Subsidenza Tardo Pleistocenica ed Olocenica nel Medio Adriatico evidenziata dalla geofisica e da ricostruzioni paleoambientali

The main results of a study carried out in the Central Adriatic Sea and based on seismic profiles and gravity and piston cores, are here presented. The discovery of a last glacial shoreline allows to extimate the subsidence rate in the meso-adriatic depression that for the last 18-20,000 years has been 3.5-3.8 m/1000 years. A general tilting of the whole area is inferred, with uplifting in the Tremiti Islans zone and foundering to the North, where the important sedimentary imput fed progradazional wedges representing the southward advance of the Po delta that compensated for the seafloor lowering.