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A. E. GUNTHER describes relatively large movements of uplift and subsidence of the land with respect to the sea in historical times in southern Italy. The Lithodomus borings at Paestum indicate a relative subsidence of the land, followed by an uplift of 18.5 m, in the time that has elapsed since the construction of the temples. If Gunther's contention that the uplift has occurred since the Middle Ages is correct, then an average rate of uplift of approximately 3–4 cm per annum is implied. In Calabria, however, where a number of colleagues and I have recently completed a geological survey of the whole province, at a scale of 1 : 25,000, for the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, uplift has occurred at an appreciably slower rate.
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BURTON, A. Marine Levels in South Italy. Nature 203, 1060 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031060b0
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