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Quaternary evolution of the intermontane Val d'Agri Basin, Southern Apennines

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Irene Zembo ,
Laura Panzeri ,
Anna Galli ,
Riccardo Bersezio ,
Marco Martini  and
Emanuela Sibilia
Irene Zembo*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 34, 20133 I-Milano, Italy
Laura Panzeri
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali and Centro Universitario per la Datazioni di Milano Bicocca (Cudam), Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 53, 20125 I-Milano, Italy
Anna Galli
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali and Centro Universitario per la Datazioni di Milano Bicocca (Cudam), Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 53, 20125 I-Milano, Italy CNR–INFM, Via R. Cozzi 53, 20125 I-Milano, Italy
Riccardo Bersezio
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 34, 20133 I-Milano, Italy CNR–IDPA, Via M. Bianco 9, 20131 I-Milano, Italy
Marco Martini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali and Centro Universitario per la Datazioni di Milano Bicocca (Cudam), Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 53, 20125 I-Milano, Italy
Emanuela Sibilia
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali and Centro Universitario per la Datazioni di Milano Bicocca (Cudam), Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 53, 20125 I-Milano, Italy
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⁎Corresponding author. Fax: +39 02/50315494. E-mail address:irene.zembo@unimi.it (I. Zembo).
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Abstract

Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) enables the chronology of the late Pleistocene evolution for the Val d'Agri intermontane basin of Southern Apennines to be defined in the frame of Mediterranean geodynamic and climate changes. Quartz sand from braided floodplain and alluvial fan depositional systems was analyzed using the coarse-grained, single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) technique. The obtained optical ages are mostly consistent with other assessments (radiocarbon, tephrochronology) and stratigraphic constraints. OSL allows for the dating to 56–43 ka of an asymmetric subsidence stage that forced alluvial fan progradation, filling of a former lacustrine area, and development of an axial alluvial plain. A short period of Mediterranean-type pedogenesis, recorded at the top of the prograding-aggrading fans (OSL age bracket 43–32 ka), corresponds with MIS 3. During the subsequent stage of decline of vegetation cover, possibly corresponding to MIS 2, the latest progradation of alluvial fans occurred. The subsequent uplift and breakthrough of the basin threshold during the latest Pleistocene and Holocene induced entrenchment of the drainage network. The results presented here provide an example of the usefulness of OSL dating in intermontane continental settings where other geochronological constraints are scarce.

Keywords

Val d'Agri BasinIntermontane basinsOSL DatingPleistoceneSedimentation and tectonicsSouthern Apennines
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , November 2009 , pp. 431 - 442
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University of Washington

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