Late Pleistocene to Holocene relative sea-level rise in the North-Western Sicily offshore: the Castellammare Basin example

The post Last Glacial Maximum (about 30-19 cal. kyr b.P.) transgression of the continental shelves testifies how coastal environments dramatically migrated landward, in a brief span of time, and how their sedimentary architectures reveal the interplay between depositional and erosional processes. We discuss the sedimentary evolution of the Transgressive Systems Tract and the Highstand Systems Tract of the Castellammare Basin, NW Sicily offshore, during the Holocene to Present by the application of Sequence Stratigraphy concepts. The dataset consists of high-resolution seismic profiles, integrated with cores and grab samples. The use of different seismic sources allows us a detailed seismostratigraphic characterization of the TST and HST and the reconstruction of their sedimentary and morphological evolution