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dc.contributor.author | Haghani, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leroy, SAG | - |
dc.contributor.author | Khdir, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kabiri, K | - |
dc.contributor.author | Beni, AN | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lahijani, HAK | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-23T14:30:00Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-23T14:30:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Holocene, 26(1): pp. 3-16, (2016) | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1477-0911 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hol.sagepub.com/ | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11048 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Caspian Sea level has undergone significant changes through time with major impacts not only on the surrounding coasts, but also offshore. This study reports a brackish water invasion on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea constructed from a multi-proxy analysis of sediment retrieved from the Langarud wetland. The ground surface level of wetland is >6 m higher than the current Caspian Sea level (at -27.41 m in 2014) and located >11 km far from the coast. A sequence covering the last millennium was dated by three radiocarbon dates. The results from this new study suggest that Caspian Sea level rose up to at least -21.44 m (i.e. >6 m above the present water level) during the early Little Ice Age. Although previous studies in the southern coast of the Caspian Sea have detected a high-stand during the Little Ice Age period, this study presents the first evidence that this high-stand reached so far inland and at such a high altitude. Moreover, it confirms one of the very few earlier estimates of a high-stand at -21 m for the second half of the 14th century. The effects of this large-scale brackish water invasion on soil properties would have caused severe disruption to regional agriculture, thereby destabilizing local dynasties and facilitating a rapid Turko-Mongol expansion of Tamerlane’s armies from the east. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_US |
dc.relation.isreplacedby | 2438/11853 | - |
dc.relation.isreplacedby | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11853 | - |
dc.subject | Little Ice Age | en_US |
dc.subject | Caspian Sea | en_US |
dc.subject | Palaeo-environment | en_US |
dc.subject | Sea level change | en_US |
dc.subject | Sedimentology | en_US |
dc.subject | Palynology | en_US |
dc.title | An early Little Ice Age brackish water invasion along the south coast of the Caspian Sea (sediment of Langarud wetland) and its wider impacts on environment and people | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1177/0959683615596835 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change | - |
pubs.publication-status | Accepted | - |
pubs.publication-status | Accepted | - |
Appears in Collections: | Institute for the Environment |
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