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Seafloor morphology of the Montenegro/N. Albania Continental Margin (Adriatic Sea—Central Mediterranean)

Authors: Del Bianco F; L Gasperini; F Giglio; G Bortoluzzi; Z Kljajic; M Ravaioli;

Seafloor morphology of the Montenegro/N. Albania Continental Margin (Adriatic Sea—Central Mediterranean)

Abstract

High-resolution multibeam morpho-bathymetricmaps and a dense grid of seismic re flection profiles showrelict and palimpsest geomorphologic features along the Montenegro/Northern Albanian Continental Margin. This sector of the Eastern Adriatic shelf,attheexternalfront oftheDinaridesChain, ischaracterizedbyhighly variable sea floor patterns and depositional styles,and shows a peculiar alternation of large-scale trough sand ridges,probably caused by tectonic compressive deformations. These tectonically controlled morphologies are overprinted by the result of sedimentary processes, such as progradation at river out flows, erosion, and reworking of sediments by longshore currents, as well as gravity-driven process caused by sediment loading and seismic shaking. Physiographic domains along this shelf-slope margin include (i) an inner and an outer shelf, separated by two major topographic highs, the Kotor and the Bar ridges; (ii) a drowned lobate delta formed during the last phase of sea level fall, likely fed by the Buna/Bojana drainage basin; and (iii) a continental slope affected by gravity-driven faulting and mass-wasting processes. Sea floor reflectivity maps, ground-truthed by grain-size analysis of bottom sediments, reveal that fine-grained deposits accumulate in the inner shelf, while other sectors appear starved. The effects of the last sea-level rise is testified by the presence of seabed forms diagnostic of erosion ordepositional processes,such as large dunes, sediment ridges and sediment waves, which were studied to infer the effect of bottom currents under the present-day oceanographic regime and in the recent past. This paper presents a first description of geomorphologic features observed along the Montenegro/Northern Albanian Continental Margin, in the context of Late Quaternary sea-level changes.

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