Quaternary Lowstand Prograding Wedges of the Salento Continental Shelf (Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy): Architectural Stacking Patterns and the Control of Glacio-Eustatic Sea Level Fluctuations and Foreland Tectonic Uplift

The performance of both the tectonic uplift and 4th-order glacial eustatic sea level fluctuations in controlling stratigraphic architecture Quaternary lowstand prograding wedges Salento continental shelf (Southern Adriatic sea, Italy) during a time interval spanning from Middle Pleistocene to Holocene has been pointed out through interpretation high-resolution seismic reflection profiles their correlation curves isotopic stratigraphy. Three main transgressive surfaces erosion (RS1, RS2 RS3) punctuate shelf, separating between them. All along Pleistocene, increasing Puglia offshore, combining with glacio-eustatic variations, have dealt pattern broad forced regression wedge, favoring platform progradation approximately 15 km. architectural stacking patterns overlying Late are controlled by changes, allowing for formation incomplete depositional sequences. In this period, signature overcomes mark, implying decline Apulian foreland course final 250 ky.