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Quaternary development and evolution of the sedimentary environments in the Central Mediterranean Spanish coast
Maria Pilar FumanalMaría José Viñalssubject
geographyEemiangeography.geographical_feature_categoryCoastal plainPaleontologyOceanographyFaciesSedimentary rockGlacial periodProgradationQuaternaryGeologyEarth-Surface ProcessesMarine transgressiondescription
Abstract The reconstruction of the evolutive phases of the Mediterranean Spanish Central sector during the Late Quaternary is the aim of this work. From geomorphological, sedimentological and chronometrical studies, different morphostratigraphic units are determined. Results point out the development of several transgressive phases. The older one go back to isotope stage 7. The Eemian transgression is broadly recorded, and its coastline was near the present one. During the Flandrian episode, the sea surpassed the current coastline in the northern coastal plain, while in the meridional littoral erosive notches were formed between +1 and +2 m. During the regressive events, we find the progradation of the continental sediments with alluvial and colluvial facies. We note the terminal phases of the Wurmiam glaciation because of their marked climatic aridic characteristics.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-01-01 | Quaternary International |