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Late Pliocene-Pleistocene incision in the Ebro Basin (North Spain)

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BSGF-EARTH SCIENCES BULLETIN
卷 192, 期 -, 页码 -

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EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/bsgf/2021020

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Ebro Basin; Middle Pleistocene transition; Neogene; fluvial terraces; Pyrenees; cosmogenic nuclides

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  1. OROGENTOTAL-BRGM-CNRS project

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The study focuses on river terraces in the Ebro Basin, providing new age constraints and a unified terrace chronology map. The research reveals a transition in the fluvial network from mobile to fixed, potentially occurring during the Middle Pleistocene Transition. Additionally, the study estimates a tripling of incision rates between 2.8-1.15 Ma and present.
The Ebro Basin constitutes the central part of the southern foreland of the Pyrenees. It was endorheic during the Cenozoic and accumulated sediments. By the end of the Miocene, erosion and river incision reconnected the basin to the Mediterranean Sea, establishing a post-opening drainage network. Those rivers left terraces that we study in this work. We first synthesize previous works on river terraces that are widely dispersed in the basin. We provide new age constraints, up to 3 Ma, obtained thanks to cosmogenic nuclides using both profile and burial methods. We derive a unified fluvial terrace chronology and a homogenized map of the highest terraces over the entire Ebro Basin. The dated terraces labeled A, B, C, D, and E are dated to 2.8 +/- 0.7 Ma, 1.15 +/- 0.15 Ma, 850 +/- 70 ka, 650 +/- 130 ka, and 400 +/- 120 ka, respectively. The chronology proposed here is similar to other sequences of river terraces dated in the Iberian Peninsula, around the Pyrenees, and elsewhere in Europe. The oldest terraces (A, B, C) are extensive, indicating they form a mobile fluvial network while from D to present, the network was stable and entrenched in 100 to 200 m-deep valleys. The transition from mobile to fixed fluvial network is likely to have occurred during the Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT, between 0.7 and 1.3 Ma), when long-period/high-intensity climate fluctuations were established in Europe. We estimate that between 2.8-1.15 Ma and present, the incision rates have tripled.

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