scholarly journals Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the Western Mediterranean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciro Cerrone ◽  
Matteo Vacchi ◽  
Alessandro Fontana ◽  
Alessio Rovere
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Marine Isotopic Stage

Abstract. We describe a database of Last Interglacial (Marine Isotopic Stage 5) sea-level proxies for the Western Mediterranean region. The database was compiled reviewing the information reported in 179 published studies and contains 371 sea-level datapoints (sea-level index points and marine or terrestrial limiting points) and 304 associated dated samples. The database follows the standardized WALIS template and is available as Cerrone et al, 2021b (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4497365).

scholarly journals Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4485-4527
Author(s):  
Ciro Cerrone ◽  
Matteo Vacchi ◽  
Alessandro Fontana ◽  
Alessio Rovere
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Marine Isotopic Stage ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Data Points

Abstract. We describe a database of Last Interglacial (Marine Isotopic Stage 5) sea-level proxies for the western Mediterranean region. The database was compiled reviewing the information reported in 199 published studies and contains 396 sea-level data points (sea-level index points and marine- or terrestrial-limiting points) and 401 associated dated samples. The database follows the standardized WALIS template and is available as Cerrone et al. (2021b, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5341661).

A highly resolved record of relative sea level in the western Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 860-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor J. Polyak ◽  
Bogdan P. Onac ◽  
Joan J. Fornós ◽  
Carling Hay ◽  
Yemane Asmerom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Interglacial Period ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Last Interglacial Period

The Last Interglacial Sea Level database for the Western Mediterranean 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciro Cerrone ◽  
Matteo Vacchi ◽  
Alessandro Fontana ◽  
Alessio Rovere
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Amino Acid Racemization ◽  
Marine Deposits ◽  
Marine Terraces ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Open Access Database ◽  
Mis 5E

<p>An open access database containing raw data of Last Interglacial sea-level proxies for the Western Mediterranean has been compiled by reviewing hundreds of original published papers in accordance with the WALIS template (https://warmcoasts.eu/world-atlas.html). WALIS allows collecting both the relative sea-level (RSL) indicators and ages data in a standardized format. Ca. 360 sea-level index points for the coasts of Spain, France, Italy, Albania, Algeria and Morocco have been included in the database. The sea-level index points of the database are related to ca. 350 samples dated by a wide range of dating techniques, e.g., U-series, Amino Acid Racemization, Luminescence (Tl/OSL) and Electron Spin Resonance methods or chronostratigraphically correlated to marine deposits bearing P. latus and “Senegalese fauna”. In fact, for some areas of the Mediterranean Sea, the “Senegalese fauna” is indicative of the MIS 5e.</p><p>Among the eleven types of sea-level indicators of our database, the majority of them are represented by marine terraces, beach deposits (or beachrocks), and tidal notches. Whenever the relationship between the RSL indicators and the former sea-level could not be quantified, such indicators have been considered as marine or terrestrial limiting points. An indirect age of the tidal notches has been provided by correlation with the nearby dated deposit. In the case no precise elevation information has been reported by the Authors, the elevation error of RSL datapoints has been reassessed in the 20 % of the elevation value, more a 5% if the sea-level datum was lacking in the scientific papers we have reviewed.  Overall, the quality of each RSL datapoints and the associated age have been ranked in a 0 to 5 scale score according to Rovere et al., (2020).</p><p> </p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Rovere, A., Ryan, D., Murray-Wallace, C., Simms, A., Vacchi, M., Dutton, A., Gowan, E., 2020. Descriptions of database fields for the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS) (Version 1,0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961544</p>

scholarly journals Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Boyden ◽  
Jennifer Weil-Accardo ◽  
Pierre Deschamps ◽  
Davide Oppo ◽  
Alessio Rovere
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Marine Isotopic Stage ◽  
The North ◽  
Aeolian Deposits ◽  
Marine Terraces ◽  
Data Points

Abstract. In this paper, we describe a sea-level database compiled using published Last Interglacial, Marine Isotopic Stage 5 (MIS 5), geological sea-level proxies within Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean (EAWIO). Encompassing vast tropical coastlines and coralline islands, this region has many occurrences of well preserved last interglacial stratigraphies. Most notably, islands almost entirely composed by Pleistocene reefs (such as Aldabra, the Seychelles) have provided reliable paleo relative sea-level indicators and well-preserved samples for U-series chronology. Other sea-level proxies include uplifted marine terraces in the north of Somalia and tidal notches in luminescence limited aeolian deposits in Mozambique. Our database has been compiled using the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS) interface and contains 57 sea-level indicators and 2 terrestrial limiting data points. The database is available open access at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4043366 (Version 1.02) (Boyden et al., 2020).

PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE SPELEOTHEM-BASED SEA LEVEL SNAPSHOTS FROM THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana-Alexandra Dumitru ◽  
◽  
Jacqueline Austermann ◽  
Victor J. Polyak ◽  
Joan J. Fornós ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean

Potential of Arabic documentary sources for reconstructing past climate in the western Mediterranean region from AD 680 to 1815

The Holocene ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 095968362110332
Author(s):  
Yassin Meklach ◽  
Chantal Camenisch ◽  
Abderrahmane Merzouki ◽  
Ricardo Garcia Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Drought Conditions ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Climate Proxies

Archival records and historical documents offer direct observation of weather and atmospheric conditions and have the highest temporal and spatial resolution, and precise dating, of the available climate proxies. They also provide information about variables such as temperature, precipitation and climate extremes, as well as floods, droughts and storms. The present work studied Arab-Islamic documentary sources covering the western Mediterranean region (documents written by Arab-Islamic historians that narrate social, political and religious history) available for the period AD 680–1815. They mostly provide information on hydrometeorological events. In Iberia the most intense droughts were reported during AD 747–753, AD 814–822, AD 846–847, AD 867–874 and AD 914–915 and in the Maghreb AD 867–873, AD 898–915, AD 1104–1147, AD 1280–1340 and AD 1720–1815 had prevalent drought conditions. Intense rain episodes are also reported.

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