Climate pacing of millennial sea-level change variability in the central and western Mediterranean

AbstractFuture warming in the Mediterranean is expected to significantly exceed global values with unpredictable implications on the sea-level rise rates in the coming decades. Here, we apply an empirical-Bayesian spatio-temporal statistical model to a dataset of 401 sea-level index points from the central and western Mediterranean and reconstruct rates of sea-level change for the past 10,000 years. We demonstrate that the mean rates of Mediterranean industrial-era sea-level rise have been significantly faster than any other period since ~4000 years ago. We further highlight a previously unrecognized variability in Mediterranean sea-level change rates. In the Common Era, this variability correlates with the occurrence of major regional-scale cooling/warming episodes. Our data show a sea-level stabilization during the Late Antique Little Ice Age cold event, which interrupted a general rising trend of ~0.45 mm a−1 that characterized the warming episodes of the Common Era. By contrast, the Little Ice Age cold event had only minor regional effects on Mediterranean sea-level change rates.

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Relative sea-level change in Greenland during the last 700yrs and ice sheet response to the Little Ice Age

Earth and Planetary Science Letters ◽

10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.027 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 315-316 ◽

pp. 76-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Antony J. Long ◽

Sarah A. Woodroffe ◽

Glenn A. Milne ◽

Charlotte L. Bryant ◽

Matthew J.R. Simpson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Little Ice Age ◽

Ice Sheet ◽

Sea Level Change ◽

Ice Age ◽

Relative Sea Level ◽

Level Change

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The Norse in Greenland and late Holocene sea-level change

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s0032247407006948 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 45-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Naja Mikkelsen ◽

Antoon Kuijpers ◽

Jette Arneborg

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Little Ice Age ◽

Late Holocene ◽

Ice Age ◽

Documentary Evidence ◽

Sea Level Changes ◽

Middle Holocene ◽

Level Change ◽

Farming Community ◽

Holocene Sea Level

ABSTRACTNorse immigrants from Europe settled in southern Greenland in around AD 985 and managed to create a farming community during the Medieval Warm Period. The Norse vanished after approximately 500 years of existence in Greenland leaving no documentary evidence concerning why their culture foundered. The flooding of fertile grassland caused by late Holocene sea-level changes may be one of the factors that affected the Norse community. Holocene sea-level changes in Greenland are closely connected with the isostatic response of the Earth's crust to the behaviour of the Greenlandic ice sheet. An early Holocene regressive phase in south and west Greenland was reversed during the middle Holocene, and evidence is found for transgression and drowning of early-middle Holocene coast lines. This drowning started between 8 and 7ka BP in southern Greenland and continued during the Norse era to the present. An average late Holocene sea level rise in the order of 2–3 m/1000 years may be one of the factors that negatively affected the life of the Norse Greenlanders, and combined with other both socio-economic and environmental problems, such as increasing wind and sea ice expansion at the transition to the Little Ice Age, may eventually have led to the end of the Norse culture in Greenland.

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A comparison of observed and theoretical postglacial relative sea level in Atlantic Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e81-109 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 1146-1163 ◽

Cited By ~ 104

Author(s):

Garry Quinlan ◽

Christopher Beaumont

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Field Data ◽

Sea Level Change ◽

Atlantic Canada ◽

Relative Sea Level ◽

Level Curves ◽

Level Change ◽

The Common ◽

Late Wisconsinan ◽

Outermost Zone

Two extreme models of late Wisconsinan ice cover in Atlantic Canada and the northeastern U.S.A. are shown to produce postglacial relative sea level curves that bracket existing field observations at six sites throughout the region. This suggests that the true late Wisconsinan ice distribution is probably intermediate to the two contrasting reconstructions proposed. Both ice models predict the existence of four relative sea level zones: an innermost zone closest to the centre of glaciation in which relative sea level falls continuously throughout postglacial time; an outermost zone in which it rises continuously; and two transitional zones in which it first falls and then rises in varying proportions according to the distance from the ice margin. The distinctive forms of the relative sea level curves are probably representative of each of the zones and are unlikely to be significantly perturbed even by large local ice readvances. They, therefore, establish patterns with which future field data are expected to conform. The form that the geological record of relative sea level change is likely to take within each zone is discussed and promising settings for the collection of new data are proposed. The common practice of separating relative sea level into an isostatic and a eustatic component is analysed and shown to be incorrect as usually applied. The practice is also shown to be unnecessary because the models discussed in this paper predict changes in relative sea level that can be compared directly with the observations.

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Incorporating sediment compaction into a gravitationally self-consistent model for ice age sea-level change

Geophysical Journal International ◽

10.1093/gji/ggx293 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 211 (1) ◽

pp. 663-672 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ken L. Ferrier ◽

Jacqueline Austermann ◽

Jerry X. Mitrovica ◽

Tamara Pico

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Sea Level Change ◽

Ice Age ◽

Level Change ◽

Sediment Compaction ◽

Consistent Model ◽

Self Consistent

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POTENSI ARKEOLOGI LANSKAP BAWAH AIR INDONESIA

KALPATARU ◽

10.24832/kpt.v28i1.575 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

Shinatria Adhityatama ◽

Ajeng Salma Yarista

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Field Survey ◽

Sea Level Change ◽

Human Migration ◽

Ice Age ◽

Sunda Shelf ◽

Archaeological Data ◽

Level Change ◽

Shelf Sea ◽

And Migration

Indonesia has a great potential to be a country-wide laboratory of underwater landscape study. This is due to the fact that its two main contingents, Sunda and Sahul, had been experiencing sea level rise event in the late of ice age which intersected the timeline of prehistoric human migration. Even though Indonesian ocean preserves the richness of underwater resources, including archaeological data, the study itself has not been touched by many. This paper will focus in two objectives: 1) Reconstructing paleo-river model and;2) Potential prehistoric remnants in Misool Islands caves. The method used includes field survey by diving and data brackets by using sub-bottom profiler. Besides, we also conducted literature reviews.The results of this study indicate that the Sunda and Sahul Exposures are likely to be inhabited by humans, but at this time the remains have sunk on the seabed. It is hoped that this study can be the basis and motivation for future archeological research such as prehistoric human settlements and migration in a submerged landscape environment.Keywords:Submerged landscape, Sunda shelf, Sahul shelf, Sea-level change, Underwater archaeologyIndonesia memiliki potensi yang besar untuk menjadi sebuah laboratorium penelitian lanskap bawah air. Gagasan ini didasarkan pada fakta bahwa dua kontingen yang membentuk Indonesia, Paparan Sunda dan Sahul, mengalami perubahan air laut pada akhir zaman es yang bersinggungan dengan migrasi manusia prasejarah. Walaupun lautan Indonesia menyimpan kekayaan alam, termasuk data arkeologi, penelitian tentang lanskap bawah laut belum banyak disentuh. Studi ini bertujuan untuk membahas dua hal: 1) rekonstruksi model sungai purba dan;2) potensi peninggalan jejak prasejarah di gua bawah air di Pulau Misool. Metode yang digunakan adalah melakukan survei lapangan, dengan melakukan penyelaman dan perkeman data menggunakan alat akustik sub-bottom profiler, selain itu kami juga melakukan kajian dan review pustaka. Hasil studi ini menunjukkan bahwa Paparan Sunda dan Sahul kemungkinan besar telah dihuni oleh manusia namun pada saat ini peninggalannya telah tenggelam di dasar laut, diharapkan kajian ini dapat menjadi dasar dan motivasi untuk riset arkeologi mendatang seperti hunian dan migrasi manusia prasejarah pada lingkungan lanskap yang tenggelam.Kata kunci: Lanskap bawah air, Paparan sunda, Paparan sahul, Perubahan tinggi air laut, Arkeologi bawah air

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