Shelf inhabiting foraminifera as a tool for understanding late quaternary mass transport processes in the Northern Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea

Reply to the Comment by John J. G. Reijmer on ‘Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective’ by Ash‐Moret al. (2022), Sedimentology, 69, 1231–1251

“…These two objectives were fulfilled in our papers. Our subsequent work on the Last Glacial sedimentary record in the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba (Ash‐Mor et al ., in review) shows that mass‐transport events, possibly triggered by seismic events, are also influenced by the low sea‐level conditions.…”

“…1 in Ash‐Mor et al ., 2017). Additional analysis on cores from the gulf is presented in an upcoming paper (Ash‐Mor et al ., in review), which includes the identification of: (i) a ‘Holocene assemblage’ dominated by the stenohaline symbiont‐bearing larger species Operculina ammonoides , Amphistegina papillosa and Amphistegina bicirculata ; and (ii) a ‘Glacial assemblage’ dominated by the hypersaline tolerant species Elphidium cf. E. limbatum, Elphidium jenseni and Peneroplis planatus , which represented the change in water salinity related to sea‐level (Reiss et al ., 1980).…”