COVA , Andrea

The occurrence of mud volcanoes (MVs) in the deep Ionian Sea was first recognised in the early 1980s from the recovery of cores of mud breccia, initially hypothesised to record tectonic or diapiric processes, but eventually shown to record a long (> 1 Ma) history of seafloor extrusion from the accretionary prisms along the Europe-Africa...

Ice sheets have occupied the Atlantic continental margin of Europe as far south as the Celtic Sea, where the maximum extent of glaciation remains in question. The Celtic Sea contains no obvious glacial landforms, but is dominated by a system of shelf-crossing seafloor megaridges, up to 60 m high and 10 km wide, that extend seaward up to 300 km...

The Ionian Calabrian margin, offshore southern Italy, is a tectonically active area, located above a subduction zone dominated by rollback of the African plate. A variety of mass wasting features are known to occur along the inner continental slope, based on seafloor mapping during the Italian project MaGIC (Marine Geohazards Along the Italian...

The Ionian Calabrian margin is a tectonically active area, and is part of the Calabrian Arc, that is the SE tip of the arcuate Appeninc-Maghrebide fold and thrust belt, generated through the Neogene northwest-oriented subduction of the Nubia plate below the Eurasian plate. Based on seabed mapping carried out during the national Project MaGIC...

Glacigenic sediment fans recording shelf edge deposition from marine-terminating ice sheets have previously been recognised along the NW European continental margin from Svalbard to as far south as Donegal, off north-west Ireland. Here we present evidence of a previously unrecognised partially glacially-fed Plio-Pleistocene sediment wedge on...