This year the 5th Regional Meeting hosts the Final conference of the LoLADRIA project “Submerged Pleistocene landscapes of the Adriatic Sea“, organized by Croatian Geological Survey.

 

This topic intends to uncover submerged landscapes in relation to sea level change.  Global sea level during the last 500,000 years oscillated between 120-130 m below present sea level and 5-10 m above present sea level. Since the sea was lower than at present for most of the last million years, large areas of land were exposed and were occupied by terrestrial vegetation, animals, and early humans. An assessment of Holocene sediment thickness will be examined along the Eastern Adriatic coast and the position of former coastlines at different time-frames including the Last Glacial Maximum. Submerged landscape features (landforms and deposits) and palaeoenvironmental indicators can be classified through an appraisal of existing records (e.g. bathymetry maps, geophysical data, sediment cores) and include:

• coastal (shorelines, lagoons, beaches, estuaries etc.),

• riverine (valleys, channels, deltas, terraces etc.),

• subaerial (aeolian, rough or flat terrains, karst, volcanic etc.),

• water points (groundwater discharge points, freshwater lakes etc.), and

• archaeological data.

The conference aims to bring together sedimentologists, geochemists, mineralogists, geomorphologists and paleontologists with interests in interdisciplinary research of high resolution paleoenvironmental reconstructions of submerged karstic depressions during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene sea level rise. The answer lies beneath the sea in the mud and sediments of the continental shelf.

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To participate at the Conference, please register here.