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The Adriatic Sea is a modern epicontinental basin where the late Quaternary transgressive systems tract shows substantial variations within two contrasting shelf domains, separated by a 250-m-deep remnant basin: a lowgradient shelf in the north, and a steeper margin in the south. Four differentiated sedimentary responses reflect contrasting physiographic domains and differences in the ratio between oceanographic regime and sediment input during relative sea-level rise. The progressive widening of the Adriatic epicontinental shelf, up to seven times its low-stand extent, also determines variations in the style of transgressive deposition by controlling major changes in oceanographic circulation.
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Trincardi, F., Correggiari, A. & Roveri, M. Late Quaternary transgressive erosion and deposition in a modern epicontinental shelf: The Adriatic semienclosed basin. Geo-Marine Letters 14, 41–51 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01204470
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