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Fig. 6. Examples of some MIS 5.5 markers. Attribution of the markers to the MIS 5.5 is discussed in the text. (A) Marine terrace, whose inner
margin is at 125 m a.s.l elevation at Scilla, Calabria (site 145, Fig. 4). (B) S. bubonius sampled at 140 m a.s.l. at Bovetto, Calabria (site 169, Fig. 4). (C)
Tidal notch, Golfo di Orosei, Sardinia (site 12 Grotta del Bue Marino, Table 2). (D) Tidal notch at Capri, Campania (site 120, Fig. 4). (E) Into the
tidal notch of Golfo di Orosei (site 15 Biddiriscottai, Fig. 4). (F) Lithophaga holes carved into the Cala Luna cave, Sardinia (site 11, Fig. 4). (G)
Marine conglomerate on clay (site 138, Briatico, Fig. 4).

The precision of paleo-shoreline position depends on (the maximum tide of 1.1 m is found at Trieste in the
the type of markers (individual values are stipulated in northern Adriatic Sea), no tidal correction was em-
Table 1) and by the precision of the measurement. At ployed.
most sites we performed direct measurement of the
shoreline height using a tape referenced to the mean sea- Whereas positions can be established fairly precisely,
level, and in few cases geodetical stations were used. Due ages determined by radiometric, ecostratigraphic and
to the average tidal range of 0.5 m along Italy’s coasts geomorphologic techniques suffer from lack of accu-
racy. The lack of datable material has resulted in very