@conference {11969,
	title = {Sea-level change model predictions based on geomorphological data in Cyclades (Greece) and Tunisia.},
	booktitle = {European Geosciences Union, General Assembly},
	year = {2010},
	month = {2-7 May},
	address = {Vienna, Austria},
	abstract = {<div>The palaeo relative sea-level indicators are the most important type of data as far as the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment\&nbsp;(GIA) related to the Last Glacial Maximum is concerned. The geomorphological and archaeological\&nbsp;indicators have recorded the long-term sea-level variation that accompanied and followed the melting of the Late\&nbsp;Pleistocene ice sheets. This bathymetry change stems for the combined effects of the eustatic sea-level change, the\&nbsp;gravitational interactions between the geoid and the ice sheets and the deformation of the solid Earth. Since these\&nbsp;three factors are fully described by the sea level equation in a self-consistent manner, the comparison of relative\&nbsp;sea-level (rsl) data and predicted Holocene curves provides fundamental constraints on the GIA models. While the\&nbsp;rsl data from the formerly glaciated area may provide constraints on both the extent and thickness with time of the\&nbsp;ice sheets and the local shallow Earth structure and rheology, the palaeo sea-levels from the Mediterranean Sea\&nbsp;may constrain the volumes of melt water that has been globally released through time and also the lower mantle</div>
<div>rheological parameters.\&nbsp;In this work we combine archaeological and geomorphological rsl indicators with GIA-model predictions to investigate\&nbsp;the Holocene sea level changes in Tunisia and Cyclades islands (Central Aegean). While the former area has\&nbsp;been proven to be vertically stable on the long timescale, the Central Aegean could be affected by local tectonics\&nbsp;that would result in vertical deformations. We therefore compare at first the available rsl data from Tunisia with\&nbsp;GIA predictions based on a suite of available late Pleistocene ice chronologies and Earth rheological models. We\&nbsp;find the best combination of ice and earth models to explain the rsl data from Tunisia and finally apply those to\&nbsp;investigate the vertical stability at the Cyclades islands and to quantify the tectonics-related rates of vertical crustal\&nbsp;deformation.</div>},
	author = {Stocchi, P. and Evelpidou, N. and Pirazzoli, P. and Vassilopoulos, A. and Ruggieri, G. and Vermeersen, B. and Spada, G.}
}
