Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia
During the late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene, the Medjerda river system in Mediterranean Tunisia shows events of increased flooding and aggradation of relatively coarse overbank deposits. Geomorphic activity in river systems within this region correlate with aridification of the climate, but not with...
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crsagepubl:10.1191/0959683604hl765rp 2024-10-13T14:09:12+00:00 Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia Zielhofer, Christoph Faust, Dominik Escudero, Rafael Baena del Olmo, Fernando Diaz Kadereit, Annette Moldenhauer, Klaus-Martin Porras, Ana 2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0959683604hl765rp https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/0959683604hl765rp en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license The Holocene volume 14, issue 6, page 851-861 ISSN 0959-6836 1477-0911 journal-article 2004 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683604hl765rp 2024-09-24T04:11:40Z During the late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene, the Medjerda river system in Mediterranean Tunisia shows events of increased flooding and aggradation of relatively coarse overbank deposits. Geomorphic activity in river systems within this region correlate with aridification of the climate, but not with temperature. The late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Ghardimaou floodplain (mid-Medjerda river) indicates fluvial activity from 12.4 to 11.8, 6.6 to 6.0 and after 4.8 ka cal. BP. External correlations imply global and regional causes of the late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene climatic development such as North Atlantic deep-water formation, fluctuations in Saharan humidity and impacts of local Mediterranean weather phenomena. Palaeomagnetic records offer additional opportunities to interpret fluvial activity in river systems, especially for detecting chronological hiatuses in apparently homogeneous sediment sequences. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic SAGE Publications The Holocene 14 6 851 861 |
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During the late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene, the Medjerda river system in Mediterranean Tunisia shows events of increased flooding and aggradation of relatively coarse overbank deposits. Geomorphic activity in river systems within this region correlate with aridification of the climate, but not with temperature. The late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Ghardimaou floodplain (mid-Medjerda river) indicates fluvial activity from 12.4 to 11.8, 6.6 to 6.0 and after 4.8 ka cal. BP. External correlations imply global and regional causes of the late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene climatic development such as North Atlantic deep-water formation, fluctuations in Saharan humidity and impacts of local Mediterranean weather phenomena. Palaeomagnetic records offer additional opportunities to interpret fluvial activity in river systems, especially for detecting chronological hiatuses in apparently homogeneous sediment sequences. |
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Zielhofer, Christoph Faust, Dominik Escudero, Rafael Baena del Olmo, Fernando Diaz Kadereit, Annette Moldenhauer, Klaus-Martin Porras, Ana Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia |
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Zielhofer, Christoph Faust, Dominik Escudero, Rafael Baena del Olmo, Fernando Diaz Kadereit, Annette Moldenhauer, Klaus-Martin Porras, Ana |
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Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia |
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Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia |
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Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia |
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Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia |
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Centennial-scale late-Pleistocene to mid-Holocene synthetic profile of the Medjerda Valley, northern Tunisia |
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centennial-scale late-pleistocene to mid-holocene synthetic profile of the medjerda valley, northern tunisia |
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