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1. The World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (version 1.0)

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Rovere, Alessio, Ryan, Deirdre D, Vacchi, Matteo, Dutton, Andrea, Simms, Alexander R, and Murray-Wallace, Colin V

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Earth Sciences, Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Geology, Atmospheric Sciences, Geochemistry, Atmospheric sciences, Geoinformatics, Physical geography and environmental geoscience
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Abstract. This paper presents version 1.0 of the World Atlas ofLast Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS), a global database of sea-level proxiesand samples dated to marine isotope stage 5 (∼ 80 to 130 ka).The database includes a series of datasets compiled in the framework of aspecial issue published in this journal (https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/special_issue1055.html, last access: 15 December 2022). This paper collates the individual contributions (archivedin a Zenodo community at https://zenodo.org/communities/walis_database/, last access: 15 December 2022) into anopen-access, standalone database (Rovere et al., 2022,https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7348242). The release of WALIS 1.0 includescomplete documentation and scripts to download, analyze, and visualize thedata (https://alerovere.github.io/WALIS/, last access: 15 December 2022). The databasecontains 4545 sea-level proxies (e.g., marine terraces or fossil beachdeposits), 4110 dated samples (e.g., corals dated with U-series), and 280other time constraints (e.g., biostratigraphic constraints or tephralayers) interconnected with several tables containing accessory data andmetadata. By creating a centralized database of sea-level proxy data for theLast Interglacial, the WALIS database will be a valuable resource to thebroader paleoclimate community to facilitate data–model integration andintercomparisons, assessments of sea-level reconstructions between differentstudies and different regions, as well as comparisons between past sea-levelhistory and other paleoclimate proxy data.

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2023

2. Climatic control on the formation of marine-notches in microtidal settings: New data from the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

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Vacchi, Matteo, Gatti, Guilia, Kulling, Benjamin, Morhange, Christophe, Marriner, Nick, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra [Pisa], University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Septentrion Environnement [Marseille], NOVADAPT, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident (AOROC), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Sciences de l'Antiquité - ENS Paris (DSA ENS-PSL), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)

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Coastal evolution, Geochemistry and Petrology, Mediterranean sea, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Geology, marine notches, sea-level changes, Oceanography, rocky coast
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International audience; The genesis and distribution of marine notches around the microtidal Mediterranean basin has been widely debated in recent years. Here we provide new climate and geomorphological insights into the factors controlling notch formation based on the bathymetric distribution of marine notches found in Marseille Bay (NW Mediterranean). In this area, the notches exist (i) either near present Mean Sea Level (MSL); or (ii) at ∼35 cm below the MSL, but with no notch present at higher elevations on the same profile. We investigate the genesis of this unusual notch distribution using bio-geomorphological surveys, numerical modelling of nearshore hydrodynamics and palaeo-climate data. This analysis shows that the submerged notch only occurs in coastal sectors characterized by minimal or negligible hydrodynamics. Comparison with the millennial sea-level evolution shows that the present elevation of the submerged notch closely matches the sea-level stabilization that occurred during the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA, ∼1400 to ∼1290 BP). During this period, the notch formed in sheltered areas of the coast, despite minor wave mechanical action and bioerosion, because relative sea-level stability concentrated erosion in the same portion of the cliff for ∼400 years. The increased rates of sea-level rise over the last 1500 years hampered the formation of a younger notch in sheltered sectors of the coast. By contrast, changes in sea-level rise rates did not affect notch formation at exposed sites where the mechanical action of waves coupled with intense bioerosion were the major control on notch formation. These data further confirm that the preservation of a fossil submerged notch is not only ascribable to co-seismic subsidence but also to climatic factors. This has implications for palaeo-seismic assessments of the Mediterranean region.

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2022
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3. MIS 5e relative sea-level changes in the Mediterranean Sea

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Stocchi, Paolo, Vacchi, Matteo, Lorscheid, Thomas, de Boer, Bas, Simms, Alexander R., van de Wal, Roderik S.W., Vermeersen, Bert L.A., Pappalardo, Marta, Rovere, Alessio, Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Sub Dynamics Meteorology, Marine and Atmospheric Research, and Earth and Climate

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Marine isotope stage, Archeology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Pleistocene, Evolution, Coastal, Geomorphology, Mediterranean Sea, Sea level changes, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Archeology (arts and humanities), Geology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mediterranean sea, Behavior and Systematics, Taverne, Settore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 14 - Life Below Water, Holocene, Sea level, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, Tectonics, Archaeology, Interglacial, Physical geography, Ice sheet
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Sea-level indicators dated to the Last Interglacial, or Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e, have a twofold value. First, they can be used to constrain the melting of Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets in response to global warming scenarios. Second, they can be used to calculate the vertical crustal rates at active margins. For both applications, the contribution of glacio- and hydro-isostatic adjustment (GIA) to vertical displacement of sea-level indicators must be calculated. In this paper, we re-assess MIS 5e sea-level indicators at 11 Mediterranean sites that have been generally considered tectonically stable or affected by mild tectonics. These are found within a range of elevations of 2–10 m above modern mean sea level. Four sites are characterized by two separate sea-level stands, which suggest a two-step sea-level highstand during MIS 5e. Comparing field data with numerical modeling we show that (i) GIA is an important contributor to the spatial and temporal variability of the sea-level highstand during MIS 5e, (ii) the isostatic imbalance from the melting of the MIS 6 ice sheet can produce a >2.0 m sea-level highstand, and (iii) a two-step melting phase for the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets reduces the differences between observations and predictions. Our results show that assumptions of tectonic stability on the basis of the MIS 5e records carry intrinsically large uncertainties, stemming either from uncertainties in field data and GIA models. The latter are propagated to either Holocene or Pleistocene sea-level reconstructions if tectonic rates are considered linear through time.

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2018
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4. Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean

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Marriner, Nick, Kaniewski, David, Morhange, Christophe, Flaux, Clement, Giaime, Matthieu, Vacchi, Matteo, Goff, James, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - UFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (ECOLAB), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement - ECOLAB ( ECOLAB ), Institut National Polytechnique [Toulouse] ( INP ) -Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement de géosciences de l'environnement ( CEREGE ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ( IRD ) -Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Collège de France ( CdF ) -Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut Ecologie et Environnement (INEE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (LEFE), Institut Ecologie et Environnement (INEE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)

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Multidisciplinary, Physical Sciences, SciAdv r-articles, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Geology, [ SDU.STU ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Research Articles, Research Article
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Climate pacing of “tsunami” deposits in the Mediterranean’s geological record challenges ~90% of the original interpretations., From 2000 to 2015, tsunamis and storms killed more than 430,000 people worldwide and affected a further >530 million, with total damages exceeding US$970 billion. These alarming trends, underscored by the tragic events of the 2004 Indian Ocean catastrophe, have fueled increased worldwide demands for assessments of past, present, and future coastal risks. Nonetheless, despite its importance for hazard mitigation, discriminating between storm and tsunami deposits in the geological record is one of the most challenging and hotly contended topics in coastal geoscience. To probe this knowledge gap, we present a 4500-year reconstruction of “tsunami” variability from the Mediterranean based on stratigraphic but not historical archives and assess it in relation to climate records and reconstructions of storminess. We elucidate evidence for previously unrecognized “tsunami megacycles” with three peaks centered on the Little Ice Age, 1600, and 3100 cal. yr B.P. (calibrated years before present). These ~1500-year cycles, strongly correlated with climate deterioration in the Mediterranean/North Atlantic, challenge up to 90% of the original tsunami attributions and suggest, by contrast, that most events are better ascribed to periods of heightened storminess. This timely and provocative finding is crucial in providing appropriately tailored assessments of coastal hazard risk in the Mediterranean and beyond.

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2017
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6. Northern Adriatic environmental changes since 500 AD reconstructed at Aquileia (Italy)

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David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, Giovanni Sarti, Duccio Bertoni, Marco Marchesini, Veronica Rossi, Anna Lena, Alexandra Bivolaru, Majid Pourkerman, Matteo Vacchi, Rachid Cheddadi, Thierry Otto, Frédéric Luce, Daniela Cottica, Christophe Morhange, Kaniewski, David, Marriner, Nick, Sarti, Giovanni, Bertoni, Duccio, Marchesini, Marco, Rossi, Veronica, Lena, Anna, Bivolaru, Alexandra, Pourkerman, Majid, Vacchi, Matteo, Cheddadi, Rachid, Otto, Thierry, Luce, Frédéric, Cottica, Daniela, Morhange, Christophe, Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT), Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra [Pisa], University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Centro Agricoltura Ambiente 'Giorgio Nicoli' (CAA), Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali [Bologna], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Centre de Recherche sur les Sociétés et Environnements en Méditerranées (CRESEM), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences (INIOAS), Dipartimiento di Scienze della Terra, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (LEFE), Institut Ecologie et Environnement (INEE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, University of Ca’ Foscari [Venice, Italy], Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident (AOROC), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Sciences de l'Antiquité - ENS Paris (DSA ENS-PSL), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)

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Archeology, Global and Planetary Change, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Aquileia Fluvial harbour Ecosystems Anthropogenic activities Climate Late Holocene Italy, Geology, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES, Settore L-ANT/07 - Archeologia Classica, Ecosystems, NORTHERN ADRIATIC, Italy, AQUILEIA, late holocene, Anthropogenic activities, Settore L-ANT/10 - Metodologie della Ricerca Archeologica, fluvial harbour, climate, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, AQUILEIA, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES, NORTHERN ADRIATIC
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International audience; The fluvial harbour of Aquileia (Italy), one of the most important Roman trading centres in the Mediterranean, was abandoned after the city's destruction in 452 AD. The deserted harbour evolved into a swamp surrounded by a floodplain that has recorded the anthropogenic, environmental and climatic pressures that have occurred during the last 1500 years in the northern Adriatic. Focusing on the period since 500 AD, we here reconstruct the area's long-term ecosystem dynamics. We show that ecosystem dynamics mainly mirror the climate phases of the pre-industrial era. After the Roman era, anthropogenic activities (agriculture, pasture and fire activity) declined in scope and amplitude and are chronologically limited (from the late 7th to the early 13th centuries AD), acting as a background pressure on ecosystems. The main non-human impacts recorded by ecosystems correspond to the Late Antique Little Ice Age, defined by an average temperature anomaly of −2.04 ± 0.17 °C, exceeding the Pre-industrial Little Ice Age by −1.26 ± 0.16 °C in severity. The temperatures reconstructed for the Medieval Climate Anomaly are close to those recorded for the 20th century AD (average anomaly of 0.08 ± 0.15 °C) but they differ from the 21st century AD, according to the CRUTEM4 data. Aquileia shows that ancient harbours are key areas to understand how climate and human societies have shaped northern Adriatic environments since the post-Roman period.

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2022
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7. Late Holocene relative sea‐level fluctuations and crustal mobility at Bataneh (Najirum) archaeological site, Persian Gulf, Iran

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Sedighe Amjadi, Mohammad Esmaeili Jelodar, Morteza Djamali, Christophe Morhange, Nick Marriner, Majid Pourkerman, Hossein Tofighian, Hamid Lahijani, Abdolmajid Naderi Beni, Matteo Vacchi, Giorgio Spada, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences (INIOAS), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra [Pisa], University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Tarbiat Modares University [Tehran], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Institute of Archaeology of Iran, Tehran, Center of International ScientificStudies and Collaborations (CISSC), the Iran National ScienceFoundation (INSF Grant Number: 94‐44915), the French Embassyin Iran, Campus France (PHC GUNDISHAPUR 2016–2017, ProjectNumber: 35630QH, Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)Finanziamento delle At-tivita Base di RicercaCentre National de Recherche ScientifiqueLabex OT-MedFrench Embassy in Iran, Campus FranceIran National Science Foundation (INSF)International Scientific Studies and Collaborations, ANR-11-LABX-0061,OTMed,Objectif Terre : Bassin Méditerranéen(2011), Pourkerman, Majid, Marriner, Nick, Morhange, Christophe, Djamali, Morteza, Lahijani, Hamid, Amjadi, Sedighe, Vacchi, Matteo, Jelodar, Mohammad E., Spada, Giorgio, Tofighian, Hossein, Beni, Abdolmajid N., Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Avignon Université (AU), Department of Archaeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia (DIFA), Università di Bologna

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ancient harbour, crustal mobility, geoarchaology, Najirum, Persian Gulf, relative sea level, 010506 paleontology, Archeology, Fluvial, 01 natural sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), 0601 history and archaeology, 14. Life underwater, ancient harbour, crustal mobility, geoarchaology, Najirum, Persian Gulf, relative sea level, Sea level, Holocene, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, 060102 archaeology, Flooding (psychology), Crust, 06 humanities and the arts, Diapir, Debris, Oceanography, Facies, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, Geology
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International audience; The impacts of relative sea‐level (RSL) variations and crust mobility on the development of ancient harbours in the northern Persian Gulf are poorly understood. Many unanswered questions remain with regard to the main reasons for a shift in the location of the most important ancient harbours in the northern part of the Persian Gulf coastal since 50 BC. Furthermore, some important early Islamic harbours, such as Siraf, have ancient city quarters that are today below the present sea level. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between halokinesis and RSL changes using geophysical models and multidisciplinary geoarchaeological methods at the ancient Sassanid–Islamic site of Bataneh (presently known as Najirum) located at the foothill of an active Darang salt diapir. The results reveal that after the mid‐Holocene highstand, RSL regression was not continuous. The studied facies have recorded three RSL oscillations. The oscillations are correlated with the eustatic sea‐level position. During the first lowstand, important Sassanid harbours shifted from Rishar to Apologus. The second lowstand is consistent with the transition of maritime trade from Apologus to Siraf, during the Abbasid dynasty. Uplift of the Bataneh coastal zone exposed the city to risks from flooding and fluvial debris flows. With a modification of the local watershed, runoff water originating from the salt anticlinal was controlled and used for the extraction of gypsum in evaporation ponds. The economic expansion of Siraf led to Bataneh being abandoned with a shift in trade to Kish Island

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2021
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8. Mid- to late-Holocene sea-level evolution of the northeastern Aegean sea

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Anca Dan, Giorgio Spada, Martin Seeliger, Katharina Seeger, Helmut Brückner, Nick Marriner, Matteo Vacchi, Peter Frenzel, Thomas Schmidts, Friederike Seeger, Sait Başaran, Anna Pint, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany], Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra [Pisa], University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBU), Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident (AOROC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hellénismes d’Asie et civilisations orientales, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Universität zu Köln, Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Seeliger, Martin, Pint, Anna, Frenzel, Peter, Marriner, Nick, Spada, Giorgio, Vacchi, Matteo, Başaran, Sait, Dan, Anca, Seeger, Friederike, Seeger, Katharina, Schmidts, Thoma, Brückner, Helmut, and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

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010506 paleontology, Archeology, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Paleontology, ddc:550, archeological sea-level limiting points, 14. Life underwater, Trough (meteorology), ddc:930, Sea level, Holocene, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, ddc:910, Global and Planetary Change, geography, Plateau, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, Meriç River, Subsidence, Post-glacial rebound, RSL curve, Tectonics, sea-level indicator, archeological sea-level limiting points, foraminifers, Meriç River, RSL curve, sea-level indicator, [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy, Facies, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, foraminifers, Geology
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International audience; We combined biostratigraphical analyses, archaeological surveys, and Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) models to provide new insights into the relative sea-level evolution in the northeastern Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean). In this area, characterized by a very complex tectonic pattern, we produced a new typology of sea-level index point, based on the foraminiferal associations found in transgressive marine facies. Our results agree with the sea-level history previously produced in this region, therefore confirming the validity of this new type of index point. The expanded dataset presented in this paper further demonstrates a continuous Holocene RSL rise in this portion of the Aegean Sea. Comparing the new RSL record with the available geophysical predictions of sea-level evolution indicates that the crustal subsidence of the Samothraki Plateau and the North Aegean Trough played a major role in controlling millennial-scale sea-level evolution in the area. This major subsidence rate needs to be taken into account in the preparation of local future scenarios of sea-level rise in the coming decades.

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2021
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9. Millennial variability of rates of sea-level rise in the ancient harbour of Naples (Italy, western Mediterranean Sea)

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Valentino Di Donato, Vittoria Carsana, Elda Russo Ermolli, Giulia Boetto, Matteo Vacchi, Nick Marriner, Giuliana Boenzi, Aldo Cinque, Daniela Giampaola, Maria Rosaria Ruello, Pierre Poveda, Viviana Liuzza, Mauro A. Di Vito, Christophe Morhange, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse (DiSTAR), Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Sezione di Napoli (INGV), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Centre Camille Jullian - Histoire et archéologie de la Méditerranée et de l'Afrique du Nord de la protohistoire à la fin de l'Antiquité (CCJ), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Vacchi, Matteo, Russo Ermolli, Elda, Morhange, Christophe, Ruello, Maria R., Di Donato, Valentino, Di Vito, Mauro A., Giampaola, Daniela, Carsana, Vittoria, Liuzza, Viviana, Cinque, Aldo, Boetto, Giulia, Poveda, Pierre, Boenzi, Giuliana, and Marriner, Nick

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Mediterranean climate, Méditerranée, 010506 paleontology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Geo-archeology, Sea-level changes, Ancient harbours, Naples, Volcano-tectonics, Mediterranean Sea, Parthenope-Neapolis, Structural basin, port, 01 natural sciences, paléoenvironnement, Mediterranean sea, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Sea-level change, Antiquité romaine, 14. Life underwater, Sea level, Holocene, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, computer.programming_language, niveau marin, Subsidence, Naple, Volcano-tectonic, 13. Climate action, Harbour, Period (geology), General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Naples (Italie), Physical geography, Ancient harbour, computer, Geology
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We reconstructed the late Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) evolution of the ancient harbour of Naples, one of the largest coastal conurbations in the Mediterranean. We carried out multiproxy investigations, coupling archaeological evidence with biological indicators. Our data robustly constrain 2000 yr of non-monotonic changes in sea level, chiefly controlled by the complex volcano-tectonic processes that characterize the area. Between ~200 BC and AD ~0, a subsidence rate of more than ~1.5 mm/yr enhanced the postglacial RSL rise, while negligible or moderate land uplift < ~0.5 mm/yr triggered a RSL stabilization during the Roman period (first five centuries AD). This stabilization was followed by a post-Roman enhancement of the sea-level rise when ground motion was negative, attested by a subsidence rate of ~0.5 to ~1 mm/yr. Our analysis seems to indicate very minor impacts of this nonmonotonic RSL evolution on the activities of the ancient harbour of Naples, which peaked from the third century BC to the second century AD. After this period, the progressive silting of the harbour basin made it impossible to safely navigate within the basin, leading to the progressive decline of the harbour.

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2020
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10. Multiproxy assessment of Holocene relative sea-level changes in the western Mediterranean: Sea-level variability and improvements in the definition of the isostatic signal

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Nick Marriner, Alessandro Fontana, Alessio Rovere, Christophe Morhange, Matteo Vacchi, Giorgio Spada, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - UFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] (MARUM), Universität Bremen, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement de géosciences de l'environnement ( CEREGE ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ( IRD ) -Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Collège de France ( CdF ) -Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), MARUM, Universität Bremen Postfach, Vacchi, Matteo, Marriner, Nick, Morhange, Christophe, SPADA, GIORGIO, Fontana, Alessandro, and Rovere, Alessio

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Mediterranean climate, Isostasy, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Antarctic ice sheet, Context (language use), Sea-level database, Sea level, Isostasy, Mediterranean Sea, Holocene, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mediterranean sea, Isostatic adjustment, Settore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia, Mediterranean Sea, Sea level, Holocene, Sea-level proxy, [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology, 14. Life underwater, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Beachrock, [ SDU.STU.GM ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (all), Oceanography, 13. Climate action, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Spatial variability, Geology
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A review of 917 relative sea-level (RSL) data-points has resulted in the first quality-controlled database constraining the Holocene sea-level histories of the western Mediterranean Sea (Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Malta and Tunisia). We reviewed and standardized the geological RSL data-points using a new multi-proxy methodology based on: (1) modern taxa assemblages in Mediterranean lagoons and marshes; (2) beachrock characteristics (cement fabric and chemistry, sedimentary structures); and (3) the modern distribution of Mediterranean fixed biological indicators. These RSL data-points were coupled with the large number of archaeological RSL indicators available for the western Mediterranean. We assessed the spatial variability of RSL histories for 22 regions and compared these with the ICE-5G (VM2) GIA model. In the western Mediterranean, RSL rose continuously for the whole Holocene with a sudden slowdown at ~ 7.5 ka BP and a further deceleration during the last ~ 4.0 ka BP, after which time observed RSL changes are mainly related to variability in isostatic adjustment. The sole exception is southern Tunisia, where data show evidence of a mid-Holocene high-stand compatible with the isostatic impacts of the melting history of the remote Antarctic ice sheet. Our results indicate that late-Holocene sea-level rise was significantly slower than the current one. First estimates of GIA contribution indicate that, at least in the northwestern sector, it accounts at least for the 25–30% of the ongoing sea-level rise recorded by Mediterranean tidal gauges. Such contribution is less constrained at lower latitudes due to the lower quality of the late Holocene index points. Future applications of spatio-temporal statistical techniques are required to better quantify the gradient of the isostatic contribution and to provide improved context for the assessment of 20th century acceleration of Mediterranean sea-level rise.

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2016
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11. New relative sea-level insights into the isostatic history of the Western Mediterranean

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Matthieu Giaime, Rita Teresa Melis, Francesc Burjachs, Giorgio Spada, Christophe Morhange, Nick Marriner, Matteo Vacchi, Thomas Lorscheid, Alessio Rovere, Matthieu Ghilardi, Vacchi, Matteo, Ghilardi, Matthieu, Melis, Rita T., Spada, Giorgio, Giaime, Matthieu, Marriner, Nick, Lorscheid, Thoma, Morhange, Christophe, Burjachs, Francesc, Rovere, Alessio, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), European Project: 609412,EC:FP7:PEOPLE,FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND,DIFERENS2(2014), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Mediterranean climate, Archeology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Mediterranean Sea 1. Introduction, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, government.political_district, Context (language use), 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean sea, vertical crustal motion, Settore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia, 14. Life underwater, Glacial period, mediterranean sea, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sea level, Holocene, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Balearic islands, Geology, isostatic adjustment, government, Sea-level changes Isostatic adjustment Vertical crustal motion Holocene Mediterranean sea, holocene, Physical geography, sea-level changes
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International audience; A recent suite of Relative Sea-Level (RSL) data for the past 12 ka BP has provided new insights into the sea-level histories of the western Mediterranean region. Our analysis of the chronostratigraphic context of sea-level indicators from Spain (Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Gulf of Valencia), France (Corsica Island) and Italy (Sardinia Island) has yielded 162 new sea-level index and limiting points. These data have considerably enhanced previous RSL compilations, in addition to improving the quality of spatio-temporal sea-level reconstructions and our capacity to estimate isostatic-related vertical motions in the western Mediterranean basin. The glacial and hydro-isostatic adjustment (GIA) pattern elucidated by the new database shows discrepancy with respect to those predicted by the available GIA models. In particular, the new results underscore a non-coherent isostatic response of the central portion of the western Mediterranean, with the Balearic Islands manifesting significant departures from the sea-level histories of Corsica, Sardinia and, more generally, along most of the western Mediterranean coast. Our results are a crucial contribution to defining both the pattern and the magnitude of the isostatic signal along the western Mediterranean coast. In fact, vertical isostatic motions represent a key to better assess any possible post-industrial acceleration in sea-level rise and to define future scenarios of coastal inundation in the context of global change.

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2018
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12. New insights into the sea-level evolution in Corsica (NW Mediterranean) since the late Neolithic

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Matthieu Ghilardi, Matteo Vacchi, Giorgio Spada, Sébastien Robresco, Andrés Currás, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Vacchi, Matteo, Ghilardi, Matthieu, SPADA, GIORGIO, Currás, André, Robresco, Sébastien, and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

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Mediterranean climate, Archeology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Paleo-environment, Corsica, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, Bronze Age, 14. Life underwater, Radiocarbon dating, Coastal geo-archaeology Relative sea level, Holocene, Sea level, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Beachrock, Chalcolithic, Northwestern Mediterranean Neolithic, Archaeology, Period (geology), Physical geography, Geology
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International audience; A new dataset of 16 C-14 radiocarbon dates better constrains Relative Sea Level (RSL) changes in Corsica Island since the late Neolithic (similar to 3.6 ka BCE). Conflicting Holocene RSL histories between the northern and southern portions of Corsica coast are presently available in literature. Here we provide new RSL data obtained by sediment coring and beachrock analysis performed along the eastern coast of the island. These data, coupled with previously available ones, were compared with the predicted RSL variations modelled by means of the sea-level equation solver SELEN. Data from different coastal sectors of Corsica indicate a coherent pattern of RSL since the late Neolithic when the RSL was placed similar to 3.8 m below the present mean sea level. Then sea-level rose at rate of similar to 2 mm a(-1) in the Chalcolithic period (similar to 3.5 and similar to 2.3 ka BCE) followed by a significant deceleration with rates

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2017
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13. Reply to comment by Evelpidu N., and Pirazzoli P. on 'Tidal notches in the Mediterranean sea: A comprehensive analysis'

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F. Antonioli (a), V. Lo Presti( b, A. Rovere (c, L. Ferranti (e), M. Anzidei (f), S.Furlani (g), G.Mastronuzzi (h), P. E. Orru (i), G.Scicchitano (j), G. Sannino (a), C. R. Spampinato (k), R. Pagliarulo (l), G. Deiana (i), E. de Sabata (m), P. Sansò ( n), M. Vacchi (o), A. Vecchio (f), Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] (MARUM), Universität Bremen, ENEA, Ocean modelling unit, Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile = Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Antonioli, Fabrizio, Presti, Valeria Lo, Rovere, Alessio, Ferranti, Luigi, Anzidei, Marco, Furlani, Stefano, Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe, Orrù, Paolo E., Scicchitano, Giovanni, Sannino, Gianmaria, Spampinato, Cecilia R., Pagliarulo, Rossella, Deiana, Giacomo, de Sabata, Eleonora, Sansò, Paolo, Vacchi, Matteo, Vecchio, Antonio, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Antonioli, F., Lo Presti, V., Rovere, A., Anzidei, M., Furlani, S., Mastronuzzi, G., Orrù, P., Scicchitano, G., Sannino, G., Spampinato, C. R., Pagliarulo, R., Deiana, G., de Sabata, E., Sansò, P., Vacchi, M., Vecchio, A., and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

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Behavior and Systematic, 010506 paleontology, Archeology, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Evolution, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Archeology (arts and humanities), Geology, Tidal notches, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, 01 natural sciences, Mediterranean sea, Behavior and Systematics, Mediterranean Sea, 14. Life underwater, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Holocene, Ecology, Relative sea level rise, M Evolution, Oceanography, Climatology
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We take the chance offered by the comment of Evelpidou and Pirazzoli (2015a) to our paper (Antonioli et al., 2015) to clarify some aspects of our work. We reinforce our statement that a present-day tidal notch is almost continuously developed along much of the central Mediterranean coast.

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2016
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14. Tidal notches in Mediterranean Sea: A comprehensive analysis

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Valeria Lo Presti, Paolo Sansò, Paolo E. Orrù, Matteo Vacchi, Rossella Pagliarulo, Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Marco Anzidei, Giovanni Scicchitano, Eleonora de Sabata, Cecilia Rita Spampinato, Fabrizio Antonioli, Stefano Furlani, Gianmaria Sannino, A. Vecchio, Alessio Rovere, Giacomo Deiana, Luigi Ferranti, Antonioli, Fabrizio, Lo Presti, Valeria, Rovere, Alessio, Ferranti, Luigi, Anzidei, Marco, Furlani, Stefano, Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe, Orru, Paolo E., Scicchitano, Giovanni, Sannino, Gianmaria, Spampinato, Cecilia R., Pagliarulo, Rossella, Deiana, Giacomo, de Sabata, Eleonora, Sansò, Paolo, Vacchi, Matteo, Vecchio, Antonio, Sanso', Paolo, Sannino, G., Lo Presti, V., and Antonioli, F.

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Holocene, Mediterranean Sea, Relative sea level rise, Tidal notches, Archeology, Evolution, Lithology, Mediterranean sea, Behavior and Systematics, Wind wave, Settore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia, Tidal notches, Mediterranean Sea, Relative sea level rise, Holocene, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, Archeology (arts and humanities), Lead (sea ice), Bioerosion, Geology, Tidal notche, Karst, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematic, Oceanography, Tide gauge
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Recent works (Evelpidou et al., 2012) suggest that the modern tidal notch is disappearing worldwide due sea level rise over the last century. In order to assess this hypothesis, we measured modern tidal notches in several of sites along the Mediterranean coasts. We report observations on tidal notches cut along carbonate coasts from 73 sites from Italy, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Malta and Spain, plus additional observations carried outside the Mediterranean. At each site, we measured notch width and depth, and we described the characteristics of the biological rim at the base of the notch. We correlated these parameters with wave energy, tide gauge datasets and rock lithology.Our results suggest that, considering 'the development of tidal notches the consequence of midlittoral bioerosion' (as done in Evelpidou et al., 2012) is a simplification that can lead to misleading results, such as stating that notches are disappearing. Important roles in notch formation can be also played by wave action, rate of karst dissolution, salt weathering and wetting and drying cycles. Of course notch formation can be augmented and favoured also by bioerosion which can, in particular cases, be the main process of notch formation and development.Our dataset shows that notches are carved by an ensemble rather than by a single process, both today and in the past, and that it is difficult, if not impossible, to disentangle them and establish which one is prevailing. We therefore show that tidal notches are still forming, challenging the hypothesis that sea level rise has drowned them. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.

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2015
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