The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes

KM Grant, R Grimm, U Mikolajewicz, G Marino… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean basin is sensitive to global sea-level changes and African monsoon
variability on orbital timescales. Both of these processes are thought to be important to the …

An overview of Alpine and Mediterranean palaeogeography, terrestrial ecosystems and climate history during MIS 3 with focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic …

F Badino, R Pini, C Ravazzi, D Margaritora… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the current state of knowledge about the millennial scale climate
variability characterizing Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) in S-Europe and the Mediterranean …

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

B Wagner, H Vogel, A Francke, T Friedrich, T Donders… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mediterranean climates are characterized by strong seasonal contrasts between dry
summers and wet winters. Changes in winter rainfall are critical for regional socioeconomic …

Eruptive activity of the Santorini Volcano controlled by sea-level rise and fall

C Satow, A Gudmundsson, R Gertisser… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sea-level change is thought to influence the frequencies of volcanic eruptions on glacial to
interglacial timescales. However, the underlying physical processes and their importance …

Volcanic ash, victims, and tsunami debris from the Late Bronze Age Thera eruption discovered at Çeşme-Bağlararası (Turkey)

V Şahoğlu, JH Sterba, T Katz, Ü Çayır… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The Late Bronze Age Thera eruption was one of the largest natural disasters witnessed in
human history. Its impact, consequences, and timing have dominated the discourse of …

The medial offshore record of explosive volcanism along the central to eastern Aegean Volcanic Arc: 2. Tephra ages and volumes, eruption magnitudes and marine …

S Kutterolf, A Freundt, TH Druitt… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We use the tephrostratigraphic framework along the Aegean Volcanic Arc established in
Part 1 of this contribution to determine hemipelagic sedimentation rates, calculate new …

The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean …

S Wulf, MJ Hardiman, RA Staff, A Koutsodendris… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The iconic climate archive of Tenaghi Philippon (TP), NE Greece, allows the study of short-
term palaeoclimatic and environmental change throughout the past 1.3 Ma. To provide high …

Dark ophiuroid biodiversity in a prospective abyssal mine field

M Christodoulou, TD O'hara, AF Hugall, PM Arbizu - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
The seafloor contains valuable mineral resources, including polymetallic (or manganese)
nodules that form on offshore abyssal plains. The largest and most commercially attractive …

A tale of two signals: Global and local influences on the Late Pleistocene loess sequences in Bulgarian Lower Danube

K Fenn, DSG Thomas, JA Durcan, IL Millar… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In Central and Eastern Europe, research has been focused on loess associated
with a plateau-setting, which preserves distinct and well-developed loess and palaeosol …

Linking the Mediterranean MIS 5 tephra markers to Campi Flegrei (southern Italy) 109–92 ka explosive activity and refining the chronology of MIS 5c-d millennial-scale …

L Monaco, DM Palladino, PG Albert, I Arienzo… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Explosive activity preceding the~ 40 ka Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in the
Neapolitan volcanic area, Southern Italy, has long been speculated based on the …