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Temporal variations in sedimentation patterns: NW Aegean Sea

Temporal variations in sedimentation patterns: NW Aegean Sea
Temporal variations in sedimentation patterns: NW Aegean Sea
Cores are examined from the northern continental slope environment of the Sporadhes Basin, the western part of the North Aegean Sea Trough. Three distinct lithofacies have been identified, which correspond with similar environments identified elsewhere in the western and southeastern Mediterranean. These layers, turbiditic mud — hemipelagic mud ? calcareous ooze, represent late Quaternary climatic and eustatic sea level changes and tectonic activity.

Based on benthic foraminiferal evidence from the eastern part of the North Aegean Sea Trough, it is suggested that contemporary sediment supply and physical oceanographic conditions in the area under investigation might be conducive to sapropel formation; also, that the depositional sequence in the cores represents a gradual recovery in the Mediterranean Sea, since its last stagnation and sapropel formation some 8000 years ago.
0025-3227
M39-M48
Collins, M.B.
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Lykousis, V.
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Ferentinos, G.
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Collins, M.B.
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Lykousis, V.
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Ferentinos, G.
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Collins, M.B., Lykousis, V. and Ferentinos, G. (1981) Temporal variations in sedimentation patterns: NW Aegean Sea. Marine Geology, 43 (1-2), M39-M48. (doi:10.1016/0025-3227(81)90125-0).

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Cores are examined from the northern continental slope environment of the Sporadhes Basin, the western part of the North Aegean Sea Trough. Three distinct lithofacies have been identified, which correspond with similar environments identified elsewhere in the western and southeastern Mediterranean. These layers, turbiditic mud — hemipelagic mud ? calcareous ooze, represent late Quaternary climatic and eustatic sea level changes and tectonic activity.

Based on benthic foraminiferal evidence from the eastern part of the North Aegean Sea Trough, it is suggested that contemporary sediment supply and physical oceanographic conditions in the area under investigation might be conducive to sapropel formation; also, that the depositional sequence in the cores represents a gradual recovery in the Mediterranean Sea, since its last stagnation and sapropel formation some 8000 years ago.

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Published date: September 1981

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Local EPrints ID: 201565
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/201565
ISSN: 0025-3227
PURE UUID: ab9a7540-829d-4f7b-8612-bdb8fc210a72

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Date deposited: 28 Oct 2011 13:51
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 04:22

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Author: M.B. Collins
Author: V. Lykousis
Author: G. Ferentinos

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