Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets

Solving the sea-level equation for a spherically symmetric Earth we study the relative sea-level curves in the Mediterranean Sea in terms of Clark’s zones and we explore their sensitivity to the time-history of Late-Pleistocene ice aggregates. Since the Mediterranean is an intermediate field region...

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Main Authors: Stocchi, P., Spada, G.
Other Authors: Stocchi, P.; Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy, Spada, G.; Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy, #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#, Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy
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Language:English
Published: 2007
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sea-level variations
glacial isostasy
Mediterranean Sea
03. Hydrosphere::03.02. Hydrology::03.02.99. General or miscellaneous
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Sheet
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Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets
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description Solving the sea-level equation for a spherically symmetric Earth we study the relative sea-level curves in the Mediterranean Sea in terms of Clark’s zones and we explore their sensitivity to the time-history of Late-Pleistocene ice aggregates. Since the Mediterranean is an intermediate field region with respect to the former ice sheets, glacio- and hydro-isostasy both contribute to sea-level variations throughout the Holocene. In the bulk of the basin, subsidence of the sea floor results in a monotonous sea-level rise, whereas along continental margins water loading produces the effect of «continental levering», which locally originates marked highstands followed by a sea-level fall. To describe such peculiar pattern of relative sea-level in this and other mid-latitude closed basins we introduce a new Clark’s zone (namely, Clark’s zone VII). Using a suite of publicly available ice sheet chronologies, we identify for the first time a distinct sensitivity of predictions to the Antarctic ice sheet. In particular, we show that the history of mid to Late Holocene sea-level variations along the coasts of SE Tunisia may mainly reflect the melting of Antarctica, by a consequence of a mutual cancellation of the effects from the Northern Hemisphere ice-sheets at this specific site. Ice models incorporating a delayed melting of Antarctica may account for the observations across the Mediterranean, but fail to reproduce the SE Tunisia highstand. JCR Journal open
author2 Stocchi, P.; Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy
Spada, G.; Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy
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title Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets
title_short Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets
title_full Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets
title_fullStr Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets
title_full_unstemmed Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets
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spelling ftingv:oai:www.earth-prints.org:2122/4361 2023-05-15T13:51:40+02:00 Glacio and hydro-isostasy in the Mediterranean Sea: Clark’s zones and role of remote ice sheets Stocchi, P. Spada, G. Stocchi, P.; Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy Spada, G.; Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE# Istituto di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Urbino, Italy 2007-12 http://hdl.handle.net/2122/4361 en eng Annals of Geophysics 6/50 (2007) ALESSIO, M., L. ALLEGRI, F. ANTONIOLI, G. BELLUOMINI, S. IMPROTA, L. MANFRA and M. PREITE MARTINEZ (1994): La curva di risalita del mare Tirreno negli ultimi 43 ka ricavata da datazioni su speleotemi sommersi e dati archeologici, Mem. Descr. Carta Geol. d’Italia, LII, 261-276. ALOISI, J.C., A. MONACO, N. PLANCHAIS, J. THOMMERET and Y. THOMMERET (1978): The Holocene transgression in the Golfe du Lion, southwestern France: paleogeographic and paleobotanical evolution, Geogr. Phys. Quat., 32 (2), 145-162. ANTONIOLI, F. and M. FREZZOTTI (1989): I sedimenti tardopleistocenici e olocenici compresi nella fascia costiera tra Sabaudia e Sperlonga, Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital., 42, 321-334. ARGUS, D.F., W.R. PELTIER and M.M. WATKINS (1999): Glacial isostatic adjustment observed using very long baseline interferometry and satellite laser ranging geodesy, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (B12), 29077-29094. BENTLEY, M.J. (1999): Volume of Antarctic Ice at the Last Glacial Maximum, and its impact on global sea-level change, Quat. Sci. Rev., 18, 1569-1595. BINTANJA, R., R.S.W. VAN DE WAL and J. OERLEMANS (2002): Global ice volume variations through the last glacial cicle simulated by a 3D ice-dynamical model, Quat. Int., 95 (96), 11-23. CARMINATI, E. and G. DI DONATO (1999): Separating natural and anthropogenic vertical movements in fast subsiding areas: Po Plain (North Italy) case, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2291-2294. CIANETTI, S., C. GIUNCHI and G. SPADA (2002): Mantle viscosity beneath the Hudson Bay: an inversion based on the Metropolis algorithm, J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:10.1029/2001JB000585, 2352. CLARK, J.A. and C.S. LINGLE (1979): Predicted relative sealevel changes (18000 years BP to present) caused by late-glacial retreat of Antarctic ice sheet, Quat. Res., 11, 279-298. CLARK, J.A.,W.E. FARRELL and W.R. PELTIER (1978): Global changes in postglacial sea-level: a numerical calculation, Quat. Res., 9, 265-287. DENTON, G.H. and T.H. HUGHES (1981): The Last Greast Ice Sheets (John Wiley, New York), pp. 484. DENTON, G.H. and T.H. HUGHES (2002): Reconstructing the Antarctic ice sheet at the last glacial maximum, Quat. Sci. Rev., 21, 193-202. DUBAR, M. (1987): Donnees nouvelles sur la transgression holocène dans la region de Nice (France), Bull. Soc. Géol. France (Paris), Serie 8, 3 (1), 195-198. FARRELL, W.E. and J.A. CLARK (1976): On postglacial sealevel, Geophys. J.R. Astr. Soc., 46, 647-667. FLEMING, K., P. JOHNSTON, D. ZWARTZ, Y. YOKOAMA, K. LAMBECK and J. CHAPPELL (1998): Refining the eustatic sea-level curve since the Last Glacial Maximum using far- and intermediate- field sites, Quat. Res., 9, 265-287. FLEMMING, N.C. (1972): Eustatic and tectonic factors in the relative vertical displacement of the Aegean coast, in The Mediterranean Sea: a Natural Sedimentation Laboratory, edited by D.J. STANLEY (Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg), 180-201. GALILI, E., M. WEINSTEIN-EVRON and A. RONEN (1988): Holo-cene sea-level changes based on submerged archaeological sites of the Northern Carmel coast in Israel, Quat. Res., 29, 36-42. GOODWIN, I.D. (1996): A mid to Late-Holocene readvance of the Law Dome ice margin, Budd Coast, East Antarctica, Antarctic Sci., 8, 395-406. GOODWIN, I.D. (1998): Did changes in Antarctic ice volume influence the Late-Holocene sea-level lowering?, Quat. Sci. Rev., 17, 319-332. HUYBRECHTS, P. (1992): The Antarctic ice sheet and environmental change: a three-dimensional modelling study, Rep. Polar Res. (Alfred Wegener Institute, Brehemerhaven), 99, pp. 242. HUYBRECHTS, P. (2002): Sea-level changes at the LGM from ice-dynamic reconstructions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets during the glacial cicles, Quat. Sci. Rev., 21, 203-231. JEDOUI, Y., N. KALLEL, M. FUNTUGNE, H.B. ISMAIL, A. M’RABET and M. MONTACER (1998): A high relative sea-level stand in the middle Holocene in southeastern Tunisia, Mar. Geol., 147, 123-130. KAUFMANN, G. (2002): Predictions of secular geoid changes from the Late-Pleistocene and Holocene Antarctic iceocean mass imbalance, Geophys. J. Int., 148 (2), 340- 347. LABOREL, J., M. AARNOLD, F. LABOREL-DEGUEN, C. MORHANGE and N. TISNERAT-LABARD (1998): Confirmation of a Pleistocene age for the marine notch at Cap Romarin (Port-La-Nouvelle, Languedoc, France), Geomorfol. Relief. Process. Environ., 2, 125-130. LAMBECK, K. (1993): Glacial rebound of the British Isles- II. A high-resolution, high-precision model, Geophys. J. Int., 115, 960-990. LAMBECK, K. (1995): Late-Pleistocene and Holocene sealevel change in Greece and south-western Turkey: a separation of eustatic, isostatic and tectonic contributions, Geophys. J. Int., 122, 1022-1044. LAMBECK, K. and E. BARD (2000): sea-level changes along the French Mediterranean coast from the past 30000 years, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 175, 203-222. LAMBECK, K. and A. PURCELL (2005): Sea-level change in the Mediterranean Sea since th LGM: model predictions for tectonically stable areas, Quat. Sci. Rev., 24, 1969-1988. LAMBECK, K., A. PURCELL, P. JOHNSTON, M. NAKADA and Y. 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In the bulk of the basin, subsidence of the sea floor results in a monotonous sea-level rise, whereas along continental margins water loading produces the effect of «continental levering», which locally originates marked highstands followed by a sea-level fall. To describe such peculiar pattern of relative sea-level in this and other mid-latitude closed basins we introduce a new Clark’s zone (namely, Clark’s zone VII). Using a suite of publicly available ice sheet chronologies, we identify for the first time a distinct sensitivity of predictions to the Antarctic ice sheet. In particular, we show that the history of mid to Late Holocene sea-level variations along the coasts of SE Tunisia may mainly reflect the melting of Antarctica, by a consequence of a mutual cancellation of the effects from the Northern Hemisphere ice-sheets at this specific site. Ice models incorporating a delayed melting of Antarctica may account for the observations across the Mediterranean, but fail to reproduce the SE Tunisia highstand. JCR Journal open Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet Earth-Prints (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) Antarctic The Antarctic Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 107 B12 ETG 12-1 ETG 12-15

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