Reconstructing middle to late Holocene palaeogeographies of the lower Messenian plain (southwestern Peloponnese, Greece): Coastline migration, vegetation history and sea level change

Engel, Max; Knipping, Maria; Brückner, Helmut; Kiderlen, Moritz; Kraft, John C.

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.005

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“…The general trend of this curve supports the sea level curves reconstructed for the Taman Peninsula by Brückner et al , Fouache et al , and Kelterbaum et al () and for the Kerch Peninsula by Porotov . The curve presented here is also similar to curves from the Mediterranean (Morhange, ; Müllenhoff, ; Brückner et al, ; Marriner et al, ; Vött, ; Engel et al, ) and the Black Sea region (Giosan et al, ; Giosan, Filip, & Constantinescu, ; Brückner et al, ; Fouache et al, ; Kelterbaum et al, ).…”

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Palaeogeographic Changes at Lake Chokrak on the Kerch Peninsula, Ukraine, during the Mid‐ and Late‐Holocene

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This project has reconstructed the palaeogeographic and environmental evolution of Lake Chokrak on the Kerch Peninsula, Ukraine, during the mid‐ and late‐Holocene. This record has been evaluated in association with a regional archaeological data set to explore human–environment interactions over this period. The results show major changes in the palaeogeographic setting of Lake Chokrak since the 3rd millennium B.C., when the postglacial marine transgression had started to fill the study area. Microfaunal analyses reveal the long persistence of an open marine embayment that only became separated from the Sea of Azov when a sand barrier developed during the late 2nd millennium B.C. When colonizing the Black Sea region after the 8th century B.C., the Greek settlers erected a fortification with a small settlement on a promontory that was by then a peninsula‐like headland extending into the lake. The colonists abandoned their settlement at the end of the 1st millennium B.C. when the depth of the surrounding lake decreased from 1.5 m to less than 1 m. Today, Lake Chokrak dries up completely during summer. A detailed relative sea level (RSL) curve for the northern coast of Kerch has been established. Sea level reached its highest position at the present day. Since the 3rd millennium B.C., sea level continuously rose, without any of the previously postulated regression/transgression cycles. The RSL curve indicates differential subsidence rates within short distances in relatively stable areas, exceeding 40 cm per 1000 years. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Palaeogeographic Changes at Lake Chokrak on the Kerch Peninsula, Ukraine, during the Mid‐ and Late‐Holocene

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“…This fits well with the evolution of numerous coastal areas worldwide, where the formation of barrier systems due to longshore drift or the progradation of fluvial deltas is documented at around 5000 cal BC and is assumed to be related to the deceleration of the eustatic sealevel rise (Stanley and Warne, 1994;Bard et al, 1996;Vött, 2007;Engel et al, 2009). The establishment of lagoonal environments in the Bay of Aghios Nikolaos and the Lefkada area was obviously linked to the formation of a coastline (coastline generation I or II) represented by the submerged beachrock remains.…”

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The Lefkada barrier and beachrock system (NW Greece) — Controls on coastal evolution and the significance of extreme wave events

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“…Ernst, 1970;V€ ott et al, 2002Brückner et al, 2006;Engel et al, 2009;Niwa et al, 2011;Kelterbaum et al, 2012). Samples were air-dried, ground and sieved to separate the 2 mm grain size fraction for further analyses.…”

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

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Reconstructing middle to late Holocene palaeogeographies of the lower Messenian plain (southwestern Peloponnese, Greece): Coastline migration, vegetation history and sea level change

Cited by 32 publications

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Palaeogeographic Changes at Lake Chokrak on the Kerch Peninsula, Ukraine, during the Mid‐ and Late‐Holocene

Palaeogeographic Changes at Lake Chokrak on the Kerch Peninsula, Ukraine, during the Mid‐ and Late‐Holocene

The Lefkada barrier and beachrock system (NW Greece) — Controls on coastal evolution and the significance of extreme wave events

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

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