Late Holocene sea-level changes in Yoron Island, the Ryukyus, Japan

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Did the Early Byzantine Tectonic Paroxysm (EBTP) also affect the Adriatic area?

The paper starts recalling the various stages that lead to the definition of the Early Byzantine Tectonic Paroxysm (EBTP), which was determined mainly from fossil uplifted shorelines of the Eastern Mediterranean between the middle of the 4th century and the middle of the 6th century CE. A comparison of catalogues of earthquakes may show that possibly an important event occurred in 361 CE in the northern Adriatic, i.e. near the beginning of a sequence of clustered earth movements. This event is proposed as the most likely for the coseismic subsidence of a known slightly submerged tidal notch that developed along over 200 km of the Croatian shoreline. © 2017 Elsevier B.V

Tidal notches: A sea-level indicator of uncertain archival trustworthiness

In this paper, after a short summary on the processes and rates of bioerosion that contribute to the deepening of a tidal-notch profile, some Mediterranean case-studies are presented, where a tidal notch is prevented either from forming or from being preserved. Furthermore, as shown also in a complementary paper, the recent global sea-level rise is preventing the development of new tidal notches in the present mid-littoral zone. This very useful sea-level indicator, of past temporary standstills of the relative sea level in carbonate rock areas, is of great value in assisting interpretations of relative sea-level change in locations where it is preserved. The possibilities of absence of formation or of preservation, however, imply that it should be interpreted carefully before reconstructing local relative sea-level histories. In particular, the lack of fossil tidal notches cannot be relied upon to interpret the absence of past periods of relative sea-level stabilization. © 2012 Elsevier B.V

Estimation of the intertidal bioerosion rate from a well-dated fossil tidal notch in Greece

In this paper a re-analysis of previous research concerning an uplifted tidal notch developed near the modern harbor of Poros (eastern Cephalonia Island, Ionian Sea, Greece) is undertaken. According to radiocarbon dating, this notch was active between the 4th–6th century AD and 1953 AD, i.e. for at least 1450 years. Recent measurements have shown that the inward depth of the notch profile at well preserved sites is 93 cm. This permits an estimate of the average rate of intertidal bioerosion to 0.64 mm/a for this time period. © 2016 Elsevier B.V