Coastal response to climate change: Mediterranean shorelines during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5)

Mauz, Barbara; Fanelli, Fabio; Elmejdoub, Noureddine; Barbieri, Roberto

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.02.021

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“…Sivan et al (1999) tentatively attributed the Strombus buboniusbearing unit in Israel to MIS5e. An OSL age of 113 ± 5 ka for a sequence along the Carmel coast (Mauz et al, 2012) strengthens the chronostratigraphic attribution to MIS5e. If the suggested average age of 110 ± 8 ka from the present study is accepted as an estimate for the time of recrystallization from aragonite to calcite, then this again supports the MIS5e interpretation.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…There are indications for earlier terraces bearing Strombus bubonius (Zazo et al, 2003) but in the central and eastern Mediterranean they have been found only in the MIS5e (Sivan et al, 1999;Bardaji et al, 2009). Dating methods that have been previously applied to Cladocora, Strombus, and other Senegalese species, include U-Th, Amino-Acid Racemisation (AAR), and Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) (Hillaire-Marcel et al, 1996;Hearty et al, 2007;Zazo et al, 2003 and references therein;Bardaji et al, 2009;Mauz et al, 2012). Sivan et al (1999) tentatively attributed the Strombus buboniusbearing unit in Israel to MIS5e.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…has been assigned to MIS5e based on local stratigraphy and correlation to Strombus-bearing units elsewhere in the Mediterranean (see above; Sivan et al (1999), and references therein). A similar unit bearing Senegalese fauna (Zazo et al, 2003(Zazo et al, , 2013Bardaji et al, 2009) has been documented along the Carmel coast of Israel (Galili et al, 2007), where it was dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) to 113 ± 5 ka (Mauz et al, 2012).…”

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“…Such areas include the northern coasts of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia (El-Asmar and Wood, 2000;Mauz et al, 2009Mauz et al, , 2012Elmejdoub et al, 2011). The model could also fit, to some degree, other areas with similar silicate-based lithologies and stratigraphic architecture influenced by Saharan dust deposits.…”

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“…Consequently, detailed chronostratigraphic study can potentially reveal changes in the environmental conditions during the Quaternary (Huntley et al, 1993(Huntley et al, , 1994Rose et al, 1999;Huntley and Prescott, 2001;Preusser et al, 2002;Munyikwa, 2005;Tripaldi and Forman, 2007;Amorosi et al, 2009;Fitzsimmons et al, 2009;Roskin et al, 2011a;Brooke et al, 2014;Bristow, 2015a, 2015b). Coastal stratigraphic studies have been conducted across the Mediterranean basin, in Spain (Fornós et al, 2009;Mauz et al, 2012), Sardinia Thiel et al, 2010), Tunisia (Mauz et al, 2009(Mauz et al, , 2012Elmejdoub et al, 2011), Cyprus (Tsakalos, 2016) and Egypt (El-Asmar, 1994;El-Asmar and Wood, 2000 on the correlation between dune formation and late Quaternary sea level oscillation, while less attention has been given to the coastal geomorphic response to climate, aeolian and alluvial processes. Furthermore, the studied units were usually site-specific, and not correlated with the adjacent terrestrial and submerged stratigraphies.…”

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New perspectives on coastal landscape reconstruction during the Late Quaternary: A test case from central Israel

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The stratigraphic architecture of coastal plains is determined by the interactions between local (e.g. fluvial processes and topography), regional (e.g. climate) and global (e.g. sea level) forcing factors, primarily during the Late Quaternary Period. Detailed stratigraphic and sedimentological analyses of boreholes, cored between coastal ridges in the lowlands, coupled with optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, and integrated with existing onshore and offshore databases, has enabled a 4-D reconstruction of the evolution of the coast of Israel during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. This model revealed that Nilotic-sourced littoral sand, intermittently transported inland by wind, has either been lithified into aeolianite or pedogenized into orange-brown palaeosol from about 100 ka to 8 ka. Dark silty clay wetlands were deposited between the aeolian coastal ridges adjacent to streams which cut the Israeli coastal plain and flow westward, from the Last Glacial Maximum until the onset of the Holocene. These units are topped by beach and aeolian quartz sand dated to 6.6-0.1 ka. Diachronous thicknesses and lithological dissimilarities were identified between the sections studied and previous reports on adjacent coastal aeolianite ridges. Streams were found to be a dominant control on the stratigraphical composition and related facies architecture due to fluvial-induced erosion. Consequently, the relief variations between the lowland and cliff controlled aeolian pedogenesis as well as alluvial processes from about 80 to 5 ka. Climate, mainly influenced by precipitation and dust input, induced pedogenic processes; while sea level lowstand during the Last Glacial Maximum is shown to have hindered sediment deposition in the shallow offshore, which in turn affected aeolian transport, reducing sediment accumulation on the palaeo-coastal plain. The palaeoenvironmental model presented in the current study serves as an example for understanding the evolution of similar low-latitude siliciclastic-rich low-gradient shelf-coastal areas during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Furthermore, it demonstrates the influence of local to global forcing factors on these environments.

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The role of beach ridges, spits, or barriers in understanding marine terraces processes on loose or semiconsolidated substrates: Insights from the givoni of the Gulf of Taranto (southern Italy)

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This paper presents a detailed geological and geomorphological analysis of the so‐called givoni (low‐relief, mainly gravelly landforms subparallel to the coastline) associated with the MIS 5 terrace in the northern Gulf of Taranto (southern Italy). These landforms can be interpreted as former beach ridges, swash/drift‐aligned spits, or swash/drift‐aligned barriers (BSBs); thus, givoni are palaeoshoreline indicators. In the study area, recognizing the classic landforms associated with marine terraces, that is, surfaces and scarps, is difficult, as the givoni are often associated and variably combined with surfaces and scarps. Thus, we reconstruct the formation and evolution processes of the MIS 5 marine terrace, including the formation of surfaces, scarps, and BSBs (and the resulting composite landforms), in an overall evolutionary framework based on eustatic oscillations. Then, we reconstruct a complete set of situations in which BSBs form on loose or semiconsolidated substrates in response to eustatic oscillations: (a) BSBs can form during a highstand of a warm stage on previously consolidated sediment; (b) BSBs may represent coastlines formed during sea‐level standstills in the context of a general regressive phase following the highstand peak that created a relict sea cliff; (c) BSBs may represent coastlines formed during a new relative highstand in a warm substage on previously unconsolidated deposits formed during the same stage; and (d) BSBs may be formed by a process similar to that of the previous case, except that the sea level stopped rising against a pre‐existing BSB.

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Coastal response to climate change: Mediterranean shorelines during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5)

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Eastern Mediterranean sea levels through the last interglacial from a coastal-marine sequence in northern Israel

Eastern Mediterranean sea levels through the last interglacial from a coastal-marine sequence in northern Israel

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The role of beach ridges, spits, or barriers in understanding marine terraces processes on loose or semiconsolidated substrates: Insights from the givoni of the Gulf of Taranto (southern Italy)

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