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dc.contributor.authorEastwood, W. J.eng
dc.contributor.authorTibby, J.eng
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, N.eng
dc.contributor.authorBirks, Harry John Betteleyeng
dc.contributor.authorLamb, H.F.eng
dc.date.accessioned2007-12-12T14:42:02Z
dc.date.available2007-12-12T14:42:02Z
dc.date.issued2002eng
dc.PublishedThe Holocene 2002 12(4): 431-444en
dc.identifier.issn0959-6836en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/2497
dc.description.abstractA 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 G6lhisar in southwest Turkey. Microstratigraphic analyses of tephra shard concentration (TSC), pollen, diatoms, sponge spicules and nonsiliceous microfossils in sediments from Gtlhisar 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.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.subjectSantorinieng
dc.subjectTheraeng
dc.subjectMinoaneng
dc.subjectVolcanic impacteng
dc.subjectPolleneng
dc.subjectDiatomseng
dc.subjectRedundancy analysiseng
dc.subjectVariance partitioningeng
dc.subjectMonte Carlo permutation testseng
dc.subjectLate Holoceneeng
dc.titleThe environmental impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera): statistical analysis of palaeoecological data from Golbisar, southwest Turkeyen_US
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1191/0959683602hl557rp
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480nob


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