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Morpho-bathymetric and stratigraphic data reveal small-scale mud reliefs in the toe region of the late-Holocene mud wedge on the Adriatic shelf. The reliefs are elongate features with acoustically-transparent cores. They are present in two geologic settings: seaward of shore-parallel undulations within a thick mud wedge and seaward of basement highs where the mud wedge is thin. In both settings, the reliefs define clusters sub-perpendicular to the regional contours, possibly indicating an origin related to escape of fluids from an impregnated unit at the base of the late-Holocene wedge. Shore-parallel bottom-hugging currents appear to modify the reliefs following their episodic growth.
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Cattaneo, A., Correggiari, A., Penitenti, D., Trincardi, F., Marsset, T. (2003). Morphobathymetry of Small-Scale Mud Reliefs on the Adriatic Shelf. In: Locat, J., Mienert, J., Boisvert, L. (eds) Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0093-2_44
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