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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zecchin, Massimo
• Accaino, Flavio
• Ceramicola, Silvia
• Civile, Dario
• Critelli, Salvatore
• Da Lio, Cristina
• Mangano, Giacomo
• Prosser, Giacomo
• Teatini, Pietro
• Tosi, Luigi

Titel

The Crotone Megalandslide, southern Italy: Architecture, timing and tectonic control

Ist Teil von

• Scientific reports, 2018-05, Vol.8 (1), p.7778-11, Article 7778

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Large-scale submarine gravitational land movements involving even more than 1,000 m thick sedimentary successions are known as megalandslides. We prove the existence of large-scale gravitational phenomena off the Crotone Basin, a forearc basin located on the Ionian side of Calabria (southern Italy), by seismic, morpho-bathymetric and well data. Our study reveals that the Crotone Megalandslide started moving between Late Zanclean and Early Piacenzian and was triggered by a contractional tectonic event leading to the basin inversion. Seaward gliding of the megalandslide continued until roughly Late Gelasian, and then resumed since Middle Pleistocene with a modest rate. Interestingly, the onshore part of the basin does not show a gravity-driven deformation comparable to that observed in the marine area, and this peculiar evidence allows some speculations on the origin of the megalandslide.