Life cycle of estuarine islands — From the formation to the landlocking of former islands in the environs of Miletos and Ephesos in western Asia Minor (Turkey)

Brückner, Helmut; Herda, Alexander; Kerschner, Michael; Müllenhoff, Marc; Stock, Friederike

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.11.024

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“…Both tectonics and sedimentological processes (N-S extension, graben, horst, erosion, delta progradation) and climate events (both orbital and abrupt changes) have played spectacular roles in modulating the ecological conditions in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea coastal areas. The ecological systems in this region include a variety of terrestrial aquatic ecosystems, ranging from fluvial, lacustrine, and lagoonal to coastal marine environments [6,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. Additional factors affecting the environmental conditions in such systems include abrupt geological events (e.g., storms, earthquakes, and tsunamis) and global fluctuations of sea level changes related to orbital climatic oscillations.…”

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“…Several geological and geomorphological studies have been carried out in and around the Lake Bafa These studies have contributed to our knowledge of the coastal geomorphological history, sea level changes, tectonic processes driven erosion rates, climate and environmental induced changes (vegetation and faunal changes) and human impact [6,8,9,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One study by Bruckner et al [48] suggests that horst and graben tectonics in the Büyük and Küçük Menderes Grabens caused serious environmental and coastline changes. Mullenhoff et al [6] concluded that the Lake Bafa was formed as a consequence of erosional processes in the adjacent mainland of Turkey, which have controlled the deltaic progradation and the filling of the Latmian Gulf.…”

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“Geo-archives of a Coastal Lacustrine Eco-system”: Lake Bafa (Mediterranean Sea)

Bulkan¹,

Ediş²,

Çağatay³

2019

Sedimentation Engineering [Working Title]

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A hypothetical novel, which aims to summarize the whole geological history of the coastal area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, probably contains a sum of intensive and impressive topics, such as tsunamis, storms, earthquakes, volcanic activities, human-nature interactions, and their products. These abrupt geo-event changes (e.g., water chemistry fluctuations) remark a dynamic nature of this unique coastal area. Paleolimnological studies of a coastal lacustrine archive (i.e., Lake Bafa, Turkey), associated with syngenetic deposits accumulated in neighboring geological settings (i.e., swamp, deltaic, lagoon, marine), has allowed us to reconstruct the local geological history. Following this hypothesis, we aimed at investigating the paleoenvironmental establishment of the Lake Bafa and surrounding coastal area. Lithologic and geochemical investigations of the lacustrine ("BAF37:4.2 m) core and surrounding swamp ("BS":12 m) sediments supplied us an excellent geo-archive, continuously accumulated during the last 4.5 ky. Following conclusions are provided concerning the main depositional stages: Recent swamp-lacustrine separated stage (S-I: last 0.8 ky), lagoon stage (S-II.: 0.8-1.75 ky BP), marine-river interaction stage (S-III: 1.75-2.7 ky BP), and marine-dominated stage (S-IV: 2.7-4.5 ky BP). Our observations indicate that ecosystem characteristics of the basin have been mainly controlled by the hydroclimate and geotectonic processes.

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Section: Implications For Holocene Age Local Environmental Conditionsmentioning

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Section: Implications For Holocene Age Local Environmental Conditionsmentioning

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Section: Implications For Holocene Age Local Environmental Conditionsmentioning

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“Geo-archives of a Coastal Lacustrine Eco-system”: Lake Bafa (Mediterranean Sea)

Bulkan¹,

Ediş²,

Çağatay³

2019

Sedimentation Engineering [Working Title]

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“…Especially in the Mediterranean many important ancient cities were founded on the coast of large embayments and estuaries, e.g. Troy (Kraft et al, 2003), Ephesus (Stock et al, 2013(Stock et al, , 2016, Miletus and Priene (Brückner et al, 2002(Brückner et al, , 2017 and their respective gulfs, and Aquileia near Laguna di Grado in northeastern Italy (Arnaud-Fassetta et al, 2003).…”

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“…While a significant amount of research on both sea-level evolution and human-environment interactions exists from Mediterranean coastal lowlands and delta regions (e.g. Lario et al, 2002;Pavlopoulos et al, 2006;Carozza et al, 2011;Brückner et al, 2017;Herda et al, 2019) -many of them in geoarchaeological contexts and at ancient harbour sites especially (Marriner and Morhange, 2007;e.g. for Rome's harbours Portus and Ostia: Delile et al, 2014;Goiran et al, 2014;for Miletus: Brückner et al, 2014; for Alexandria: Flaux et al, 2017; for Ephesus Stock et al, 2013Stock et al, , 2014)studies on the sea-level evolution of the Black Sea are scarce.…”

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Coastal lowland and floodplain evolution along the lower reaches of the Supsa River (western Georgia)

Laermanns

May

Kelterbaum

et al. 2019

E&G Quaternary Sci. J.

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In the southernmost part of the Colchian plain (Georgia), the Supsa and Rioni rivers represent important catchments for reconstructing Holocene landscape changes. Using granulometric methods, geochemical analyses and radiocarbon dating, we demonstrate that significant palaeoenvironmental changes have taken place in the surroundings of the Supsa fan since at least 4000 BCE. The initial foothill fan accumulation was prolonged by delta plain progradation. Due to continued fluvial sediment supply, mainly from the Rioni, the lagoon silted up and extended peat bogs formed east of the beach ridge complex. The Supsa fan first prograded northwards (since the third millennium BCE) and later shifted westwards, eventually following an avulsion of the Rioni. While Supsa deposits remain limited to the area of the fan and the modern estuary, the alluvial fines of the Rioni dominate the surrounding areas. The relative sea-level (RSL) index points of the region suggest a gradual RSL rise from ∼ −9 m between 4000 and 3500 BCE to −3/−2 m below the modern sea level in the second half of the first millennium BCE, the period during which Greek colonization and Colchian settlements are attested by archaeological remains. Kurzfassung:Im südlichsten Teil der kolchischen Tiefebene (Georgien) stellen die Einzugsgebiete von Rioni und Supsa wichtige Areale zur Rekonstruktion des holozänen Landschaftswandels dar. Mittels granulometrischer und geochemischer Analysen sowie Radiokohlenstoffdatierungen lässt sich der signifikante Landschaftswandel im Bereich des Supsa-Schwemmfächers seit etwa 4000 v. Chr. nachweisen. Das Areal wurde von einer Sandbarre vom offenen Meer getrennt, hinter der sich große Stillwasserbereiche bildeten. Der anhaltende fluviale Sedimenteintrag, hauptsächlich durch den Rioni, begünstigte die allmähliche Verlandung und die Entstehung von Torfmooren. Gleichzeitig baute sich -zunächst nach Norden (etwa ab dem 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.) und später durch den Rioni nach Westen abgelenkt -der Schwemmfächer des Supsa vor. Während sich die Supsa-Ablagerungen im Wesentlichen auf den Schwemmfächer und die aktuelle Mündung beschränken, dominieren die feinkörnigen Ablagerungen des Rioni die Umgebung. Die Indexpunkte für den relativen Meeresspiegel deuten auf einen anhaltenden Anstieg des Meeres hin, ausgehend von etwa −9 m unter dem Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the Deutsche Quartärvereinigung (DEUQUA) e.V. 120 H. Laermanns et al.: Coastal lowland and floodplain evolution along the Supsa River heutigen Niveau um 4000 bis 3500 v. Chr. auf −3 bis −2 m in der zweiten Hälfte des 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr. Für den letztgenannten Zeitraum sind kolchische und griechische Siedlungen durch archäologische Funde in der Umgebung der Supsa-Mündung belegt.

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Cities and socioecological systems in the ancient world

Boogers,

Beaujean,

Poblome

2024

A Companion to Cities in the Greco‐Roman World

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Life cycle of estuarine islands — From the formation to the landlocking of former islands in the environs of Miletos and Ephesos in western Asia Minor (Turkey)

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

“Geo-archives of a Coastal Lacustrine Eco-system”: Lake Bafa (Mediterranean Sea)

“Geo-archives of a Coastal Lacustrine Eco-system”: Lake Bafa (Mediterranean Sea)

Coastal lowland and floodplain evolution along the lower reaches of the Supsa River (western Georgia)

Cities and socioecological systems in the ancient world

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