Author/Editor		Ogorelec, Bojan; Faganeli, Jadran; Mišič, Miha; Čermelj, Branko
Title		Reconstruction of paleoenvironment in the Bay of Koper (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic)
Translated title		Rekonstrukcija paleookolja v Koprskem zalivu
Type		članek
Source		Annales Koper
Vol. and No.		Letnik 7, št. 11
Publication year		1997
Volume		str. 187-200
Language		eng
Abstract		Geomorphologically, the Bay of Koper (Gulf of Trieste, nothern Adriatic) is a wide submerged valley of the Rižana river. Five boreholes drilled in the inner part of the Bay of Koper were used to reconstruct the paleonvironment of the Bay in the Holocene. This changes are clearly related to the global changes of sea level.The cross-section of the Holocene sediment in the Bay indicates that the early Holocene - late Glacial sediment, dated to about 10-11000 years BP, occured in the southern part of the Bay when the sea started to enter the Rižana valley. When the southern part of the valley was submerged, the eastern part was still influenced by the Rižana fluvial deposits. Marine sedimentation prevailed over fluvial sedimentation at depth of 26 m during the most intensive sea transgression. Studied boreholes also indicate simultaneous sea-level rise and sedimentation process in theBay during the Holocene. These data are accordace with general of sea-level rise in the northern Adriatic in Holocene.
Descriptors		PALEONTOLOGY GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS SEAWATER WATER POLLUTION