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Reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental variability based on an inter-comparison of four lacustrine archives on the Peloponnese (Greece) for the last 5000 years
Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University, Olshausenstraße 75, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Pavlos Avramidis
Department of Geology, University of Patras, Rio 26504 Patras, Greece
Annette Haug
Institute for Classical Archaeology, Kiel University,
Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 5, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Torben Kessler
Institute for Classical Archaeology, Kiel University,
Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 5, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Arndt Schimmelmann
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1405, USA
Ingmar Unkel
Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University, Olshausenstraße 75, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 69, 1–32, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-1-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-1-2020, 2020
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Short summary
We present two new palaeolake archives of Pheneos and Kaisari, Peloponnese, and compare them with records from Stymphalia and Asea by applying the same set of analyses to all sites. We focus on different spatial scales to estimate the validity range of the proxy signals. Geochemical ratios depict hydrological variation and environmental changes over the last 5000 years. They indicate drier phases, but timing and duration vary, which may be explained by site-specific ecosystem responses.
We present two new palaeolake archives of Pheneos and Kaisari, Peloponnese, and compare them...
