Reply to comment by C. Morhange, G. Bony, C. Flaux & M. Shah-Hosseini on 'Sea level changes since the Middle Ages along the coast of the Adriatic Sea: The case of St. Nicholas Basilica, Bari, Southern Italy'

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We are thankful to C. Morhange, G. Bony, C. Flaux & M. Shah-Hosseini for their comment to our paper: "Sea level changes since the Middle Ages along the coast of the Adriatic Sea: The case of St. Nicholas Basilica, Bari, Southern Italy". We want to underline that the paper is not addressed to reconstruct a new sea level curve for this region for the last 1000 years, as they have stated in the comment. Indeed, the goal of our research was clearly expressed in the introduction and summarized as follows: ⅰ) to give a contribution to calibrate and adjust the predicted values of relative sea level rise for the last 1000 years; ⅱ) to test the reliability of data coming from the water table and compared them to the relative sea level stand; ⅲ) the possibility to use a new type of marker which differs from those commonly used (see Lambeck et al., 2010), i.e. the elevation of the pavements of the crypt of St. Nicholas Basilica with respect to the water level of the groundwater. In fact, this structure recorded the evidence of the water levels inside the crypt, being repeatedly flooded by the groundwater. The latter is hydraulically connected with the nearby sea.