Results of the radiocarbon age dating of wood fragments and sedimentation rates from three wells from the Adige Valley near the city of Trento (Northern Italy)

From this dating results that the sedimentation rate in the valley of the Adige river was around 10,000 years B.C. extremely high, up to 130 mm/y and decreased after that lime rapidly to a rate of around 2 to 3 mm/y remaining rather constant until now.

The high sedimentation rates around 10,000 years B.C. correspond to the climatic optimum that produced a rapid deglaciation in the Alps and an uplift of the Mediterranean Sea.