Advance in Application of Sequence Stratigraphy in Italys A. Amorosi, B.U. Haq and L. Sabato (eds.)GeoActa Special Publication 12008253 pp.

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Table of Contents

. Delineating aquifer geometry within a sequence stratigraphic framework: Evidence from the Quaternary of the Po River Basin, Northern Italy; The Holocene coastal alluvial fan of the Saraceno Fiumara (Calabria, Southern Italy): highstand filling of an incised valley;

. The Quaternary terraced marine-deposits of the Metaponto area (Southern Italy) in a sequence-stratigraphic perspective; . Anatomy and sequence stratigraphy of the late Quaternary Arno valley fill (Tuscany, Italy); . Incised valleys, their filling and mammal fossil record: a case study from Middle-Upper Pleistocene deposits of the Roman Basin (Latium, Italy); . Sequence stratigraphy of Holocene deposits in the offshore of Venice based on very high-resolution seismic profiles;

. Sequence stratigraphy of Late Quaternary slope deposits in the South Adriatic; . The Messinian salinity crisis: a sequence-stratigraphic approach;

. Sequence stratigraphy of a lowstand prograding complex, middle-upper Pliocene Ariano Unit, Potenza Basin (Southern Apennines, Italy); . Sequence stratigraphy of Cretaceous carbonate platforms: a cyclostratigraphic approach; . Sedimentology and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of a lower Cretaceous shallow-water carbonate succession from the Western Gargano Promontory (Apulia, Southern Italy); . Peri-Tethyan Cretaceous shallow-water carbonate systems: sedimentary patterns and lithofacies; . Sequence stratigraphy of the Latium-Abruzzi carbonate ramp (Miocene, Central Apennines, Italy);

An application of sequence stratigraphy to Mars: the Eberswalde fan delta.

A. AmorosiL. Sabato, M. Tropeano.

A. Cilumbriello, M. Tropeano, L. Sabato

A. Amorosi, G. Sarti, V. Rossi, V. FontanaS. Milli, M. Moscatelli, M.R. Palombo, L. Parlagreco, M. Paciucci

M. Zecchin, L. Baradello, G. Brancolini, F. Donda, F. Rizzetto, L. TosiG.

Verdicchio, F. Trincardi M. Roveri, S. Lugli, V. Manzi, B.C. Schreiber S.G. Longhitano

B. D'Argenio , V. Ferreri, S. AmodioL. Spalluto

L. Simone, G. CarannanteM. Brandano, G. Civitelli

M. Pondrelli, A.P. Rossi, L. Marinangeli, E. Hauber, A. Baliva.

This special issue of GeoActa is a collection of papers presented at the GeoSed workshop “Thirty Years of Sequence Stratigraphy: Applications, Limits and Prospects”, which was held in Bari (Italy) in October 2006. The volume does not claim to present a complete state-of-the-art of sequence stratigraphy in Italy, but offers some updated examples of the application of sequence-stratigraphic concepts from a variety of geological settings.The volume is organized into three sections. The first section is devoted to the sequence stratigraphy of the Quaternary deposits. Over the last decade, an explosion of international research on the sequence stratigraphy of Quaternary subsurface and outcrop successions has produced new understanding of the stratigraphic architecture of alluvial and coastal plains and its impact on human society. Thus, half of the fourteen papers in this volume deal with this topic, from both onshore and offshore areas. The second section includes six examples of sequence- stratigraphic studies from carbonate, siliciclastic, and evaporite pre-Quaternary depositional systems. The last section includes just one paper, which represents a stimulating starting point for an unusual sequence-stratigraphic approach. The paper on the sequence stratigraphy of the Eberswalde fan-delta complex from the surface of Mars is an intriguing case of planetary geology.

GeoSed - Italian Association for Sedimentary Geology