TY - JOUR
T1 - A key continental archive for the last 2Ma of climatic history of the central Mediterranean region
T2 - A pilot drilling in the Fucino Basin, central Italy
AU - Giaccio, B.
AU - Regattieri, E.
AU - Zanchetta, G.
AU - Wagner, B.
AU - Galli, P.
AU - Mannella, G.
AU - Niespolo, E.
AU - Peronace, E.
AU - Renne, P. R.
AU - Nomade, S.
AU - Cavinato, G. P.
AU - Messina, P.
AU - Sposato, A.
AU - Boschi, C.
AU - Florindo, F.
AU - Marra, F.
AU - Sadori, L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2015/12/17
Y1 - 2015/12/17
N2 - An 82m long sedimentary succession was retrieved from the Fucino Basin, the largest intermountain tectonic depression of the central Apennines. The basin hosts a succession of fine-grained lacustrine sediments (ca. 900 m-thick) possibly continuously spanning the last 2 Ma. A preliminary tephrostratigraphy study allows us to ascribe the drilled 82m long record to the last 180 ka. Multi-proxy geochemical analyses (XRF scanning, total organic/inorganic carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, oxygen isotopes) reveal noticeable variations, which are interpreted as paleohydrological and paleoenvironmental expressions related to classical glacial-interglacial cycles from the marine isotope stage (MIS) 6 to present day. In light of the preliminary results, the Fucino sedimentary succession is likely to provide a long, continuous, sensitive, and independently dated paleoclimatic archive of the central Mediterranean area.
AB - An 82m long sedimentary succession was retrieved from the Fucino Basin, the largest intermountain tectonic depression of the central Apennines. The basin hosts a succession of fine-grained lacustrine sediments (ca. 900 m-thick) possibly continuously spanning the last 2 Ma. A preliminary tephrostratigraphy study allows us to ascribe the drilled 82m long record to the last 180 ka. Multi-proxy geochemical analyses (XRF scanning, total organic/inorganic carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, oxygen isotopes) reveal noticeable variations, which are interpreted as paleohydrological and paleoenvironmental expressions related to classical glacial-interglacial cycles from the marine isotope stage (MIS) 6 to present day. In light of the preliminary results, the Fucino sedimentary succession is likely to provide a long, continuous, sensitive, and independently dated paleoclimatic archive of the central Mediterranean area.
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U2 - 10.5194/sd-20-13-2015
DO - 10.5194/sd-20-13-2015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958963722
SN - 1816-8957
VL - 20
SP - 13
EP - 19
JO - Scientific Drilling
JF - Scientific Drilling
ER -