Terraced Landforms Onshore and Offshore the Cilento Promontory (South-Eastern Tyrrhenian Margin) and Their Significance as Quaternary Records of Sea Level Changes

Climate change and tectonic uplift are the dominant forcing mechanisms responsible for formation of long narrow terraced landforms in a variety geomorphic settings; marine terraces largely used to reconstruct Quaternary glacial interglacial climates. Along Mediterranean coast, considerable number popular scientific articles have acknowledged range form low-relief surfaces resulting from combined effects eustatic sea-level fluctuations, as relevant geomorphological indicators past high-stands. With exception few recent studies on significance submarine depositional (SDT), submerged been less investigated. By integrating different terrestrial datasets, our work brings together re-examines numerous that typify Cilento Promontory its offshore region. In this area, since 1960s allowed recognition well-defined Middle Upper Pleistocene land, while only investigated occurrences late SDT. Furthermore, date, no consistently integrated findings. For work, we correlated major evidence emerged order support an improved understanding tectono-geomorphological evolution further clarify terraces.