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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The environmental impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera): statistical analysis of palaeoecological data from Golbisar southwest Turkey |
Author: | Eastwood, W. Tibby, J. Roberts, N. Birks, H. Lamb, H. |
Citation: | The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change, 2002; 12(4):431-444 |
Publisher: | Arnold |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
ISSN: | 0959-6836 1477-0911 |
Statement of Responsibility: | W. J. Eastwood, J. Tibby, N. Roberts, H. J.B. Birks and H. F. Lamb |
Abstract: | A tephra layer originating from the mid-second millennium bc (~3300 14C yr BP) ‘Minoan’ eruption of Santorini (or Thera) in the Aegean has been found in lake sediments at Go¨lhisar in southwest Turkey. Microstratigraphic analyses of tephra shard concentration (TSC), pollen, diatoms, sponge spicules and nonsiliceous microfossils in sediments from Go¨lhisar permit the impact of this major volcanic eruption on terrestrial and aquatic biota to be investigated quantitatively. Partial redundancy analysis and associated Monte Carlo permutation tests suggest that TSC alone cannot be shown to have had a demonstrable independent and statistically significant effect on terrestrial pollen, non-siliceous microfossil or diatom assemblages. The lack of any clear, discernible change in the terrestrial pollen composition following tephra deposition suggests that there was minimal impact on regional vegetation over decadal-to-century timescales. However, evidence that the deposition of Santorini tephra may have had an impact on the lake system comes from the combined effect of lithology and TSC (which significantly covary) that explains a significant amount of variance in the aquatic data sets. In particular, diatoms and non-siliceous algae show increases in concentration following tephra deposition, exhibiting what appear to be ±decadal response times to perturbation. These imply enhanced lake productivity due to accelerated input of silica and other nutrients following tephra dissolution. |
Keywords: | Santorini Thera Minoan volcanic impact pollen, diatoms redundancy analysis variance partitioning Monte Carlo permutation tests late Holocene |
Rights: | © Arnold 2002 |
DOI: | 10.1191/0959683602hl557rp |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0959683602hl557rp |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Environment Institute publications Geography, Environment and Population publications |
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