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Open AccessThe unexpectedly short Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia
The early to middle Holocene Humid Period led to a greening of today’s arid Saharo-Arabian desert belt. While this phase is well defined in North Africa and the Southern Arabian Peninsula, robust evidence from...
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Was ist Geoarchäologie? – Eine Einführung
Das erste deutschsprachige Lehrbuch der Geoarchäologie ist das Produkt von fast 80 Autorinnen und Autoren aus mehr als 30 Arbeitsgruppen, die in dem seit 2004 bestehenden Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie organisiert s...
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Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Geoarchäologie
Die Geoarchäologie ist eine äußerst breit gefächerte wissenschaftliche Disziplin, die sich international und im deutschsprachigen Raum auf unterschiedliche Weise entwickelt hat. Die Beziehung zwischen Archäolo...
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At the Mercy of the Sea—Vulnerability of Roman Coastal Settlements in the Algarve (Portugal). Boca do Rio as an Emblematic Example of a Key Maritime Industry
The Roman fish-salting industry in the Western Mediterranean was concentrated in a high-risk geological area as regards extreme wave events. It underwent a significant and sudden decline and reorganisation bet...
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Geoarchäologie in unterschiedlichen Landschaftsräumen
Die geoarchäologische Forschung ist in starkem Maße vom jeweiligen Naturraum und seiner geomorphologischen und klimageographischen Ausstattung abhängig. Das Kapitel betrachtet zunächst fluviale Systeme in humi...
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The Baelo Claudia Tsunami Archive (SW Spain)—Archaeological Deposits of High-Energy Events
Over the past decades, substantial progress has been made in tsunami research. Be that as it may, little is still known about tsunami deposits and their related depositional mechanisms in coastal areas in hist...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: First experimental evaluation of the alpha efficiency in coarse-grained quartz for ESR dating purposes: implications for dose rate evaluation
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Noah’s Flood—Probing an Ancient Narrative Using Geoscience
This article sheds new light on the narrative of (Genesis Flood, ) from a geoscientific point of view. It outlines the four most popular hypotheses: (i) the postglacial–early flooding of the which fell ...
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Open AccessFirst experimental evaluation of the alpha efficiency in coarse-grained quartz for ESR dating purposes: implications for dose rate evaluation
We present the first experimental evaluation of the alpha efficiency value for electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of coarse quartz grains, which is used for the evaluation of the internal and external alpha ...
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Methodological approach for dating harbor sediments by using luminescence dating—a case study in Ephesus, Western Turkey
For this study, a 15-m sediment core from the Roman harbor of Ephesus has been dated with the luminescence technique. 14C age estimates from the same and a neighboring core were used for comparing and validating ...
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Correction to: Methodological approach for dating harbor sediments by using luminescence dating—a case study in Ephesus, Western Turkey
The original version of this article, unfortunately, contained error. Corresponding author name appeared in the article is “Prakrit Nopprakrit” instead of “Prakrit Noppradit”. Given in this article is the corr...
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Geochronology
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Rapid Delta Growth in Historical Times at Ephesus and Miletus—The Examples of the Küçük and the Büyük Menderes Rivers
Postglacial sea-level rise led to the development of extended marine gulfs in the grabens of the western margin of the Anatolian Plate. During the last seven millennia, these marine indentations have silted up...
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Fossil bog soils (‘dwog horizons’) and their relation to Holocene coastal changes in the Jade Weser region, southern North Sea, Germany
After the deceleration of the postglacial marine transgression, the German North Sea coast was subject to deposition of a complex pattern of subtidal to terrestrial facies. This study aims at reconstructing th...
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Geochronology
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A prehistoric tsunami induced long-lasting ecosystem changes on a semi-arid tropical island—the case of Boka Bartol (Bonaire, Leeward Antilles)
The Caribbean is highly vulnerable to coastal hazards. Based on their short recurrence intervals over the intra-American seas, high-category tropical cyclones and their associated effects of elevated storm sur...
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Open AccessThe Gyra washover fan in the Lefkada Lagoon, NW Greece—possible evidence of the 365 AD Crete earthquake and tsunami
Coastal geomorphological and geological archives store valuable information about the geodynamic evolution of coastal areas and the contributing geomorphodynamic processes. The coastal geomorphology of the Lef...
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Open AccessShoreline changes and high-energy wave impacts at the leeward coast of Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
Supralittoral coarse-clast deposits along the shores of Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) as well as increased hurricane frequency during the past decade testify to the major hazard of high-energy wave impacts in...
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Electron Spin Resonance Dating (ESR)
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Human induced landscape changes around Bafa Gölü (western Turkey)
A palynological and sedimentological investigation of two lake sediment cores retrieved from Bafa Gölü (western Turkey) was carried out as a contribution to the environmental history of the lower Büyük Mendere...
