Climate change, rifting, and landscape evolution in the Ross Embayment

Eos ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 74 (43) ◽  
pp. 490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick van der Wateren ◽  
Anja L. L. M. Verbers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Landscape Evolution

scholarly journals Observations on Palaeogeographical Evolution of Akrotiri Salt Lake, Lemesos, Cyprus

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Miltiadis Polidorou ◽  
Niki Evelpidou ◽  
Theodora Tsourou ◽  
Hara Drinia ◽  
Ferréol Salomon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Landscape Evolution ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Active Tectonics ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Progressive Change ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Holocene Sediment ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Akrotiri Salt Lake is located 5 km west of the city of Lemesos in the southernmost part of the island of Cyprus. The evolution of the Akrotiri Salt Lake is of great scientific interest, occurring during the Holocene when eustatic and isostatic movements combined with local active tectonics and climate change developed a unique geomorphological environment. The Salt Lake today is a closed lagoon, which is depicted in Venetian maps as being connected to the sea, provides evidence of the geological setting and landscape evolution of the area. In this study, for the first time, we investigated the development of the Akrotiri Salt Lake through a series of three cores which penetrated the Holocene sediment sequence. Sedimentological and micropaleontological analyses, as well as geochronological studies were performed on the deposited sediments, identifying the complexity of the evolution of the Salt Lake and the progressive change of the area from a maritime space to an open bay and finally to a closed salt lake.

scholarly journals Early-Middle Pleistocene Beheading of the River Thames

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin A. Whiteman ◽  
James Rose
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Landscape Evolution ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Glacial Erosion ◽  
Quaternary Period ◽  
Quaternary Climate ◽  
River Capture ◽  
River Thames

ABSTRACT This paper marks the centenary of the first of three articles by W.M. Davis on the beheading of the Thames, beginning with a statement of his capture hypothesis in 1895 and concluding with attempts to explain anomalous misfit streams in 1899 and 1909. It discusses Davis's classic thesis of river capture by slow, long-term landscape evolution and his apparent reluctance to accept the fact of rapid Quaternary climate change. In contrast, recent work based on lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and morphostratigraphy emphasises the dynamism of the Quaternary Period and its influence on river capture. Possible mechanisms for the beheading of the Thames, tectonism, glacial erosion and conventional Davisian river capture, and the timing of the event, are discussed. In conclusion, the paper summarises known and unknown components of the problem of the beheading of the Thames, and discusses the extent of Davis's influence on later Thames studies.

Impact of climate change on landscape evolution over the Bita lake watershed of northwestern Yunnan

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
姚平 YAO Ping ◽  
喻庆国 YU Qingguo ◽  
陈先刚 CHEN Xiangang ◽  
杨宇明 YANG Yuming
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Landscape Evolution ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Northwestern Yunnan
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