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Borehole studies indicate three stratigraphical units in the Holocene sediments on the Aegean coastal plains of Anatolia. These are early Holocene shallow marine- estuarine muds at the bottom, fine sandy-silty flood-plain sediments at the top, and a transition layer between them. The transition layer, a few meters thick and a few meters below the present sea-level, generally consists of the coarse sandy sediments of shallow coastal environments. C14 datings show that the change in sedimentation occurred during the third millennium BC In addition, relative sea-level fell a few meters during the same period, which accelerated deltaic progression. The transition layer has similar characteristics all along the coastal plains investigated, indicating that the change in sedimentation is a result of normal geomorphological development dependent on sea-level changes; local or regional tectonic movements and sediment compactions are not important here. Climatic-ecstatic sea-level changes may be considered the best explanation for the sedimentation change.
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Kayan, İ. (1997). Bronze Age Regression and Change of Sedimentation on the Aegean Coastal Plains of Anatolia (Turkey). In: Dalfes, H.N., Kukla, G., Weiss, H. (eds) Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse. NATO ASI Series, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60616-8_17
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