<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sivan, D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dean, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sisma-Ventura, G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bechor, B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baika, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Theodoulou, T.A.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Re-assessing the last 3.000 years of archaeological and biological sea-level data from Israel and Greece to identify East Mediterranean trends.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EGU General Assembly</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17-22 April</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vienna, Austria</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div&gt;The last 3,000 years of relative sea level (RSL) in Israel are derived primarily from archaeological indicators with&amp;nbsp;additional bio-construction indicators (Dendropoma petraeum reefs at the edge of the abrasion platform along the&amp;nbsp;Israeli coast). The current study examines whether sea-level fluctuations (above and mainly below present-day&amp;nbsp;MSL) observed along the coast of Israel can also be observed in other East Mediterranean areas like Greece so that&amp;nbsp;better evaluations can be made of local and regional driving mechanisms. There are three objectives for achieving&amp;nbsp;this goal: 1) Identify new and already published archaeological and biological RSL indicators from this period&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;in Israel and Greece; 2) Assess the reliability of both existing and new indicators using consistent standards to&amp;nbsp;determine which types most accurately indicate ancient RSL and with what degree of uncertainty; 3) Correct the&amp;nbsp;data for isostatic and tectonic effects.&amp;nbsp;The survey collected nearly 140 archaeological indicators from Israel and about 120 from Greece. Of the Israeli&amp;nbsp;indicators, some 120 were deemed reliable enough for reconstructions, whereas in Greece only 40 were, and not&amp;nbsp;all of these from tectonically stable areas. The Israeli data includes 31 dates obtained from Dendropoma reefs&amp;nbsp;in Israel. The higher reliability of the Israeli dataset may stem from a smaller coastline and more focused SL&amp;nbsp;research over the past few decades. In Greece, many measurements were taken before precise surveying methods&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;were available, and published without sufficient metadata. The two regional datasets reveal chronological gaps&amp;nbsp;and disparities: Israel has a strong set of many indicators from the Roman Period (2000BP) to present, but&amp;nbsp;fewer from 3000-2000BP, while Greek indicators are strongly clustered in the Classical to Hellenistic Periods&amp;nbsp;(2500-2000BP). On-going research is focusing now also on the last Millennial Greek sea levels (mainly the&amp;nbsp;‘Venetian’ period). Results however suggest some correspondence and support previous Israeli conclusions&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;suggesting somewhat lower levels around 2500BP and in the first half of the last Millennium: The Crusader period&amp;nbsp;in Israel (11th to 13th century AD) and the Venetian period in Greece (12th to 15th century AD). Near-present,&amp;nbsp;stable levels are indicated during most other periods, despite indications of slightly higher sea levels in the late&amp;nbsp;Roman/Byzantine period.&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>