Reply: Correlation Of A Widespread Pleistocene Tephra Marker From The Nisyros-yali Volcanic Complex, Greece

摘要

We thank Bichler et al. (2009-this volume) for their interest in our work, and for the opportunity to clarify our working hypotheses in terms of potential correlations of distal tephra deposits across the Eastern Mediterranean.rnIn our original paper (Margari et al., 2007), we presented the results of a detailed down-core study of a sequence of lake deposits from Lesvos Island (Mytilene), Northeast Aegean, Greece. This core contains an important high-resolution pollen record of changing climate, has been independently dated by radiocarbon techniques, and spans the period ca. 22-62 ka (Margari et al., submitted for publication). Within the core, we found six macroscopic tephra layers. Potentially, therefore, this core sequence offers the exciting possibility to begin to link terrestrial and marine records of late Quaternary volcanism and climate in the Eastern Mediterranean. Of course, in order to get to this point, we first need to identify and correlate the tephra units to known eruptions, or identifiable source volcanoes.