MARINE TERRACING AND TECTONIC UPLIFT RATES IN THE CAPO VATICANO AREA (SOUTHERN CALABRIA) DURING THE MIDDLE-LATE QUATERNARY

Abstract

The Capo Vaticano promontory represents a structural high bordered by severa! normai fault segments mainly striking NE-SW and WNW-ESE and belonging to the Siculo-Calabrian Rift Zone. The northwestem coast of Capo Vaticano is characterized by the occurrence of a NE-SW striking, NW facing normai fault system. Southwards, the promontory is abruptly truncated by two main WNW-ESE trending, south facing normai faults (Coccorino and Nicotera faults) that separate the structural high from the Gioia Tauro basin. In the Capo Vaticano area six orders of marine terraces with preserved inner edges bave been recognized. We mapped the inner edge and the outer edge of each marine terrace occurring in the whole area of Capo Vaticano peninsula. [...]