Underwater surveys in the reconstruction of Upper Pleistocene - Holocene sea level changes in the Taranto seas

The integrated analysis of the geophysical, stratigraphic and geomorphological data collected in the Taranto seas, highlights the Holocene transgression that leads to the deposition of a considerable thickness of sandy-clay sediments, up to about 10 m thick, representing the body of marine terrace current in accumulation. They cover a sub-horizontal transgression surface shaped on the Plio- Pleistocene clays. The comparative analysis of sedimentary bodies and present depths confirm the current evolutionary model of the Tyrrhenian; in this time, between the sea surface and the bottom of that sea a depth equal to the difference between the shoreline and the recognized top of the sediment.