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| Harff, Jan; Flemming, Nicholas C; Groh, Andreas; Hunicke, Birgit; Lericolais, Gilles; Meschede, Martin; Rosentau, Alar; Sakellariou, Dimitris; Uscinowicz, Szymon; Zhang, Wenyan; Zorita, Eduardo. |
| This chapter gives an overview of the environmental changes to the European shelf and its marginal seas during the Late Pleistocene to the Middle Holocene. It first explains the regional tectonics of Europe. The age of the consolidation of the basement together with the plate tectonic setting serves as the main parameters determining coastal formation. Next, the chapter reviews the fluctuation of glacial and interglacial stadia as an effect of orbital parameters of the Earth around the Sun. In addition, it examines eustatic change during the Last Glacial Cycle (LGC). The chapter also describes the development of the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Atlantic shelf, based on numerical sea-level scenarios constrained by observational data. Finally, it... |
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Palavras-chave: Baltic Sea; Climate change; Coastal formation; Environmental changes; European continental shelf; Eustatic change; Late Pleistocene; Middle Holocene; Sea level. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00391/50263/51051.pdf |
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| Flemming, Nicholas; Cagatay, M. Namik; Chiocci, Francesco Latino; Galanidou, Nena; Jons, Hauke; Lericolais, Gilles; Missiaen, Tine; Moore, Fionnbarr; Rosentau, Alar; Sakellariou, Dimitris; Skar, Brigitte; Stevenson, Alan; Weerts, Henk. |
| During the last one million years the land area of Europe was at times 40% larger than at present, and was usually 10-20% larger because of the global volumes of water locked up in ice-caps several kilometres thick on land. Our human precursors lived 200km inland from the coast of the Black Sea more than 1.5 million years ago, in northern Spain more than 1 million years ago, and on the British coast of the North Sea at least 800,000 years ago. Early tribes migrated from Africa through the Middle East, and then along the Mediterranean shore, as well as through central Europe, occupying northern territories when the ice melted and retreating southward when the ice expanded. These migrations across continental shelves, including the abandonment and... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00272/38363/36668.pdf |
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