First fluvial archive of the 8.2 and 7.6-7.3 ka events in North Africa (Charef River, High Plateaus, NE Morocco).

The Early-Mid Holocene transition is a period of profound changes in climatic mechanisms and hydrological features in Europe and North Africa. The melting of the Laurentide ice sheet led to an oceanic and atmospheric reorganisation in the North Atlantic, while the Mediterranean underwent a major hydrological shift. The impacts on Mediterranean rivers remain unclear, as there are few records documenting responses to the 8.

Discovery of a tsunami deposit from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption at Malia (Crete): impact, chronology, extension.

A geomorphological survey immediately west of the Minoan town of Malia (Crete) shows that a tsunami resulting from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption reached the outskirts of the Palatial center. Sediment cores testify a unique erosional event during the Late Minoan period, followed locally by a high energy sand unit comprising marine fauna. This confirms that a tsunami impacted northern Crete and caused an inundation up to 400 m inland at Malia.

Dataset of natural metal background levels inferred from pre-industrial palaeochannel sediment cores along the Rhône River (France).

Natural metal background levels in sediments are critical to assess spatial and temporal trends of contamination in hydrosystems and to manage polluted sediments. This is even more sensitive that multi-factors such as geogenic basement, depositional context, and past or long-term pollution can affect the level of metals in sediments. This article provides natural metal background levels and ancillary data (location, chronology, grain-size, total organic carbon - TOC) in pre-industrial sediments along the Rhône River (France).

Metal pollution trajectories and mixture risk assessed by combining dated cores and subsurface sediments along a major European river (Rhône River, France).

In European rivers, research and monitoring programmes have targeted metal pollution from bed and floodplain sediments since the mid-20 century by using various sampling and analysis protocols. We propose to characterise metal contamination trajectories since the 1960s based on the joint use of a large amount of data from dated cores and subsurface sediments along the Rhône River (ca. 512 km, Switzerland-France).