Luminescence chronology of aeolianites from the section at Givat Olga — Coastal Plain of Israel

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

“…5 and 6). The disruption in sand accumulation is supported by various studies from across the southern (Zilberman et al, 2007;Roskin et al, 2011a), central (Gvirtzman et al, 1998;Gvirtzman and Wieder, 2001;Sivan and Porat, 2004) and northern (Zviely et al, 2006;Elyashiv, 2013) Israeli coastal plain, in which only a single age of 19 ± 2 ka was obtained by Frechen et al (2001), sampled from a coastal ridge in central Israel. Global eustatic sea level curves (Spratt and Lisiecki, 2015), regional eustatic sea level proxy records (Anzidei et al, 2011;Rohling et al, 2014), local RSL data (Sivan et al, 2001) and erosive unconformity from subsurface profiles (Schattner et al, 2010(Schattner et al, , 2015 suggest that this gap is associated with the LGM lowstand (33 to 15 ka), and then from 15 to 12 ka during the rapid RSL rise.…”

“…1b). The correlation is based on the lithological description, petro-sedimentological characteristics, accompanying features, and a stratigraphic position comparison of our new OSL ages with published ages (Gvirtzman et al, 1983(Gvirtzman et al, , 1998Engelmann et al, 2001;Frechen et al, 2001Frechen et al, , 2002Gvirtzman and Wieder, 2001;Neber, 2002;Porat et al, 2004;Tsatskin et al, 2009;Moshier et al, 2010;Mauz et al, 2013). This correlation suggests that the coastal lowlands are dominated by palaeosol units with little if any aeolianites, while the coastal ridge sections consist primarily of aeolianites interbedded by palaeosols.…”

“…Nilotic sand started to accumulate on the coast, and covered the coastal ridges and lowland palaeosols at about 7 ka (Engelmann et al, 2001;Frechen et al, 2001;Porat et al, 2004). At about 3 ka, sea level stabilized at approximately the present mean sea level (MSL: Sivan et al, 2001.…”

“…The Late Quaternary coastal palaeogeography of Israel has been studied since the 1940s in an attempt to correlate the coastal outcrop stratigraphy with transgressive and regressive sea level phases (Avnimelech, 1950). Later works concentrated on radiometric (luminescence and radiocarbon) ages for the central coastal aeolianite cliff sequences which yield ages younger than about 75 ka (Engelmann et al, 2001;Frechen et al, 2001Frechen et al, , 2002Porat et al, 2004;Moshier et al, 2010;Mauz et al, 2013). Hardly any attention has been paid to the submerged stratigraphy and to the sequences of lowlands located between coastal ridges.…”

Aeolianite and barrier dune construction spanning the last two glacial?interglacial cycles from the southern Cape coast, South Africa

“…In some areas, e.g., the Coorong coastal plain of south Australia, detailed chronostratigraphic work has shown that deposition of large coastal dunes/aeolianites occurred during interglacial and interstadial sea5level highstands. However elsewhere, including within Australia, aeolianites have been reported as being of glacial age (e.g., Zhou et al, 1994;Frechen et al, 2001). In Brooke's (2001) database of global aeolianite deposits, all the entries from South Africa lacked good temporal control.…”