1. 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 - Abstract
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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