Black Sea outflow response to Holocene meltwater events
During the Holocene, North American ice sheet collapse and rapid sea-level rise reconnected the Black Sea with the global ocean. Rapid meltwater releases into the North Atlantic and associated climate change arguably slowed the pace of Neolithisation across southeastern Europe, originally hypothesiz...
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ftunivfrankfurt:oai:publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de:46486 2023-11-12T04:18:44+01:00 Black Sea outflow response to Holocene meltwater events Herrle, Jens Olaf Bollmann, Jörg Gebühr, Christina Schulz, Hartmut Sheward, Rosie M. Giesenberg, Annika 2018-03-06 application/octet-stream http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46486 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-464862 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22453-z http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/46486/container.zip eng eng http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46486 urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-464862 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-464862 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22453-z http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/46486/container.zip http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess ddc:550 article doc-type:article 2018 ftunivfrankfurt https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22453-z 2023-10-29T23:41:58Z During the Holocene, North American ice sheet collapse and rapid sea-level rise reconnected the Black Sea with the global ocean. Rapid meltwater releases into the North Atlantic and associated climate change arguably slowed the pace of Neolithisation across southeastern Europe, originally hypothesized as a catastrophic flooding that fueled culturally-widespread deluge myths. However, we currently lack an independent record linking the timing of meltwater events, sea-level rise and environmental change with the timing of Neolithisation in southeastern Europe. Here, we present a sea surface salinity record from the Northern Aegean Sea indicative of two meltwater events at ~8.4 and ~7.6 kiloyears that can be directly linked to rapid declines in the establishment of Neolithic sites in southeast Europe. The meltwater events point to an increased outflow of low salinity water from the Black Sea driven by rapid sea level rise >1.4 m following freshwater outbursts from Lake Agassiz and the final decay of the Laurentide ice sheet. Our results shed new light on the link between catastrophic sea-level rise and the Neolithisation of southeastern Europe, and present a historical example of how coastal populations could have been impacted by future rapid sea-level rise. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet North Atlantic Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Scientific Reports 8 1 |
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During the Holocene, North American ice sheet collapse and rapid sea-level rise reconnected the Black Sea with the global ocean. Rapid meltwater releases into the North Atlantic and associated climate change arguably slowed the pace of Neolithisation across southeastern Europe, originally hypothesized as a catastrophic flooding that fueled culturally-widespread deluge myths. However, we currently lack an independent record linking the timing of meltwater events, sea-level rise and environmental change with the timing of Neolithisation in southeastern Europe. Here, we present a sea surface salinity record from the Northern Aegean Sea indicative of two meltwater events at ~8.4 and ~7.6 kiloyears that can be directly linked to rapid declines in the establishment of Neolithic sites in southeast Europe. The meltwater events point to an increased outflow of low salinity water from the Black Sea driven by rapid sea level rise >1.4 m following freshwater outbursts from Lake Agassiz and the final decay of the Laurentide ice sheet. Our results shed new light on the link between catastrophic sea-level rise and the Neolithisation of southeastern Europe, and present a historical example of how coastal populations could have been impacted by future rapid sea-level rise. |
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Herrle, Jens Olaf Bollmann, Jörg Gebühr, Christina Schulz, Hartmut Sheward, Rosie M. Giesenberg, Annika |
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Black Sea outflow response to Holocene meltwater events |
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Black Sea outflow response to Holocene meltwater events |
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