Eastern Mediterranean foraminiferal palaeoecological response to Mid-Late Pliocene climatic regime: A preliminary note.

The main objective of this work is to investigate the climatic influence on the sedimentation during mid to late Pliocene in Cyprus island. For this reason, a section located in Pissouri sub-basin, southern Cyprus, was chosen to be studied. The section comprises a nearly uninterrupted succession of marine sediments, dominated by grey marls, which are cyclically alternating with yellowish silty marls. The identification of age diagnostic planktonic foraminifera suggests a mid to upper Pliocene age. The calculated faunal parameters document cyclic fluctuations consistent with shifts in such climate belts. A good age resolution of the cycles and an indication of sedimentation rate would be required in order to connect cyclicity to orbital perturbations.

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Relation between sedimentation rate and burial of organic phosphorus and organic carbon in marine sediments

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ◽

10.1016/0016-7037(90)90326-g ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 373-386 ◽

Cited By ~ 199

Author(s):

Ellery D Ingall ◽

Philippe Van Cappellen

Keyword(s):

Organic Carbon ◽

Marine Sediments ◽

Sedimentation Rate ◽

Organic Phosphorus

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Paleoenvironmental changes at the Messinian–Pliocene boundary in the eastern Mediterranean (southern Cyprus basins): significance of the Messinian Lago-Mare

Sedimentary Geology ◽

10.1016/s0037-0738(01)00126-9 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 145 (1-2) ◽

pp. 93-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 103

Author(s):

J.M. Rouchy ◽

F. Orszag-Sperber ◽

M.-M. Blanc-Valleron ◽

C. Pierre ◽

M. Rivière ◽

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Keyword(s):

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Paleoenvironmental Changes ◽

Southern Cyprus

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PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON SEDIMENT CORE FROM THE TYRO BASIN

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece ◽

10.12681/bgsg.11733 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 324

Author(s):

M. Geraga ◽

Ch. Anagnostou ◽

I. Iliopoulos ◽

M. Kontali

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Sediment Core ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Planktonic Foraminifera ◽

Mineralogical Composition ◽

Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽

Sediment Samples ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

The Core ◽

Mineral Constituents

The present paper summarizes the preliminary results of the mineralogical and micropaleontological analysis conducted on sediment samples from core TYR05 retrieved from the anoxic and hypersaline Tyro basin in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The core comprises a complex lithostratigraphic sequence attributed to the strong geodynamic regime of the area. The planktonic foraminifera associations present fluctuations which coincide with changes in the lithology of the core. The mineralogical composition of the sediments shows influence from the evaporites developed on the bottom of the basin. The mineral constituents in association to the microfauna assemblages suggest that the sediments include sapropelic layers. Further analyses are needed in order to determine safely the sapropelic deposits.

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Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Pliocene-Pleistocene marine sediments from Rhodos, eastern Mediterranean

Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors ◽

10.1016/0031-9201(89)90251-3 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 54 (3-4) ◽

pp. 340-352 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Reidar Løvlie ◽

Geir Støle ◽

Nils Spjeldnæs

Keyword(s):

Marine Sediments ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Magnetic Polarity

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Key Environmental Factors Controlling Planktonic Foraminiferal and Pteropod Community’s Response to Late Quaternary Hydroclimate Changes in the South Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean)

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse8090709 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 709

Author(s):

Christina Giamali ◽

George Kontakiotis ◽

Efterpi Koskeridou ◽

Chryssanthi Ioakim ◽

Assimina Antonarakou

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Environmental Changes ◽

Late Quaternary ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Planktonic Foraminifera ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Principal Component ◽

Aegean Sea ◽

Late Glacial ◽

The South

A multidisciplinary study was conducted in order to investigate the environmental factors affecting the planktonic foraminiferal and pteropod communities of the south Aegean Sea. Aspects of the Late Quaternary paleoceanographic evolution were revealed by means of quantitative analyses of planktonic foraminiferal and pteropod assemblages (including multivariate statistical approach; principal component analysis (PCA)), the oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13C) isotopic composition of planktonic foraminifera and related paleoceanographic (planktonic paleoclimatic curve (PPC), productivity (E-index), stratification (S-index), seasonality) indices, extracted by the gravity core KIM-2A derived from the submarine area between Kimolos and Sifnos islands. Focusing on the last ~21 calibrated thousands of years before present (ka BP), cold and eutrophicated conditions were identified during the Late Glacial period (21.1–15.7 ka BP) and were followed by warmer and wetter conditions during the deglaciation phase. The beginning of the Holocene was marked by a climatic amelioration and increased seasonality. The more pronounced environmental changes were identified during the deposition of the sapropel sublayers S1a (9.4–7.7 ka BP) and S1b (6.9–6.4 ka BP), with extremely warm and stratified conditions. Pteropod fauna during the sapropel deposition were recorded for the first time in the south Aegean Sea, suggesting arid conditions towards the end of S1a. Besides sea surface temperature (SST), which shows the highest explanatory power for the distribution of the analyzed fauna, water column stratification, primary productivity, and seasonality also control their communities during the Late Quaternary.

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