Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the planktonic foraminifera as tracers of past
oceanic environments. Paleoceanography has always been closely connected with the …

Ice volume (and hence sea level) and deep-sea temperature are key measures of global
climate change. Sea level has been documented using several independent methods over …

The Mediterranean basin is sensitive to global sea-level changes and African monsoon
variability on orbital timescales. Both of these processes are thought to be important to the …

We present the updated Holocene section of the Sofular Cave record from the southern
Black Sea coast (northern Turkey); an area with considerably different present-day climate …

Organic-rich sedimentary units called sapropels have formed repeatedly in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea, in response to variations of solar radiation. Sapropel formation is due to …

Dark organic-rich layers (sapropels) have accumulated in Mediterranean sediments since
the Miocene due to deep-sea dysoxia and enhanced carbon burial at times of intensified …

Our current understanding of ocean–atmosphere–cryosphere interactions at ice-age
terminations relies largely on assessments of the most recent (last) glacial–interglacial …

The ITRAX micro-X-ray fluoresence (XRF) core scanner has been applied in a sediment
geochemistry investigation. The core sections selected contain examples of the organic-rich …

To unravel the climatic and environmental dynamics in the borderlands of the Aegean Sea
during the early and middle Holocene, and notably for the interval of sapropel S1 (S1) …