Dörfler, W.

van den Bogaard, Christel

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V12C-08: Volcanic Ash Preservation in Prokosko Jezero, BozniaHerzegowina – Extending our Knowledge of Eruptions in the AdriaticSea Area.Monday, 11 December 201712:05 - 12:20New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 208-209Archaeological and palaeoecological studies of settlement phases and changes in society are often based on naturalarchives: changes in the sediment composition and pollen content reflect climatic developments, plant successionsshow human interactions with the landscape. Volcanic ash layers preserved in the archives form valuable timemarkers in archaeological studies, the data base is being enlarged rapidly. Here we report new results from a corefrom the Prokosko Jezero, Boznia Herzegowina, close to the Neolithic tell settlement at Okoliste. The core extendsthe European eruption record back into Late Glacial times. A total of at least 18 eruptive events are recorded in thecore. No visible ash layers occur, 13 of the events are preserved as crypto-tephra layers, 5 as discrete layers. Theash particles have been provenance-fingerprinted by electron microprobe analysis and results are compared withpublished chemical measurements obtained from proximal and other distal sites within and around the Adriatic Sea.One of the aims of the present study was the timely correlation to other distal sites, comparing the overregionalenvironmental development.Plain Language SummaryAuthorsChristel van den Bogaard *GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research KielWalter DörflerUniversity of KielFind SimilarView Related EventsDay: Monday, 11 December 2017

Volcanic Ash Preservation in Prokosko Jezero, Boznia Herzegowina – Extending our Knowledge of Eruptions in the Adriatic Sea Area

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