<?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%">Stocchi, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pirazzoli, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilopoulos, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruggieri, G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vermeersen, B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spada, G.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sea-level change model predictions based on geomorphological data in Cyclades (Greece) and Tunisia.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Geosciences Union, General Assembly</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2-7 May</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 palaeo relative sea-level indicators are the most important type of data as far as the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment&amp;nbsp;(GIA) related to the Last Glacial Maximum is concerned. The geomorphological and archaeological&amp;nbsp;indicators have recorded the long-term sea-level variation that accompanied and followed the melting of the Late&amp;nbsp;Pleistocene ice sheets. This bathymetry change stems for the combined effects of the eustatic sea-level change, the&amp;nbsp;gravitational interactions between the geoid and the ice sheets and the deformation of the solid Earth. Since these&amp;nbsp;three factors are fully described by the sea level equation in a self-consistent manner, the comparison of relative&amp;nbsp;sea-level (rsl) data and predicted Holocene curves provides fundamental constraints on the GIA models. While the&amp;nbsp;rsl data from the formerly glaciated area may provide constraints on both the extent and thickness with time of the&amp;nbsp;ice sheets and the local shallow Earth structure and rheology, the palaeo sea-levels from the Mediterranean Sea&amp;nbsp;may constrain the volumes of melt water that has been globally released through time and also the lower mantle&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;rheological parameters.&amp;nbsp;In this work we combine archaeological and geomorphological rsl indicators with GIA-model predictions to investigate&amp;nbsp;the Holocene sea level changes in Tunisia and Cyclades islands (Central Aegean). While the former area has&amp;nbsp;been proven to be vertically stable on the long timescale, the Central Aegean could be affected by local tectonics&amp;nbsp;that would result in vertical deformations. We therefore compare at first the available rsl data from Tunisia with&amp;nbsp;GIA predictions based on a suite of available late Pleistocene ice chronologies and Earth rheological models. We&amp;nbsp;find the best combination of ice and earth models to explain the rsl data from Tunisia and finally apply those to&amp;nbsp;investigate the vertical stability at the Cyclades islands and to quantify the tectonics-related rates of vertical crustal&amp;nbsp;deformation.&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>