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Extreme storms during the last 6500 years from lagoonal sedimentary archives in the Mar Menor (SE Spain)
Laurent Dezileau
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Geosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, UMR 5243, Montpellier, France
Angel Pérez-Ruzafa
Departamento de Ecologia e
Hidrologia, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia 30100, Spain
Philippe Blanchemanche
Laboratoire
d'Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes, Université Montpellier 3, CNRS, UMR
5140, Montpellier, France
Jean-Philippe Degeai
Laboratoire
d'Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes, Université Montpellier 3, CNRS, UMR
5140, Montpellier, France
Otmane Raji
Geosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, UMR 5243, Montpellier, France
Department of Earth Sciences, Université
MohammedV-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco
Philippe Martinez
Université Bordeaux 1, EPOC, CNRS, UMR
5805, Bordeaux, France
Concepcion Marcos
Departamento de Ecologia e
Hidrologia, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia 30100, Spain
Ulrich Von Grafenstein
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
CNRS/CEA, Saclay, France
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Amongst the most devastating marine catastrophes that can occur in coastal areas are storms and tsunamis, which may seriously endanger human society. In a sediment core from the Mar Menor (SE Spain), we discovered eight coarse-grained layers which document marine incursions during periods of intense storm activity or tsunami events. These periods of surge events seem to coincide with the coldest periods in Europe during the late Holocene, suggesting a control by a climatic mechanism.
Amongst the most devastating marine catastrophes that can occur in coastal areas are storms and...
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