Multiple late-Holocene tsunami landfall in the eastern Gulf of Corinth recorded in the palaeotsunami geo-archive at Lechaion, harbour of ancient Corinth (Peloponnese, Greece)

Liquefaction features at an archaeological site: Investigations of past earthquake events at the Early Christian Basilica, Ancient Lechaion Harbour, Corinth, Greece

“…This uplift event may have been followed by submergence of the outer harbour moles (Flemming 1978, Vita-Finzi & King 1995, Turner et al, 2010. Koster et al, (2011) using drill core sampling and GPR/ERT surveys identified what they proposed were tsunami deposits and abrasion scours in the western part of the harbour at a depth of 2 m. Additionally, Hadler et al, (2011Hadler et al, ( , 2013 used geomorphological, sedimentological, geoarchaeological and geophysical data to identify at least three tsunamigenic events at Lechaion harbour and surrounding areas. According to radiocarbon A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 5 level by 1.60 m during the first event (A.D. 362 -375) and by 0.40 m during the second (A.D. 522 -580).…”

The environs of Elaia's ancient open harbour – a reconstruction based on microfaunal evidence

“…Some investigations deal with the function and history of ancient harbour settlements in general: the harbours of Tyre, Lebanon (Marriner and Morhange, 2007;Marriner et al, 2008Marriner et al, , 2010Morhange et al, 2012), Carthage, Tunisia (Gifford et al, 1992), Pergamum (Elaia), Turkey Seeliger et al, 2013), Ephesus, Turkey (Brückner, 1997(Brückner, , 2005Stock et al, 2013), Corinth (Lechaion), Greece (Hadler et al, 2013), Marseille (Morhange et al, 2003), Rome, Italy , Ostia, Italy (Goiran et al, 2014) e to mention a few. Others describe special harbour or economy facilities like fish tanks and ship sheds in relation to the palaeo-sea level in detail.…”

Impact of Holocene tsunamis detected in lagoonal environments on Corfu (Ionian Islands, Greece): Geomorphological, sedimentary and microfaunal evidence

“…However, such events are often documented in the form of distinct marker horizons within the sedimentary record and allow a multi-proxy based reconstruction of their spatial and temporal dimensions and their specific influence on landscape evolution as well as on man-made infrastructure (e.g. Hadler et al, 2013;V€ ott et al, 2013). In this context, recent publications provide evidence of potential triggers for extreme wave events affecting the Ionian Island of Corfu during the Holocene.…”