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We develop a new high-resolution stratigraphic age model to unravel the contributions of tectonic and climatic processes on early to late Pleistocene synorogenic growth strata. We capitalize on excellent, continuous exposures along the flank of the Po foreland in northern Italy to elucidate hydrologic, geomorphic, and sedimentologic processes that are regularly attributed to, but rarely proven to be caused by, glacial-interglacial climatic changes and unsteady rock uplift. We perform our analysis on the Enza section, a succession of marine and terrestrial strata exposed along the Enza River, between Parma and Reggio Emilia, northern Italy. Bedding in the Enza section displays synorogenic growth strata geometry, with bedding dips that range from 2° to 55°, that becomes progressively shallower upsection. We develop an age model that incorporates biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, rock-magnetic …