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Late Holocene pteropod distribution across the base of the south-eastern Mediterranean margin: the importance of the > 63 µm fraction
Valentina Beccari
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Chemin Du
Musée 6, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
Ahuva Almogi-Labin
Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, 32 Yesha'ayahu Leibowitz,
9692100, Israel
Daniela Basso
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Milano
– Bicocca, CoNISMa, ULR of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della
Scienza 4, 20126, Milan, Italy
Giuliana Panieri
Department of Geosciences, CAGE–Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate,
Environment and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø,
9037 Tromsø, Norway
Yizhaq Makovsky
Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences and Hatter
Department of Marine Technology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences
(CSMS), University of Haifa, Haifa, 3498838, Israel
Irka Hajdas
Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Silvia Spezzaferri
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Chemin Du
Musée 6, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Short summary
Planktonic gastropods (pteropods and heteropods) have been investigated in cores collected in the eastern Mediterranean along the Israeli coast in coral, pockmark, and channel areas. The sediment spans the last 5300 years. Our study reveals that neglecting the smaller fraction (> 63 µm) may result in a misinterpretation of the palaeoceanography. The presence of tropical and subtropical species reveals that the eastern Mediterranean acted as a refugium for these organisms.
Planktonic gastropods (pteropods and heteropods) have been investigated in cores collected in...
