Source and Sediment: A Case Study of Provenance and Mass Balance at an Active Plate Margin (Calabria, Southern Italy)

by Hillert Ibbeken and Ruprecht Schleyer

This case study presents the first comprehensive, systematic and data-bank supported analysis of provenance (source rock reconstruction) from its erosional products, terrigenous sediments. Source area properties such as geology, climate and relief of 19 small basins draining a modern active plate margin in Calabria, Southern Italy, were digitized and compared quantitatively with the sedimentological characteristics of the river-mouth deposits. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642761674
• ISBN13: 9783642761676
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 286 Pages