Foraminiferal record and high-resolution seismic stratigraphy of the Late Holocene succession of the submerged Ombrone River delta (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

Climatic variability over the last 3000 years in the central - western Mediterranean Sea (Menorca Basin) detected by planktonic foraminifera and stable isotope records

“…The Mediterranean area is considered one of the most responsive regions to global change and is an ideal archive to investigate paleoclimate oscillation at secular scale because of its high-sedimentation rate marine records, paleo-latitudinal and land locked configuration (e.g., Cacho et al, 1999;Rohling, 2001; Martrat et al, 2004;Frigola et al, 2007;Taricco et al, 2009;Nieto-Moreno et al, 2011;Lirer et al, 2013). Most of the current high-resolution studies are still limited to continental shelf areas (e.g., Oldfield et al, 2003;Piva et al, 2008;Lirer et al, 2014;Grauel et al, 2013;Di Bella et al, 2014;Jalali et al, 2015;Taricco et al, 2015;Bonomo et al, 2016;Margaritelli et al, 2016;Sicre et al, 2016;Di Rita et al, 2018) and, in contrast, little is know about deep marine records (Nieto-Moreno et al, 2011;2013a, 2013bCisneros et al, 2016;Gogou et al, 2016).…”

“…Planktonic Foraminifera are the most common proxy used for late Pleistocene-Holocene paleoclimatic reconstructions (e.g., Capotondi et al, 1999;Sprovieri et al, 2003;Tedesco and Thunell 2003;Amore et al, 2004;Bárcena et al, 2004;Sbaffi et al, 2004;King and Howard 2004;Hald et al, 2007;Fisler and Hendy, 2008;Piva et al, 2008;Moreno et al, 2012;Di Bella et al, 2014;Lirer et al, 2013Lirer et al, , 2014Munz et al, 2015;Margaritelli et al, 2016). Similarly, the oxygen isotope geochemistry of foraminifera is a well-established paleoceanographic tool (e.g., Emiliani, 1955;Shackleton, 1967) because of the oxygen in foraminiferal calcite derives from the seawater in which the organism lived.…”

Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach

“…However, marine records provide a wider range of temperature-sensitive proxies. There are few marine palaeoclimate records available for the last 2 kyr in the Mediterranean Sea (Schilman et al, 2001;Versteegh et al, 2007;Piva et al, 2008;Taricco et al, 2009Taricco et al, , 2015Incarbona et al, 2010;Fanget et al, 2013;Grauel et al, 2013;Lirer et al, 2013Lirer et al, , 2014Di Bella et al, 2014;Goudeau et al, 2015) and they are even more scarce in the western basin. Unfortunately, the existing pool of marine proxy data in the Mediterranean for the last two millennia is too sparse to recognize common patterns of climate variability (Taricco et al, 2009;Nieto-Moreno et al, 2011;Moreno et al, 2012, and references therein).…”

Climate variability of the last ~2700 years in the Southern Adriatic Sea: Coccolithophore evidences

“…calcareous plankton, lipid biomarkers, palynomorphs, stable isotopes, lake levels and speleothems) have shown the occurrence of abrupt climate changes during the Holocene (warmer/colder and drier/wetter periods) at decadal, centennial to millennial time scales in the Mediterranean basin (e.g. Bini et al, 2019;Cisneros et al, 2016;Di Bella et al, 2014;Gogou et al, 2016;Goudeau et al, 2015;Grauel et al, 2013;Jalali et al, 2016Jalali et al, , 2018Kouli et al, 2012;Lirer et al, 2013Lirer et al, , 2014Margaritelli et al, 2016Margaritelli et al, , 2018Piva et al, 2008;Sicre et al, 2016;Skampa et al, 2019;Triantaphyllou et al, 2009Triantaphyllou et al, , 2010Triantaphyllou et al, , 2016b.…”