Contouring the Cataclysm: A Geographical Analysis of the Effects of the Minoan Eruption of the Santorini Volcano

Athanassas, Constantin; Modis, Konstantinos; Alçiçek, Mehmet Cihat; Theodorakopoulou, Katerina

doi:10.1080/14614103.2017.1288885

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“…The Minoan civilisation was severely hit by the pyroclasts and the tsunami generated by the powerful and catastrophic explosive eruption of the Santorini Volcano in the Aegean Sea (Minoura et al, 2000;Athanassas et al, 2017). This LBAES (also known as the Minoan Eruption of Santorini) occurred at c. 1600 BC (1600-1627 BC, Friedrich et al, 2006;1613± 13 BC, Friedrich, 2013 and produced an enormous volume of tephra (78-86 km 3 DRE, Johnston et al, 2014).…”

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Volcanic ash and tsunami record of the Minoan Late Bronze Age Eruption (Santorini) in a distal setting, southwestern Turkey

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Çiner

Ersoy

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J Quaternary Science

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We present the volcanic ash and tsunami record of the Minoan Late Bronze Age Eruption of Santorini (LBAES) in a distal setting in southwestern Turkey. In one of the drilled cores at the Letoon Hellenic antique site on Eşençay Delta, we encountered a 4 cm thick tephra deposit underlain by 46 cm thick tsunami‐deposited sand (tsunamite), and an organic‐rich layer that we 14C dated to 3295 ± 30 bp or 1633 bc. The relationship between Santorini distal volcanic ash and underlying tsunamite is described and interpreted. LBAES occurred in four main phases: (1) plinian; (2) phreatomagmatic; (3) phreatomagmatic with mudflows; and (4) ignimbritic flows and co‐ignimbrite tephra falls. In this study, we aim to understand which eruptive phases generate distal ash during the Minoan eruptive sequence by examining the 3D surface morphology of ash formed by different fragmentation processes. To that end, we used numerous statistical multivariates, 3D fractal dimension of roughness, and a new textural parameter of surface area‐3D/plotted area‐2D to characterise the eruption dynamics. Based on ash surface morphologies and the calculated statistical parameters, we propose that that distal ash is represented by a single layer composed of well‐mixed (coarse to fine) magmatic and phreatomagmatic ash.

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Volcanic ash and tsunami record of the Minoan Late Bronze Age Eruption (Santorini) in a distal setting, southwestern Turkey

Aydar

Çiner

Ersoy

et al. 2021

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“…Higher up in the sequence, the alluvial fan deposits gradually pass upwards into the fluvial facies association and are eventually overlain by the Fig. 3 Comparative stratigraphy for the synchronous extensional orogentop basins in SW Anatolia depicted by the biochronologic and geochronologic evidences: Çal (Alçiçek et al 2012;Alçiçek and Alçiçek 2014), Baklan (Sickenberg and Tobien 1971;Sickenberg et al 1975;Konak et al 1986;Sun 1990;Westaway et al 2005;Wesselingh and Alçiçek 2010;Alçiçek et al 2013a;Pickford 2016;Geraads 2017), Acıgöl (Göktaş et al 1989;Sulpizio et al 2013;Alçiçek et al 2013a, b;Athanassas et al 2018;Demory et al 2018), Burdur (Sickenberg and Tobien 1971;Lefevre et al 1983;Karaman 1986;Price 1989;Price and Scott 1989;Price and Scott 1991;Platevoet et al 2008;Alçiçek et al 2013a, b;Demirel and Mayda 2014;Alçiçek et al 2017b;Demirel et al 2016Demirel et al , 2017Özkaptan et al 2018, Çoban et al 2019), Çameli (Becker-Platen 1970Erakman et al 1982a, b;Meşhur and Akpınar 1984;Erakman and Alkan 1986;Alçiçek et al 2005;Akdeniz 2011a;Van den Hoek Ostende et al 2015a, b;…”

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“…,Elitez et al (2017) Demory et al (2018),Özkaptan et al (2018),Athanassas et al (2018) and Çoban et al Equus hydruntinus (Alçiçek et al 2012) Acıgöl-Yelalan: Equus hydruntinus (Alçiçek et al 2013a, b) Baklan-Gelinören: Meriones sp., Microtus sp. Baklan-Aşağıdağdere: Apodemus sp.…”

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Reconciling the stratigraphy and depositional history of the Lycian orogen-top basins, SW Anatolia

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Mayda

Veen

et al. 2019

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Terrestrial fossil records from the SW Anatolian basins are crucial both for regional correlations and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. By reassessing biostratigraphic constraints and incorporating new fossil data, we calibrated and reconstructed the late Neogene and Quaternary palaeoenvironments within a regional palaeogeographical framework. The culmination of the Taurides in SWAnatolia was followed by a regional crustal extension from the late Tortonian onwards that created a broad array of NE-trending orogen-top basins with synchronic associations of alluvial fan, fluvial and lacustrine deposits. The terrestrial basins are superimposed on the upper Burdigalian marine units with a c. 7 myr of hiatus that corresponds to a shift from regional shortening to extension. The initial infill of these basins is documented by a transition from marginal alluvial fans and axial fluvial systems into central shallow-perennial lakes coinciding with a climatic shift from warm/humid to arid conditions. The basal alluvial fan deposits abound in fossil macro-mammals of an early Turolian (MN11-12; late Tortonian) age. The Pliocene epoch in the region was punctuated by subhumid/humid conditions resulting in a rise of local base levels and expansion of lakes as evidenced by marsh-swamp deposits containing diverse fossil mammal assemblages indicating late Ruscinian (late MN15; late Zanclean) age. A second pulse of extension, accompanied by regional climatic This article is a contribution to the special issue "Taking the Orient Express? The role of Anatolia in Mediterranean Neogene palaeobiogeography"

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“…The tephra dispersion modeling (Bonadonna et al 2005) or geostatistics (Athanassas et al 2018) have been used to predict the thickness and spread of the Minoan tephra in adjacent areas. Some deterministic models (Sewell 2001) have shown that the dispersal of Minoan tephra had a W-E trend, while a geostatistical prediction map (Athanassas et al 2018) suggests a NE-SW axis stretching from approximately the Bosporus to the eastern tip of Crete, and exhibits an eastward drift away from Santorini as far as Central-Western Anatolia. Recent studies in western Turkey certified the most eastward occurrence of Minoan tephra on land and the first in continental deposits except from lacustrine sediments (Sulpizio et al 2013).…”

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Chronological evidence for a pre-Minoan age of pyroclastic deposits on Anafi Island, Cyclades, Greece

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Pyroclastic deposits on Anafi Island, Cyclades, Greece, were initially related to the Minoan eruption (1613 BC), but later geochemical studies favored an older chronology that points at the Lower Pumice eruption of Santorini (172 ka). Here we attempt through OSL dating to provide a minimum age by dating sand-sized quartz from colluvium overlying the deposits. The chronological results excluded the possibility of being Minoan.

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Contouring the Cataclysm: A Geographical Analysis of the Effects of the Minoan Eruption of the Santorini Volcano

Cited by 12 publications

References 85 publications

Volcanic ash and tsunami record of the Minoan Late Bronze Age Eruption (Santorini) in a distal setting, southwestern Turkey

Volcanic ash and tsunami record of the Minoan Late Bronze Age Eruption (Santorini) in a distal setting, southwestern Turkey

Reconciling the stratigraphy and depositional history of the Lycian orogen-top basins, SW Anatolia

Chronological evidence for a pre-Minoan age of pyroclastic deposits on Anafi Island, Cyclades, Greece

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