Paleoenvironmental changes since 3000 BC in the coastal marsh of Vravron (Attica, SE Greece)

Triantaphyllou, Maria; Kouli, Katerina; Tsourou, Theodora; Koukousioura, Olga; Pavlopoulos, Kosmas; Dermitzakis, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.08.019

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“…Based on some available stratigraphic data from Triantaphyllou et al (2010), who performed drillings on the coastal plain of Vravron bay, an attempt is made to estimate the age of the beachrocks. Based on radiocarbon ages from drillings by Triantaphyllou et al (2010), the beachrocks, located at a depth between 60-70 cm (BR-1, BR-4) may be tentatively dated at about 950±50 BP (1434-1645 AD), based on marine gastropod shells (Murex sp.)…”

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“…Based on radiocarbon ages from drillings by Triantaphyllou et al (2010), the beachrocks, located at a depth between 60-70 cm (BR-1, BR-4) may be tentatively dated at about 950±50 BP (1434-1645 AD), based on marine gastropod shells (Murex sp.) that were found at a depth of 65 cm below sea level (Triantaphyllou et al, 2010).…”

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“…Palaeogeographic research in the study area has also taken place in Vravron by Triantaphyllou et al (2010), and in Marathon by Baeteman (1985) and Pavlopoulos et al (2006). According to Pavlopoulos et al (2006), the relative sea level rise in Marathon, for the period 5250-1252 BP, was estimated between 2 and 2.5 m (0.50-0.62 mm/yr), while for the last 3800 years it reached a rate of about 0.…”

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“…43 mm/yr. In Vravron, a relative sea level (RSL) rise at a rate of about 0.49mm/y for the last 3462 years BP was estimated based on peat, while, based on marine gastropod datings, the RSL rise was estimated at a rate of 0.69mm/y for the last 4709 years BP (Triantaphyllou et al, 2010). …”

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“…Over the last 40 years, the geoarcheology of the Greek shoreline has produced a large literature dealing with both the Aegean (Genre, 1989;Ghilardi, Kunesch, Styllas, & Fouache, 2008;Ghilardi et al, , 2010Ghilardi et al, , 2013Goiran, Pavlopoulos, Fouache, Triantaphyllou, & Etienne, 2011;Kraft, Aschenbrenner, & Rapp, 1977;Kraft & Rapp, 1975;Pavlopoulos et al, 2006;Syrides, Vouvalidis, Tsourlos, & Matas, 2009;Triantaphyllou et al, 2010;Vouvalidis et al, 2010) and Ionian coasts (Chabrol, Fouache, Le Coeur, Apostolopoulos, & Pavlopoulos, 2012;Fouache et al, 2005;Kraft, Rapp, & Aschenbrenner, 1998;Vött, 2007). This research has provided multiple reconstructions of coastal landscape changes during the Holocene, highlighting a general phenomenon of deltaic progradation starting from ca.…”

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Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Holocene coastal sediments adjacent to archaeological ruins in Aqaba, Jordan

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