Submerged landscapes of the European continental shelf : Quaternary paleoenvironments

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by  Flemming, Nicholas Coit

SUBMERGED LANDSCAPES
OF THE EUROPEAN
CONTINENTAL SHELF
Quaternary Paleoenvironments
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SUBMERGED LANDSCAPES
OF THE EUROPEAN
CONTINENTAL SHELF
Quaternary Paleoenvironments
Edited by
Nicholas C. Flemming
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Jan Harff
University of Szczecin, Poland
Delminda Moura
University of Algarve, Portugal
Anthony Burgess
University of Malta, Malta
Geoffrey N. Bailey
University of York, UK
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Names:Flemming,N.C.(NicholasCoit)
Title:SubmergedlandscapesoftheEuropeancontinentalshelf:Quaternarypaleoenvironments/editedbyNicholasC.
Flemming[andfourothers].
Description:Hoboken,NJ:JohnWiley&Sons,Inc.,2017–|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Identifiers:LCCN2016053352|ISBN9781118922132(cloth)|ISBN9781118927717(epub)
Subjects:LCSH:Paleoclimatology–Quaternary.|Paleoclimatology–Europe.|Submergedlands–Europe.|Continental
shelf–Europe.|Archaeology–Europe.
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Contents
CONTRIBUTORS vii 8 NorthernNorthSeaandAtlanticNorthwest
FOREWORD xi Approaches 187
PREFACE xv SueDawson,RichardBates,Caroline
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT xvii Wickham-JonesandAlastairDawson
1 Introduction:PrehistoricRemainsonthe 9 PaleolandscapesoftheCelticSeaandthe
ContinentalShelf—WhydoSitesand Channel/LaManche 211
LandscapesSurviveInundation? 1 R.HelenFarr,GarryMomber,JulieSatchell
NicholasC.Flemming,JanHarff,Delminda andNicholasC.Flemming
Moura,AnthonyBurgessandGeoffreyN.Bailey
10 IrishSeaandAtlanticMargin 241
2 SeaLevelandClimate 11 KieranWestleyandRobinEdwards
JanHarff,NicholasC.Flemming,Andreas
Groh,BirgitHu¨nicke,GillesLericolais,Martin 11 TheIberianAtlanticMargin 281
Meschede,AlarRosentau,DimitrisSakellariou, DelmindaMoura,AnaGomesandJoa˜oHorta
SzymonU´scinowicz,WenyanZhangand
EduardoZorita 12 TheWesternMediterraneanSea 301
MiquelCanals,IsabelCacho,LaurentCarozza,
3 Non-CulturalProcessesofSiteFormation, Jos´eLuisCasamor,GaldericLastrasandAnna
PreservationandDestruction 51 Sa`nchez-Vidal
NicholasC.Flemming,JanHarffand
DelmindaMoura 12 WesternMediterranean:Annex
SubmergedKarstStructuresoftheFrench
4 StandardCoreVariablesforContinentalShelf MediterraneanCoast:AnAssessment 333
PrehistoricResearchandTheirAvailability 83 YvesBillaud
NicholasC.Flemming
13 TheCentralMediterranean 341
5 TheBalticSeaBasin 103 FabrizioAntonioli,FrancescoL.Chiocci,
AlarRosentau,OleBennike,Szymon MarcoAnzidei,LucillaCapotondi,Daniele
U´scinowiczandGraz˙ynaMiotk-Szpiganowicz Casalbore,DonatellaMagriandSergioSilenzi
6 TheNorthwestShelf 135 14 PhysicalCharacteristicsoftheContinental
KieranWestley ShelvesoftheEastMediterraneanBasin,
SubmergedSettlementsandLandscapes—
7 TheNorthSea 147 ActualFindsandPotentialDiscoveries 377
KimM.Cohen,KieranWestley,GillesErkens, EhudGalili,YaacovNir,DinaVachtmanand
MarcP.HijmaandHenkJ.T.Weerts YossiMart
vi CONTENTS
15 LatePleistoceneEnvironmentalFactorsof 17 LatePleistoceneEnvironmentalFactors
theAegeanRegion(AegeanSeaIncluding definingtheBlackSea,andSubmerged
theHellenicArc)andtheIdentificationof LandscapesontheWesternContinental
PotentialAreasforSeabedPrehistoricSites Shelf 479
andLandscapes 405 GillesLericolais
DimitrisSakellariou,VasilisLykousis,Maria
Geraga,GrigorisRousakisandTakvorSoukisian 18 SubmergedPrehistoricHeritagePotentialof
theRomanianBlackSeaShelf 497
16 GeologicalandGeomorphologicalFactors GlicherieCaraivan,ValentinaVoinea,
andMarineConditionsoftheAzov-Black DanielaPopescuandCorneliuCerchia
SeaBasinandCoastalCharacteristicsas
TheyDetermineProspectingforSeabed GLOSSARYOFACRONYMS 519
PrehistoricSitesontheContinentalShelf 431 INDEX 523
ValentinaYanko-Hombach,Evgeny
Schnyukov,AnatolyPasynkov,Valentin
Sorokin,PavelKuprin,NikolayMaslakov,
IrenaMotnenkoandOlenaSmyntyna
Contributors
FabrizioAntonioli MiquelCanals
ENEA,Roma,Italy GRC Geocie`ncies Marines, Dept. de Dina`mica de la
Email:[email protected] Terra i de l’Ocea`, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain
MarcoAnzidei Email:[email protected]
INGV,Rome,Italy
LucillaCapotondi
GeoffreyN.Bailey CNR,ISMAR,Bologna,Italy
DepartmentofArchaeology,UniversityofYork,UK
Email:[email protected] GlicherieCaraivan
NationalResearchandDevelopmentInstituteforMarine
RichardBates GeologyandGeoecology,ConstantaBranch,Romania
Department of Earth Sciences and Scottish Oceans Email:[email protected]
Institute,UniversityofStAndrews,Fife,Scotland,UK
Email:[email protected] LaurentCarozza
UMR 5602 Ge´ode Ge´ographie de l’Environnement,
OleBennike Maison de la Recherche de l’Universite´ du Mirail,
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copen- Toulouse,France
hagen,Denmark
Email:[email protected] DanieleCasalbore
UniversityLaSapienza,Rome,Italy
YvesBillaud
Ministe`redelaCulture/DRASSM,Marseille,France Jose´LuisCasamor
GRC Geocie`ncies Marines, Dept. de Dina`mica de la
CNRS, UMR 5204 Edytem, Universite´ de Savoie, Le
Terra i de l’Ocea`, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,
Bourget-du-Lac,France
Spain
Email:[email protected]
CorneliuCerchia
AnthonyBurgess
NationalResearchandDevelopmentInstituteforMarine
UniversityofMalta,DepartmentofClassicsandArchae-
GeologyandGeoecology,ConstantaBranch,Romania
ology,ArchaeologyCentre,Malta
Email:[email protected]
FrancescoL.Chiocci
EarthScienceDept.UniversityLaSapienza,Rome,Italy
IsabelCacho
GRC Geocie`ncies Marines, Dept. de Dina`mica de la
Terra i de l’Ocea`, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain
viii CONTRIBUTORS
KimM.Cohen MariaGeraga
UtrechtUniversity,Utrecht,TheNetherlands Department of Geology & Geoenvironment, University
ofPatras,Greece
TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Utrecht,
TheNetherlands
AnaGomes
Email:[email protected]
Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Cieˆncias e Tec-
DeltaresResearchInstitute,Utrecht,TheNetherlands nologia, Centro de Investigac¸a˜o Marinha e Ambiental
(CIMA),Faro,Portugal
AlastairDawson Email:[email protected]
Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences,
UniversityofAberdeen,StMary’s,Scotland,UK AndreasGroh
Email:[email protected] Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research
Centre for Geosciences, c/o DLR Oberpfaffenhofen,
SueDawson Wessling,Germany
Geography, School of Social Sciences, University of
Dundee,Scotland,UK JanHarff
Email:[email protected] UniversityofSzczecin,Szczecin,Poland
Email:[email protected]
RobinEdwards
School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, MarcP.Hijma
RepublicofIreland DeltaresResearchInstitute,Utrecht,TheNetherlands
Email:[email protected] Email:[email protected]
GillesErkens Joa˜oHorta
DeltaresResearchInstitute,Utrecht,TheNetherlands Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Cieˆncias e Tec-
Email:[email protected] nologia, Centro de Investigac¸a˜o Marinha e Ambiental
(CIMA),Faro,Portugal
UtrechtUniversity,Utrecht,TheNetherlands
BirgitHu¨nicke
R.HelenFarr
HelmholtzCentreGeesthacht,Geesthacht,Germany
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, Archaeol-
ogy,UniversityofSouthampton,Highfield,UK
PavelKuprin
Email:[email protected]
Department of Lithology and Marine Geology, M.V.
LomonosovMoscowStateUniversity,Moscow,Russia
NicholasC.Flemming
NationalOceanographyCentre,Southampton,UK
GaldericLastras
Email:[email protected]
GRC Geocie`ncies Marines, Dept. de Dina`mica de la
Terra i de l’Ocea`, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,
EhudGalili
Spain
Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa,
Haifa,Israel
GillesLericolais
IsraelAntiquitiesAuthority,Israel IFREMER,DAEI,Issy-les-Moulineaux,France
Email:[email protected] Email:[email protected]
CONTRIBUTORS ix
VasilisLykousis AnatolyPasynkov
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine DepartmentofPhysicalGeographyandGeomorphology,
Research,Anavyssos,Greece Geographicalfaculty,FederalCrimeanUniversitynamed
afterV.I.Vernadsky,Simferopol,Crimea
DonatellaMagri Email:[email protected]
PlantBiologyDept.,UniversityLaSapienza,Rome,Italy
DanielaPopescu
YossiMart
Basin Water Administration – Dobrogea Littoral, Con-
Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, University of
stanta,Romania
Haifa,Haifa,Israel
AlarRosentau
NikolayMaslakov
Department of Geology, University of Tartu, Tartu,
Department of Marine Geology and Mineral Resources
Estonia
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev,
Email:[email protected]
Ukraine
Email:[email protected]
GrigorisRousakis
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine
MartinMeschede
Research,Anavyssos,Greece
UniversityofGreifswald,Greifswald,Germany
DimitrisSakellariou
Graz˙ynaMiotk-Szpiganowicz
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine
PolishGeologicalInstitute–NationalResearchInstitute,
Research,Anavyssos,Greece
BranchofMarineGeology,Gdan´sk,Poland
Email:[email protected]
Email:[email protected]
AnnaSa`nchez-Vidal
GarryMomber
GRC Geocie`ncies Marines, Dept. de Dina`mica de la
Maritime Archaeology Trust, National Oceanography
Terra i de l’Ocea`, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona,
Centre,Southampton,UK
Spain
Email:[email protected]
IrenaMotnenko JulieSatchell
AvalonInstituteofAppliedScience,Winnipeg,Canada Maritime Archaeology Trust, National Oceanography
Email:[email protected] Centre,Southampton,UK
Email:[email protected]
DelmindaMoura
Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Cieˆncias e Tec- EvgenySchnyukov
nologia, Centro de Investigac¸a˜o Marinha e Ambiental Department of Marine Geology and Mineral Resources
(CIMA),Faro,Portugal of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev,
Email:[email protected] Ukraine
YaacovNir SergioSilenzi
Rehovot,Israel ISPRA,Rome,Italy
x CONTRIBUTORS
OlenaSmyntyna KieranWestley
Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, Odessa I.I. SchoolofGeographyandEnvironmentalSciences,Ulster
MechnikovNationalUniversity,Odessa,Ukraine University,Coleraine,NorthernIreland,UK
Email:[email protected] Email:[email protected]
CarolineWickham-Jones
ValentinSorokin
Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences,
Department of Lithology and Marine Geology, M.V.
UniversityofAberdeen,StMary’s,Scotland,UK
LomonosovMoscowStateUniversity,Moscow,Russia
Email:[email protected]
Email:[email protected]
ValentinaYanko-Hombach
TakvorSoukisian
Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational Center of
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine
Geoarchaeology, Marine and Environmental Geology,
Research,Anavyssos,Greece
Paleonthological Museum, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov
NationalUniversity,Odessa,Ukraine
SzymonU´scinowicz
Email:[email protected]
PolishGeologicalInstitute-NationalResearchInstitute,
BranchofMarineGeology,Gdan´sk,Poland DepartmentofPhysicalandMarineGeology,OdessaI.I.
Email:[email protected] MechnikovNationalUniversity,Odessa,Ukraine
AvalonInstituteofAppliedScience,Winnipeg,Canada
DinaVachtman
Email:[email protected]
StatoilASA,Harstad,Norway
WenyanZhang
ValentinaVoinea MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences,
National Museum of History and Archaeology of Con- UniversityofBremen,Bremen,Germany
stanta,Romania
EduardoZorita
Email:[email protected]
HelmholtzCentreGeesthacht,Geesthacht,Germany
HenkJ.T.Weerts
CulturalHeritageAgency,Amersfoort,TheNetherlands
Email:[email protected]