Varves in lake sediments–a review

B Zolitschka, P Francus, AEK Ojala… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Downcore counting of laminations in varved sediments offers a direct and incremental
dating technique for high-resolution climatic and environmental archives with at least annual …

Application of paleoseismic data to seismic hazard assessment and neotectonic research

JP McCalpin - International Geophysics, 2009 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Paleoseismic data can be used in the research of neotectonic
investigations and can provide relatively short-term geologic data that complements longer …

[图书][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Holocene climate variability and cultural evolution in the Near East from the Dead Sea sedimentary record

C Migowski, M Stein, S Prasad… - Quaternary …, 2006 - cambridge.org
A comprehensive record of lake level changes in the Dead Sea has been reconstructed
using multiple, well dated sediment cores recovered from the Dead Sea shore. Interpreting …

Recognition of trigger mechanisms for soft-sediment deformation in the Pleistocene lacustrine deposits of the SantʻArcangelo Basin (Southern Italy): seismic shock vs …

M Moretti, L Sabato - Sedimentary Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
The lacustrine deposits of the San Lorenzo Cycle belong to the infill succession of the
SantʻArcangelo Basin, a Pliocene to Pleistocene satellite basin, developed close to the …

Characteristics of sedimentary varve chronologies–a review

AEK Ojala, P Francus, B Zolitschka, M Besonen… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
We constructed a varve data base (VDB) to study the worldwide distribution of varved
sediment records and the fidelity of their varve chronologies. Clusters of lakes with varved …

[HTML][HTML] A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea

TE Bunch, MA LeCompte, AV Adedeji, JH Wittke… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We present evidence that in~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed
Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the …

A review of palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5000 years BP: setting the environmental background …

SA Robinson, S Black, BW Sellwood… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
The southern Levant has a long history of human habitation and it has been previously
suggested that climatic changes during the Late Pleistocene–Holocene stimulated changes …

Lacustrine turbidites as a tool for quantitative earthquake reconstruction: New evidence for a variable rupture mode in south central Chile

J Moernaut, MV Daele, K Heirman… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the long‐term earthquake recurrence pattern at subduction zones requires
continuous paleoseismic records with excellent temporal and spatial resolution and stable …

Holocene climate variability in the Levant from the Dead Sea pollen record

T Litt, C Ohlwein, FH Neumann, A Hense… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Dead Sea, located at the deepest place on continent and between the subtropical
Mediterranean zone and the desert, reflects in its water composition and levels, and …