Methods and Applications of High-Resolution Stratigraphy on Continental Margins

Dear Colleagues,

Continental margins are multi-scale stratigraphic archives of the history of the Earth, where a record of geological and environmental changes can be unveiled. They host continental and marine settings, the study of which has sometimes ensued in a divide of methodologies that has in turn biased research quests and results. In the last two to three decades, the development of very high-resolution techniques and their application to marine settings have considerably improved our capability of investigating depositional/erosional processes controlling the stratigraphic architecture of shelf-slope settings, as well as the geomorphic shaping of the seafloor. In particular, continental margins are now being extensively investigated by means of high-resolution morpho-bathymetry, allowing the placing of seismic-stratigraphic and sedimentological analyses in a geomorphic perspective.

This Special Issue aims at addressing questions lively raised or re-proposed by recent improvements in very high resolution investigation methods, which may deal with: i) the existence of general patterns in stratigraphy; ii) their temporal/spatial scale of occurrence; iii) their relationships with recent/modern processes active at seafloor; and iv) the possible feedbacks with respect to their matching to current conceptual models, which they may contribute to test and refine.

Prof. Dr. Domenico Ridente
Guest Editor

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