Terraced marine and fluvial deposits along the lower Agri River Valley (Lucanian Ionian coast-Southern Italy)

In the hinterland of the Taranto Gulf, there is a staircase of terraces. The higher tectonic terraces, displaced by NE faults, belongs to a Middle Pleistocene regressional unit later flattened during a marine transgression. Four fluvial terraces are found at progressive elevation along the left side of the Agri River. The higher fluvial terrace, attributed to the Last Glaciation, spread northeast and east wards and constitute the lowermost terrace of the staircase. It seal a cliff possibly modelled during the Last Interglacial transgression. The two lower fluvial terraces were modelled during the Late Glacial-Early Holocene. The forth terrace, Late Holocene in age, and the following sedimentation cover the marine cliff modelled during the Early Holocene transgression and spreads in the coastal area.