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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-711-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-711-2017
Research article
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19 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 19 Jun 2017

Extreme flood event reconstruction spanning the last century in the El Bibane Lagoon (southeastern Tunisia): a multi-proxy approach

Aida Affouri, Laurent Dezileau, and Nejib Kallel

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The past flood activity was investigated using a sedimentological and geochemical analysis of surfaces sediments from a southeastern Tunisian catchment in order to trace the origin of sediments deposit in the El Bibane Lagoon. Aeolian, fluvial and marine source. This multi-proxy analysis on the BL12-10 core shows that finer material, a high content of clay and silt, and a high content of the elemental ratios Fe / Ca and Ti / Ca characterise the sedimentological signature of palaeo-flood levels.