Oceanography

The oceanography in Santorini

The Deep-Sea Record of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Last 150,000 Years
The deep-sea record of the last 150,000 years in the Eastern Mediterranean includes the stratigraphic expression of six world-wide recognizable isotopic stages and of six faunal stages, which encompass the Holocene or Post-glacial, the last Glacial period, a major inter-glacial during which the climate was warmer than at present, and the terminal part of another Glacial period.
The Upper Thera (Minoan) Ash in Deep-Sea Sediments: Distribution and Comparison with Other Ash Layers
Within the deep-sea stratigraphic sequence of the Eastern Mediterranean and southern Aegean Sea basins, the Upper Thera, or Minoan, ash forms a key marker bed of importance to geologists attempting to understand the complexities of sedimentation in these basins, complexities resulting from the combination of sea-floor morphological characteristics (Figure 1), late Quaternary climatic changes (McCoy, this volume), and tectonic activity.
Aegean Sea Level Changes in the Bronze Age
The author discusses the causes of local relative sea-level movements, including different views on the timing and extent of eustatic changes, and the light thrown on such movements by analyses of coastal sedimentary deposits in parts of the Peloponnese.