Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1539-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1539-2016
Research article
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15 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 15 Jul 2016

Holocene hydrological changes in the Rhône River (NW Mediterranean) as recorded in the marine mud belt

Maria-Angela Bassetti, Serge Berné, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Bernard Dennielou, Yoann Alonso, Roselyne Buscail, Bassem Jalali, Bertil Hebert, and Christophe Menniti

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This work represents the first attempt to decipher the linkages between rapid climate changes and continental Holocene paleohydrology in the NW Mediterranean shallow marine setting. Between 11 and 4 ka cal BP, terrigenous input increased and reached a maximum at 7 ka cal BP, probably as a result of a humid phase. From ca. 4 ka cal BP to the present, enhanced variability in the land-derived material is possibly due to large-scale atmospheric circulation and rainfall patterns in western Europe.