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 …

Second Intermediate Period date for the Thera (Santorini) eruption and historical implications

SW Manning - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The historical relevance of the Thera (Santorini) volcanic eruption is unclear because of
major dating uncertainty. Long placed~ 1500 BCE and during the Egyptian New Kingdom …

Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption

C Pearson, K Sbonias, I Tzachili, TJ Heaton - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The precise date of the 2nd millennium BCE (“Minoan”) eruption of Thera (Santorini) has
long been a focus of controversy due to a discrepancy between archaeological and …

Submarine terraced deposits linked to periodic collapse of caldera-forming eruption columns

JT Gilchrist, AM Jellinek, EEE Hooft, S Wanket - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
Catastrophic, caldera-forming explosive eruptions generate hazardous ash fall, pyroclastic
density currents and, in some cases, tsunamis, yet their dynamics are still poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of undulating seafloor bedforms during the Minoan eruption and their implications for eruption dynamics and slope stability at Santorini

J Karstens, J Preine, S Carey, KLC Bell… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minoan eruption of Santorini is one of the largest Holocene volcanic events
and produced several cubic kilometers of pyroclastic flows emplaced on the submerged …

Palaeo-tsunami events on the coasts of Cyprus

N Evelpidou, A Karkani, M Polidorou, G Saitis… - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cyprus has a long history of tsunami activity, as described in archaeological and geological
records. Although the study area has experienced tsunamis in the past and constitutes an …

Discovery and environmental implications of Santorini tephras (Cape Riva and Minoan) in sediments of Lake Yayla (West Anatolia)

M Doğan, Y Özdemir, Y Bozkurt, Ç Şenkul - The Holocene, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Throughout the long eruption history of the Santorini volcano, the Cape Riva/Y-2 and
Minoan/Z-2 eruptions had a profound impact on the environment. The Minoan eruptions also …

[HTML][HTML] A city against the current: A reconstruction of Holocene sea-level changes and the evolution of coastal landscapes in ancient Abdera (Thrace, Gr.)

A Mayoral, A Ejarque, A Garcia-Molsosa, M Georgiadis… - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents an integrated Geoarchaeological approach to Holocene landscape
change and socio-environmental interaction around ancient Abdera, a Greek colony in …

Problems of Dating Spread on Radiocarbon Calibration Curve Plateaus: The 1620–1540 BC Example and the Dating of the Therasia Olive Shrub Samples and Thera …

SW Manning - Radiocarbon, 2024 - cambridge.org
Determining calendar ages for radiocarbon dates, or ordered sequences of radiocarbon
dates, that intersect with a plateau on the radiocarbon calibration curve can be problematic …

A Minoan and a Neolithic tsunami recorded in coastal sediments of Ios Island, Aegean Sea, Greece

R Paris, A Smedile, S Falvard, JL Devidal, K Suchorski - Marine Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we document two distinct tsunami deposits on the coasts of Ios Island, Aegean
Sea, Greece. The younger tsunami deposit, dated 1831–1368 cal. BCE, includes both …