@article {1182,
	title = {Late Glacial-Holocene climate variability at the south-eastern margin of the Aegean Sea},
	journal = {Marine Geology},
	volume = {266},
	year = {2009},
	note = {Cited By (since 1996):34Export Date: 22 October 2014},
	month = {2009},
	pages = {182 - 197},
	abstract = {<span>New micropaleontological, palynological, and geochemical results from a relatively shallow (\~{}500 m)\&nbsp;sediment core (NS-14) in the south-eastern Aegean Sea provide a detailed picture of the regional expression\&nbsp;of sapropel S1 formation in this sub-basin of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, freshwater input\&nbsp;during \~{}10.6{\textendash}10.0 ka BP has preceded the deposition of S1. Further decrease in surface water salinity is\&nbsp;evidenced between 10.0 and 8.5 ka BP at the lower part of S1a, which in respect to S1b, is featured by\&nbsp;warmer (\~{}19.5 {\textdegree}C) and more productive surface waters associated with dysoxic bottom conditions. A series\&nbsp;of coolings detected within the S1 depositional interval, may be linked to outbursts of cold northerly air\&nbsp;masses and relevant pulses in the deep-intermediate water ventilation that caused the S1 interruption\&nbsp;between 7.9 and 7.3 ka BP and culminated during the deposition of S1b, with the decline of deep chlorophyll\&nbsp;maximum (DCM) at \~{}6.5 ka BP. The climate instability and the relevant absence of anoxia weakened the\&nbsp;organic matter preservation in the shallow south-eastern Aegean margin during the S1 times. NS-14 record\&nbsp;provides evidence for a distinct mid Holocene warm (up to \~{}25 {\textdegree}C) and wet phase associated with the\&nbsp;deposition of the sapropel-like layer SMH (Sapropel Mid Holocene), between 5.4 and 4.3 ka BP. The SMH\&nbsp;layer could represent evidence of on-going, albeit weak, African monsoon forcing, only expressed at the\&nbsp;south-eastern edge of the Aegean Sea. Its end is associated with the 4.2 ka BP Northern Hemisphere megadrought\&nbsp;event and the termination of the African Humid Period at 3.8 ka BP.</span>},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322709002229},
	author = {Triantaphyllou, M.V. and Ziveri, P. and Gogou, A. and Marino, G. and Lykousis, V. and Bouloubassi, I. and Emeis, K.-C. and Kouli, K. and Dimiza, M. and Rosell-Mel{\'e}, A. and Papanikolaou, M. and Katsouras, G. and Nunez, N.}
}
