New structural and stratigraphic geological surveys along with luminescence ages provide evidence to support an ongoing tectonic activity since the Marine Isotopic Stage 7 (MIS7; ca. 220 ka) on the Sinis peninsula, the structural high that bounds the north‐western side of the Campidano Basin. In particular, this paper reveals for the first time the presence of N–S striking normal faults system offsetting late Pleistocene aeolianites (130 ± 12 ka; 82 ± 9 ka).