Processes and evolution of the Pleistocene coastal sedimentary succession of Es Codolar (Southern Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): insights from soft-sediment deformation structures

Abstract We analyze the evolution of undeformed Middle to Late Pleistocene deposits Es Codolar (Southern Eivissa, Western Mediterranean). The outcrop records a succession characterized by alternation aeolian, colluvial and alluvial fan palaeosols that result in complex stratigraphic architecture. In this area, aeolian beds, are exposed along sea-cliffs for almost 500 m, allowing detailed descriptions both general sedimentological geomorphological features deposits. Several different types soft-sediment deformation structures described (load-casts structures, injection water-scape rizoconcretions), which will help us understanding climatic syn- post-depositional processes. way, main processes triggering formation these seem be sea level changes together with wetter environment during warmer episodes.