The geological record of a mid-Holocene marine storm in southwestern Spain

Muñoz, Francisco Ruíz; Borrego, J.; López-González, N.; Abad, Manuel; Montero, María Luz González-Regalado; Carro, B.; Pendón, José Gabriel; Prudêncio, M.I.; Dias, María Isabel

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“…5700-5600 cal BP, and interpreted in two studies as storm-generated (Lario, 1996;Ruiz et al, 2007). Similar deposits occurring at the Dofiana marshlands have been assigned to a tsunami at5300 cal BP (Ruiz et al, 2005;Caceres et al, 2006).…”

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“…Most surveys of EWEs in the area have concentrated on: Guadalquivir (Lario et al, 1995(Lario et al, , 2001aLario, 1996;Ruiz et al, 2004Ruiz et al, , 2005Caceres et al, 2006), Tinto-Odiel (Lario, 1996;Ruiz et al, 2007;Morales et al, 2008), and Guadalete (Lario et al, 1995;Lario, 1996;Dabrio et al, 1999;Luque et al, 2001Luque et al, , 2002 estuaries, the littoral lowland on the south-eastern coast of the Gulf of Cadiz (Luque, 2002;Kelletat, 2003, 2005;Alonso et al, 2004;Luque et al, 2004), and the Algarve ( Andrade, 1992;Dawson et al, 1996) ( Fig. 1).…”

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Holocene palaeotsunami catalogue of SW Iberia

Lario

Cardeña

Goy

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Quaternary International

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Many on-shore studies focused on high energy marine events occurred in the Gulf of Cadiz have been published since the 1990s. Most of the findings came from sedimentary, palaeontological and geomor phological records on estuaries, marshes, beach-barriers (spit-bars), and some coastal lowlands. Recent off-shore investigations in SW Iberia considered turbidite deposits as a proxy to recognise palae oearthquakes in this zone. The comparison of datasets from both on-shore and off-shore records indicate that at least five tsunami events generated by strong earthquakes affected this area during the last 7000 years, previous to the more recent and well-documented 1755 AD Lisbon earthquake tsunami event. The catalogue of Holocene palaeotsunami presented here is supported by geological and geomorphological evidences, but also for archaeoseismic and palaeoseismic evidence and written reports for the more recent events occurred during historical times. The recurrence interval for these catastrophic events can be bracketed between 1200 and 1500 years.

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Section: Record Of Ewe On-shorementioning

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Holocene palaeotsunami catalogue of SW Iberia

Lario

Cardeña

Goy

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“…Pero si ampliamos la escala y abarcamos más allá del espacio que comprende Cádiz e incorporando el SW de la Península Ibérica, se han llegado a comprobar cerca de cinco eventos energéticos o EWE (Extreme Wave Events) en los últimos 7.000 años (Lario et al, 2011;Ruiz et al, 2008). En el caso que nos ocupa, en las inmediaciones de los citados ríos Guadarranque y Palmones, hemos podido constatar un registro de cierta importancia que, cuanto menos, afectó a un segmento no desdeñable de la geografía del Campo de Gibraltar, por lo que nos sorprende que no exista de dicho evento información histórica alguna, a excepción de la tradición literaria que recoge la existencia de un gran cataclismo en relación con hipotéticas destrucciones en la ciudad de Carteia.…”

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“…Se iniciaron las investigaciones en 1994, centradas primero en la citada ciudad púnico-romana (Fase I: 1994(Fase I: -1999) . Posteriormente, continuamos los trabajos a poco más de dos kiló-metros al E del citado enclave, en la barriada de Puente Mayorga (2003-2008, mediante sucesivas actuaciones arqueológicas, tanto de carácter preventivo como de urgencia, provocadas por la construcción de una urbanización conocida hoy como "Villa Victoria". Aquel segundo periodo de trabajos se llevó a cabo en colaboración con investigadores de la Universidad de Cádiz (UCA) y permitió el estudio de un vicus altoimperial asociado a Carteia.…”

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Consideraciones paleogeográficas en la bahía de Algeciras. Acerca de un posible tsunami en la Carteia romana (San Roque, Cádiz)

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Algeciras, hoy desecada en esta zona y que, para el tema que nos ocupa, parecen confirmar la existencia e importancia del evento detectado en 2003.Palabras clave: tsunami; Carteia; bahía de Algeciras; paleogeografía; arqueología del paisaje. AbstractThe urgent excavations carried out in the Roman industrial district of Alfarera at Puente Mayorga (San Roque, Cádiz), between the years 2003 and 2004, provided us with interesting evidence that a tsumani may have occurred, as well as a comprehensive vision of the buildings that existed in the outskirts of Carteia. Through granulometric analysis, morphoscopic study and the identification of its malacofauna, the high level of sand documented, which was interpreted archaeologically as a hiatus between two productive phases in the industrial district Alfarera, was identified to be the result of a high energy wave.The need to confirm such an important finding and the fact that these studies, which were carried out by team of members from both the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad de Cádiz, were part of another larger, interdisciplinary study carried out by the UAM under the generic title Proyecto Carteia ("Carteia Project"), led to a series of geoarchaeological auger surveys in direct relation to this important Phoenician-Roman city, which were carried out in 2010.In this way, we were led to an area that spanned from the present mouth of the Guadarranque River to its far left, reached Carteia and then stretched as far as the Phoenician settlement of Cerro del Prado or Carteia la Vieja, where the original mouth of the river was in the 7 th century BC. A total of 8 auger surveys were carried out and in this paper we offer a preview of the findings of the first four of these, which took place between the current coastline and the walled slopes of the city of Carteia. In this way, we examine a more important part of the Bay of Algeciras, which has today dried up and which seems to confirm the occurrence, and significance, of the event that was detected in 2003.

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“…Ruiz et al, 2004Ruiz et al, , 2005Ruiz et al, , 2008Scheffers and Kelletat, 2005;Morales et al, 2008;Gracia et al, 2010;Lario et al, 2011;Cuven et al, 2013). Nevertheless, the calibrated ages of these events require a reassessment due to the publication of new data concerning the reservoir effect in this area (e.g., Soares, 2010).…”

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Sedimentological and geomorphological imprints of Holocene tsunamis in southwestern Spain: An approach to establish the recurrence period

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imentological and geomorphological imprints of Holocene tsunamis in southwestern Spain: An approach to establish the recurrence period, Geomorphology (2013), doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.09.008 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT AbstractThis paper reviews the sedimentological and geomorphological imprints of prehistoric and historical tsunamis in the four main estuaries of SW Spain.These imprints include beach erosion, filling of intertidal channels, deposition of bioclastic layers, washover fans and reworked aeolian sheets and the breaching of spits and tombolos. Most of these imprints were caused by the 218-209 BC and AD 1755 tsunamis, although evidence of other tsunamis has been identified. In these two events, effects on human populations were severe and diverse, such as human loss of life, changes in coastal settlements and international borders, damage to port infrastructure or flooding of marsh and A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT2 inhabited areas. New radiocarbon reservoir data were included in order to obtain an approach to the recurrence period of these high-energy events (700-1000 yr) in this area.

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The geological record of a mid-Holocene marine storm in southwestern Spain

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Holocene palaeotsunami catalogue of SW Iberia

Holocene palaeotsunami catalogue of SW Iberia

Consideraciones paleogeográficas en la bahía de Algeciras. Acerca de un posible tsunami en la Carteia romana (San Roque, Cádiz)

Sedimentological and geomorphological imprints of Holocene tsunamis in southwestern Spain: An approach to establish the recurrence period

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