Caves are one of the most conservative environments on Earth, where archaeological,
anthropological, climatic and tectonic data can be well-preserved. Here, we present the …

Mapping and luminescence aging of raised marine terraces and aeolian ridges along an∼
90 km coastal stretch in southwestern Sicily provide the first quantitative assessment of …

We describe a database of Last Interglacial (Marine Isotopic Stage 5) sea-level proxies for
the Western Mediterranean region. The database was compiled reviewing the information …

Loess–palaeosol sequences serve as valuable archives of changes in climate and
atmospheric mineral dust deposition. However, little work has been conducted on Holocene …

This paper reviews reconstructions of the the evolution of the Ponto-Caspian basin system to
certain parts of the Pontian-Mediterranean system in order to analyze their correlation and …

The evolution of the Sicily Channel Rift Zone (SCRZ) is thought to accommodate the
regional tectonic stresses of the Calabrian subduction system. Much of the observations we …

Intertidal coralline red algal build-ups (Lithophyllum byssoides rims or ridges) are
considered precise sea level markers and mostly used for Holocene sea level history …

ABSTRACT The Asinara Island Marine Protected Area (AMP)(Sardinia, Italy) represents one
of the most uncontaminated areas of the Mediterranean Sea and, therefore, but misses of an …

Along the coast between Cala Viola and Cala del Turco in NW Sardinia, an upper
Palaeozoic to lower Mesozoic continental sedimentary succession is wonderfully exposed …

Determining the age of precise sea level markers such as marine terraces is often difficult
because of the inherent limitation of traditional dating methods. A novel method based on …