Sea level change and vertical land movements since the last two millennia along the coasts of southwestern Turkey and Israel

Anzidei, Marco; Antonioli, Fabrizio; Benini, Alessandra; Lambeck, Kurt; Sivan, Dorit; Serpelloni, Enrico; Stocchi, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.05.005

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“…Relative sea levels of the Mediterranean Sea generally track eustatic sea-level changes (Lambeck and Bard, 2000;Galili et al, 2007;Sivan et al, 2016), and it is hypothesised that the Late Pleistocene synoptic regime over the Mediterranean was similar to the present (Enzel et al, 2008). Israel's coast is considered tectonically stable, at least since Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e (Sivan et al, 1999;Galili et al, 2007;Mauz et al, 2013;, with low isostatic uplift rates of about 0.1 mm/year in the Holocene (Sivan et al, 2001;Anzidei et al, 2011;Toker et al, 2012), and about 0.05 mm/year over about the last 125 ka .…”

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“…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. During the lowstand, sea level ranged from − 85 to − 130 mILSD, and the shoreline was situated below the shelf-break (Figs.…”

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“…Then, at about 6 to 4 ka, as sea level and the coastline almost reached their present elevation and location ( Fig. 6; Sivan et al, 2001Anzidei et al, 2011;Toker et al, 2012), the volumes of windblown sand which accumulated along the coast increased (Roskin et al, 2015 and ref. therein).…”

Section: Evolution Of the Coastal Plain Of Israel During The Late Quamentioning

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

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Roskin

et al. 2017

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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The stratigraphic architecture of coastal plains is determined by the interactions between local (e.g. fluvial processes and topography), regional (e.g. climate) and global (e.g. sea level) forcing factors, primarily during the Late Quaternary Period. Detailed stratigraphic and sedimentological analyses of boreholes, cored between coastal ridges in the lowlands, coupled with optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, and integrated with existing onshore and offshore databases, has enabled a 4-D reconstruction of the evolution of the coast of Israel during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. This model revealed that Nilotic-sourced littoral sand, intermittently transported inland by wind, has either been lithified into aeolianite or pedogenized into orange-brown palaeosol from about 100 ka to 8 ka. Dark silty clay wetlands were deposited between the aeolian coastal ridges adjacent to streams which cut the Israeli coastal plain and flow westward, from the Last Glacial Maximum until the onset of the Holocene. These units are topped by beach and aeolian quartz sand dated to 6.6-0.1 ka. Diachronous thicknesses and lithological dissimilarities were identified between the sections studied and previous reports on adjacent coastal aeolianite ridges. Streams were found to be a dominant control on the stratigraphical composition and related facies architecture due to fluvial-induced erosion. Consequently, the relief variations between the lowland and cliff controlled aeolian pedogenesis as well as alluvial processes from about 80 to 5 ka. Climate, mainly influenced by precipitation and dust input, induced pedogenic processes; while sea level lowstand during the Last Glacial Maximum is shown to have hindered sediment deposition in the shallow offshore, which in turn affected aeolian transport, reducing sediment accumulation on the palaeo-coastal plain. The palaeoenvironmental model presented in the current study serves as an example for understanding the evolution of similar low-latitude siliciclastic-rich low-gradient shelf-coastal areas during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Furthermore, it demonstrates the influence of local to global forcing factors on these environments.

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Section: Low Sea Levels and Their Controls On Sedimentation Gapsmentioning

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

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“…Sea level change is the sum of eustatic, glacio-hydroisostatic and tectonic movements: the first is global and time-dependent, and the latter two vary with location, sediment load, compaction and anthropic factors (Lambeck et al, 2004a). The glacio-hydro-isostatic component of post-glacial sea level rise has been recently predicted and compared with field data at several coastal sites around the Italian coasts (Lambeck et al, 2004a;Antonioli et al, 2007Antonioli et al, , 2009) and for other areas of the Mediterranean Sea (Anzidei et al, 2011a(Anzidei et al, , 2011b, providing an estimate of the rates of the current vertical tectonic motion.…”

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Holocene sea level change in Malta

Furlani

Antonioli

Biolchi

et al. 2013

Quaternary International

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a b s t r a c tA multidisciplinary approach has been applied to study sea level changes along the coast of Malta using data collected from underwater archaeological remains. The elevation of archaeological markers have been compared with predicted sea level curves providing new bodies of evidence that outline the vertical tectonic behaviour of this region, allowing estimation of the relative sea level changes that occurred in this area of the Mediterranean since the Bronze Age. During the Roman Age, sea level was at À1.36 AE 0.1 m, while in the Midde Age it was at À0.56 AE 0.2 m, in agreement with previous estimations for the Mediterranean region. Data indicate that Malta was tectonically stable during the studied period. The occurrence of the present-day notch along the coasts of the island indicates recent vertical stability of the area. The lack of MIS 5.5 deposits all over the island could simply be due to high rates of erosion, as its coasts are highly exposed to storm waves, rather than tectonic movements. However, even very slight vertical movements could completely remove field evidence. The relative stability of the Maltese Islands allowed a first attempt to provide a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of its coasts at different time windows since the Last Glacial Maximum. The results have been used to infer time and mode of mammal dispersal to the island during the Pleistocene.

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“…One clear-cut example is the ancient city of Venice, which lies in a barrier island lagoon system just north of the Po Delta and is regularly subject to flooding by high tides. Both natural and anthropogenic land subsidence and eustasy in the northern Adriatic have caused 23 cm of relative land subsidence, with respect to the mean sea level over the last 100 years [15]- [18] [27]- [29]. Spirit leveling and CGPS and DInSAR methods, applied since 2000, have shown that subsidence no longer occurs in the center of Venice and in its industrial zone, but is still ongoing in the northern and southern lagoons and bordering land [30] [31].…”

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Estimation of Subsidence in Po Delta Area (Northern Italy) by Integration of GPS Data, High-Precision Leveling and Archival Orthometric Elevations

Fabris

Achilli

Menin

2014

IJG

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Subsidence in a deformation area can be measured in various ways, examples being conventional high-precision leveling, differential InSAR and multi-temporal GPS surveys. Integration of methods can improve results, and is crucial to extract high-precision data. In particular, orthometric and ellipsoid elevations, surveyed at different moments in time, can be compared to yield information on vertical movements when geoid anomalies are known. However, a data checking procedure must be applied if archival orthometric elevations are used, because long-term measurements for many historical benchmarks may have been lost and/or replaced with other points, but at different elevations. This type of checking can be carried out over an area without gravimetric anomalies by modeling geoid undulations and vertical displacements in the time-span used for analysis, excluding points with anomalous values. This procedure was tested and applied in the Po Delta area (northern Italy), historically subject to high subsidence rates: the leveling benchmarks of 1983 were measured with the GPS technique in 2008. After checking of archival data and transformation from ellipsoid to orthometric elevations, comparisons of the same points and interpolations on the study area provided a subsidence map for the 1983-2008 period.

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Sea level change and vertical land movements since the last two millennia along the coasts of southwestern Turkey and Israel

Cited by 77 publications

References 38 publications

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

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

Holocene sea level change in Malta

Estimation of Subsidence in Po Delta Area (Northern Italy) by Integration of GPS Data, High-Precision Leveling and Archival Orthometric Elevations

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