LATE QUATERNARY FAN DEVELOPMENT AND SEA-LEVEL CHANGES ALONG THE TYRRHENIAN COAST OF CALABRIA (SOUTHERN ITALY).

Abstract

The Late Quatemary evolution of the western Coastal Range, an area of northem Calabria located along the Tyrrhenian coast, has been reconstructed by means of integrated stratigraphical and geomorphological studies. We have focused on alluvial-fan landforms and deposits. Three generations of alluvial-fans (Middle?-Upper Pleistocene to Holocene), telescopically arranged, have been distinguished, also on the basis of facies analysis, which has indicated that gravity processes were dominant in fan construc­tion; in particular debris-avalanche, debris-flow and sheetflood deposits have been characterised. [...]