Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland

Holocene salt‐marsh sedimentary infilling and relative sea‐level changes in West Brittany (France) using foraminifera‐based transfer functions

“…) and several abandonment of settlements, notably due to an important eolian event within the coastal areas of NW Europe (Guilcher & Hallégouët ; Tisdall et al . ).…”

“…; Tisdall et al . ), characterized by colder and wetter climatic conditions, with increased rainfall and largely enhanced storminess (Van Geel et al . ; Clarke & Rendell ).…”

“…a BP, whereas a similar deposit found at Tariec beach was dated to around 6850 cal. a BP at an elevation of −3.80 m NGF (Goslin et al 2013 (Van Geel et al 1996;Barber et al 2003Barber et al , 2004Magny 2004;Dark 2006;Gandouin et al 2009;Charman 2010;Swindles et al 2013;Tisdall et al 2013), characterized by colder and wetter climatic conditions, with increased rainfall and largely enhanced storminess (Van Geel et al 1996;Clarke & Rendell 2009). Major disruptions of coastal sedimentary environments were also identified all along the European coasts, either in the English Channel region (Long & Hughes 1995;Billeaud et al 2009;Sorrel et al 2009;Lespez et al 2010;Tessier et al 2012) or along the Atlantic coasts Clavé et al 2001;Moura et al 2007;Sorrel et al 2009).…”

“…Major disruptions of coastal sedimentary environments were also identified all along the European coasts, either in the English Channel region (Long & Hughes 1995;Billeaud et al 2009;Sorrel et al 2009;Lespez et al 2010;Tessier et al 2012) or along the Atlantic coasts Clavé et al 2001;Moura et al 2007;Sorrel et al 2009). Archaeological remains suggest less dense settlement patterns at the end of the Late Bronze Age (Coquillas 2001;Pailler et al 2011; and several abandonment of settlements, notably due to an important eolian event within the coastal areas of NW Europe (Guilcher & Hallégouët 1991;Tisdall et al 2013).…”

Climate control on late Holocene high-energy sedimentation along coasts of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean

“…Onshore, HSPs are associated with the widespread formation of massive aeolian dune fields and coversands stretching along the coasts of western Europe (Alexanderson and Bernhardson, 2016;Bateman and Godby, 2004;Clarke et al, 2002;Clarke and Rendell, 2006;Clemmensen et al, 1996;Clemmensen and Murray, 2006;Clemmensen et al, 2009;Costas et al, 2013Costas et al, , 2012Costas et al, , 2016Gilbertson et al, 1999;Jelgersma et al, 1995;Nielsen et al, 2016;Sommerville et al, 2007;van Vliet-Lanoë et al, 2016;Wilson and Braley, 1997;Wilson et al, 2004), also recorded as the deposition of thin windblown quartz layers over soils (Jackson et al, 2005) and peat bogs (Björck and Clemmensen, 2004;de Jong et al, 2006de Jong et al, , 2007Kylander et al, 2016;Orme et al, 2015Orme et al, , 2016Sjögren, 2009;Tisdall et al, 2013). Aeolian activity was initiated during the last glacial termination (Costas et al, 2016) that gave rise to the periglacial "European Sand Belt" (Zeeberg, 2008), the most recent phase of dune formation being the LIA.…”