STUDIES ON THE PLEISTOCENE OF LATIUM: UNDERSTANDING THE GLACIO-EUSTATIC FORCING ON THE AGGRADATIONAL SUCCESSIONS OF THE TYRRHENIAN SEA MARGIN OF CENTRAL ITALY

Abstract

The studies conducted by Francesco Paolo "Antonello" Bonadonna in the area of Rome during the 1960s laid the basis for development of the first complete chronostratigraphy scheme for the Middle-Upper Pleistocene of this region. This scheme reported the succession of alternating erosional phases and transgressive series, and their correlation with the limited number of glacial-interglacial cycles known at that time, highlighting the implicit glacio-eustatic trigger of the sedimentary process. Besides describing the observations and the inferences that allowed Bonadonna to develop the methodological approach to the study of the stratigraphy of this region, in the present paper I will also show how, starting from these basic principles, the modern chronostratigraphic framework of glacio-eustatically controlled aggradational successions used today to describe the stratigraphy of the Tiber basin has been developed.chronostratigraphy