A 500.000 years-old Promise

The climate archives drilled in the Mediterranean Sea

By S. Berné and S. Lesbats

 

PROMESS1 - PROfiles across MEditerranean Sedimentary Systems. Part 1

UE 5th Framework Programme

For more informations  :
http://promess1.pangaea.de/

The primary objective of PROMESS 1 was to enable a large and multi-disciplinary pan-European scientific community to have access to a drilling vessel from the industry, in order to sample long, undisturbed and continuous sediment core sections (up to 300 m long) and realise in situ measurements of shelf and upper slope sedimentary sequences deposited during the last 500 kyr in the Gulf of Lions and the Adriatic Sea. The movie «Une promesse de 500.000 ans », realized at Ifremer, focuses on the Gulf of Lions study area.

Streaming video (.flv)

Publications :

Bassetti, M.A., Jouet, G., Dufois, F., Berné, S., Rabineau, M., Taviani, M., 2006. Sand bodies at the shelf edge in the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean): Deglacial history and modern processes. Mar. Geol., 234, 93–109, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2006.09.010.

Beaudouin, C., Suc, J.-P., Acherki, N., Courtois, L., Rabineau, M., Aloïsi, J.-C., Sierro, F.J., Oberlin, C., 2005. Palynology of the northwestern Mediterranean shelf (Gulf of Lions): First vegetational record for the last climatic cycle. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 845-863.

Beaudouin, C., Jouet, G., Suc, J.-P., Berné, S., Escarguel, G., 2007. Vegetation dynamics in southern France during the last 30 ky BP in the light of marine palynology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 1037-1054.

Berné, S., Gorini, C., 2005 (Eds.). The Gulf of Lions: An overview of recent studies within the French ‘Margins’ programme. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22, 691-693.

Berné, S., Syvitski, J.S.P., Trincardi, F. (Guest Eds.) Interactions Between High-Frequency Climate Changes and Deltaic Margin Architecture. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.

Droz, L., dos Reis, A.T., Rabineau, M., Berné, S., Bellaiche, G., 2006. Quaternary turbidite systems on the northern margins of the Balearic Basin (Western Mediterranean): a synthesis. Geo-Mar Lett, 26, 347–359. DOI 10.1007/s00367-006-0044-0.

Jouet, G., Bern, S., Rabineau, M., Bassetti, M.A., Bernier, P., Dennielou, B., Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A., Taviani, M., 2006. Shoreface migrations at the shelf edge and sea-level changes around the Last Glacial Maximum (Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean). Marine Geology 234 (2006) 21-42.

Piva, A., Asioli, A., Trincardi, F., Schneider R.R., Vigliotti, L., 2008. Late-Holocene climate variability in the Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean). The Holocene, 18, 153-167. DOI: 10.1177/0959683607085606

Piva, A., A. Asioli, R.R. Schneider, F. Trincardi, N. Andersen, E. Colmenero-Hidalgo, B. Dennielou, J.-A. Flores, L. Vigliotti, 2008. Climatic cycles as expressed in sediments of the PROMESS1 borehole PRAD1-2, central Adriatic, for the last 370 ka: 1. Integrated stratigraphy. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9/1, 21 pp. doi:10.1029/2007GC001713.

Piva, A., A. Asioli, N. Andersen, J. O. Grimalt, R. R. Schneider, F. Trincardi, 2008. Climatic cycles as expressed in sediments of the PROMESS1 borehole PRAD1-2, central Adriatic, for the last 370 ka: 2. Paleoenvironmental evolution. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9/1, 21 pp. doi:10.1029/2007GC001785.

Rabineau, M., Berné, S., Olivet, J.-L., Aslanian, D., Guillocheau, F., Joseph, P., 2006. Paleo sea levels reconsidered from direct observation of paleoshoreline position during Glacial Maxima (for the last 500,000 yr). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 252, 119-137.

Ridente, D., Trincardi, F., Piva, A., Asioli, A., Cattaneo, A., 2008. Sedimentary response to climate and sea level change during the past ?400 kyr from borehole PRAD1-2 (Adriatic Margin). Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems. ACCEPTED FEB 2008.

Sultan, N., Cattaneo, A., Urgeles, R., Lee, H.J., Locat, J., Trincardi, F., Berné, S., Canals, M., Lafuerza, S., 2008. A geomechanical approach for the genesis of sediment undulations on the Adriatic shelf. Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, Geophysics 9/4, 25pp., doi:10.1029/2007GC001822.

Vigliotti, L., Verosub., K.L., Cattaneo, A., Trincardi, F., Asioli, A., Piva, A., 2008. Palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic analysis of Holocene deposits from the Adriatic Sea: detecting and dating short-term fluctuations in sediment supply. The Holocene 18, 141-152. DOI: 10.1177/0959683607085

 
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