(Kecigol (Goat Lake) on the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey)
Introduction : The aims of ISOMED
Where and Who : Research Areas and Researchers.
List of References Contact Details
ISOMED is coordinated by
Prof. Neil Roberts and
Dr. Matt Jones.
Introduction : The aims of ISOMED
ISOMED is an international working group examining Late Quaternary stable isotope records from the circum-Mediterranean region. Its initial focus is on isotopic records from Mediterranean lakes.
ISOMED aims to synthesize stable isotopic records from lakes throughout the region to gain an understanding of Mediterranean wide climatic and environmental change during the last 130,000 years.
ISOMED forms an integral part of the Mediterranean sector of the IGBP PAGES PEPIII transect (http://www.paleontology.uni-bonn.de/pep3/ ).
Key issues
A paper outlining some of these issues (Roberts and Jones, 2002) was published in PAGES News (Vol. 10, No. 2) and can be accessed here.
Where and Who : Research Areas and Researchers.
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to view lake records from your country of interest.
Greece
| Site Name | Brief Description |
Time covered |
Names of isotope researchers | Isotope Publications | Other selected publications |
| Ioannina (Lake Pamvotis) | A freshwater lake situated on the western flank of the Pindus Mountain Range (39° 45’N, 20° 51’E, 472 m asl). Subsidence of the basin floor has resulted in a great thickness of lacustrine sediments. | Total length Plio-Pleistocene to recent. Isotopic analysis of 1. last interglacial, 2. last ca.30kyr | Mick Frogley, Tim Heaton. | Frogley, 1997; Frogley et al., 1999; Leontiadis and Nikolaou, 1999; Tzedakis et al., 2003; Frogley et al., 2001. | Tzedakis, 1994; Anagnostidis and Economou-Amilli, 1980; Harrison and Digerfeldt, 1993; Tzedakis et al., 2004; Tzedakis et al., 2002. |
| Kopais | A freshwater lake (now drained) 93m a.s.l. located in central Greece (38° 26’ N, 23°03’ E). The palaeolake occupied 200kms of a tectonic basin within a karstic catchment of about 2000kms. | Marine OIS 5e to early Holocene. | Sue Griffiths, Tim Heaton, Melanie Leng | Jux and Zygojannis, 1986; Griffiths et al., 2002a. | Tzedakis, 1999; Griffiths et al., 2002b. |
| Site Name | Brief Description |
Time covered |
Names of isotope researchers | Isotope Publications | Other selected publications |
| Mirabad | Located in the Saidmarreh valley, Zagros mountains, south east of Zeribar. Dammed by a landslide across the valley. |
9-0 ka |
Emi Ito, Herb Wright, Lora Stevens | (unpublished results). | Van Zeist and Bottema, 1977; Griffiths et al., 2001. |
| Zeribar | An intramontane valley situated in the Zagros Mountains, western Iran. A closed, but freshwater lake system which drains only at high water. |
40-0 ka |
Emi Ito, Herb Wright, Lora Stevens | Stevens et al., 2001. | Van Zeist and Bottema, 1977; Megard, 1967; Wasylikowa, 1967; Snyder et al., 2001. |
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Site Name |
Brief Description |
Time covered |
Names of isotope researchers |
Isotope Publications |
Other selected publications |
| Huleh | Freshwater lake, part of the Upper Jordan River system, until it was completely drained in 1958. | Full record 40 – 0 ka BP. Isotope record 23 - 0 ka BP | Stiller and Hutchinson 1980 | Baruch and Bottema, 1999; Hutchinson and Cowgill, 1973. | |
| Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) | Freshwater lake, part of the Jordan River system (32° 42’ N, 35° 35’ E). | 6 – 0 ka BP | Stiller and Kaufman, 1985. | ||
| Dead Sea – Lisan | Saline lake at the southern end of the Jordan River System. | 11 – 0 ka BP, 70 - 20 ka BP | Mordechai Stein et al. | Magaritz et al., 1991, Stein et al., 2000, Machlus. | Katz et al., 1977. |
| Site Name | Brief Description |
Time covered |
Names of isotope researchers |
Isotope Publications | Other selected publications |
| Castiglione | An ancient crater lake, East of Rome. |
115 ka – 0 ka BP. |
Francescopaolo Bonadonna, Gabriello Leone. | Bonadonna and Leone, 1995. Zanchetta et al., 1999. | Follieri et al., 1988. |
| Vallo di Diano | A palaeolake formed in the Vallo di Diano tectonic basin of the Southern Apennines, Italy. |
650 ka – 450 ka BP. |
E. Russo Ermolli, R. Cheddadi, D.B. Karner. | Russo Ermolli and Cheddadi, 1997; Karner et al., 1999. | Russo Ermolli, 1994. |
| Albano | Hydrologically closed crater lake | 25 ka - 15ka BP. | C. Chondrogianni, D. Ariztegui et al. | Chondrogianni et al., 1996. | Ariztegui et al., 1996 |
| Ripa Sottila | ? | ? | ? | Ricci Lucchi et al., 2000 | |
| Lago Piccolo di Avigliana | A freshwater lake located in a
morainic landscape at 350 m asl (45° 03’N, 07° 23’E) in northwestern Italy (Piemonte).
|
15 - 9 ka BP | Ueli Eicher, Markus Leuenberger | (unpublished results) |
Eicher, 1987; Schneider, 1985 |
| Site Name | Brief Description | Time covered | Names of isotope researchers | Isotope Publications | Other selected publications |
| Tigalmamine | A group of adjacent solution lakes, the largest being 16m in depth, located at the northern edge of the Middle Atlas Mountains (32° 54’N, 5° 21’W; 1626m elevation). | ~18ka BP, 12 – 0 ka BP. | Henry Lamb, Abdelfattah Benkaddour, Ulrich Eicher | Lamb et al., 1989; Benkaddour, 1992 | Cheddadi et al., 1998; Lamb et al., 1995; Lamb & van der Kaars, 1995; El Hamouti et al., 1991. |
| Sidi Ali | One of the largest lakes in the middle Atlas (33° 03’N, 5° 00’W; 2080 m elevation), the main basin has a maximum depth of 65m. A surficially closed lake system although relatively dilute. | 7 – 0 ka BP. | Henry Lamb, Melanie Leng, Abdelfattah Benkaddour, Neil Roberts, | Lamb et al., 1999. | |
| Isli | A mesosaline, cold monomictic lake (depth 95m) in the High Atlas (32° 13’N, 5° 32’W, 2270m a.s.l.). | 35ka – 28 ka BP, 20ka – 8ka BP, 4ka – 0ka BP. | Essaid Zeroual. | Zeroual, E, 1995; Valero – Garces et al., 1998. | Lamb et al., 1994. |
| Site Name |
Brief Description |
Time covered |
Names of isotope researchers |
Isotope Publications | Other selected publications |
| Banyoles | A karstic monomictic lake in NE Spain (42° 7’N, 2° 45’ E) fed by subterranean waters. |
30.0 – 6.5 ka BP. |
Ramon Juliŕ Blas Valero-Garcés, Essaid Zeroual, Kerry Kelts | Valero-Garcés et al, 1998 | Wansard and Juliŕ, 2000; Wansard 1996. |
| Laguna de los Tollos. | An ephemeral saline lake, desiccated by recent water abstraction, located in Jerez, Cadiz, southwest Spain (36'51'N, 6' 01'W, 70m a.s.l.). |
12.5 – 10 ka BP. |
Tony Stevenson, Melanie Leng, Jane Reed. | (unpublished data) | Reed, 1996. |
| Laguna de Medina | A semi-permanent (max. depth ca. 2m) saline lake located near Cadiz in southwest Spain (36° 37’N, 6° 02’W; 30m a.s.l.). |
9 – 0 ka BP. |
Jane Reed, Tony Stevenson, Melanie Leng. | (unpublished data) | Reed et al., in press; Reed, 1995. |
| Salada Mediana | An ephemeral saline lake (max. depth about 50 cm) in the central Ebro Basin (41° 30' N, 0° 44' W, 350 m a.s.l.) | Blas Valero-Garcés, Kerry Kelts, Antonio Delgado-Huertas | Valero-Garcés et al, 2000. Valero-Garcés et al, in press | ||
| Salines | An ephemeral saline lake in Eastern Spain (Alicante province) |
Intervals of Lateglacial and Holocene age. |
Blas Valero-Garcés, Kerry Kelts | Unpublished data | Roca & Julia, 1997. Giralt et al., 1999 |
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Site Name |
Brief Description |
Time covered |
Names of isotope researchers |
Isotope Publications |
Other selected Publications |
| Akgöl (Konya) | The principal residual lake in the east Konya Basin (37° 30’N, 33° 43’E). Fed by the River Zanopa with major outflow through a large sink-hole at the southern margin. |
16 - 4 ka BP, 27- 24 ka BP, ~200 ka BP. . |
Melanie Leng, Neil Roberts, and others. | Leng et al 1999 | Roberts et al 1999 |
| Eski Acigöl | A former crater lake from the Central Anatolian volcanic province (38° 33’N, 34° 32’E; 1270m a.s.l.). The lake was drained in 1972. |
ca. 18 - 0 ka |
Neil Roberts, Melanie Leng | Roberts et al (2001). | |
| Gölhisar | Small, shallow (2.5m deep) intramontane lake in the Taurus Mountains, SW Turkey (37° 8’N, 29° 36’E; 930m elevation). Modern lake waters are alkaline and oligosaline. |
10.5 – 0 ka BP. |
Warren Eastwood, Melanie Leng, Matt Jones. | Jones 2000; Jones et al., 2002. | Eastwood et al., 1999 |
| Nar | A 25m deep crater lake in the Cappadocian region of central Turkey. | 0 - 2 ka | Matt Jones, Neil Roberts, Melanie Leng | Jones 2004 | |
| Pinarbasi | A freshwater karstic spring-fed lake on the southern edge of the Konya Basin (37° 28’N, 33° 07’W), Central Anatolian Plateau, southwest Turkey. Now almost desiccated, as is the adjacent marsh. |
56 – 26 ka BP. |
Melanie Leng, Jane Reed, Neil Roberts. | Leng et al 1999, Reed et al 1999, Leng et al., in press. | Roberts et al 1999. |
| Süleymanhaci | A closed saline lake with a limited catchment on the southern edge of the Konya Basin (37° 27’N, 33° 04’W). Groundwater abstraction in recent years has caused a dramatic rise in salinity. |
0 –9 ka BP, 40 – 26 ka BP. |
Melanie Leng, Jane Reed, Neil Roberts. | Leng et al 1999, Reed et al 1999. | Roberts et al 1999. |
| Van | The fourth largest terminal lake and the largest soda lake on Earth (depth 460m). Located in the highlands of Eastern Turkey (38° 32’N, 42° 48’E). |
15 – 0 ka |
Gerry Lemcke, Michael Sturm | Lemcke and Sturm, 1997; Wick et al., 2003. | Landmann et al., 1996. |
Footprint - Homepage of Leverhulme funded project on Eastern Mediterranean climatic and environmental change through the last glacila-interglacial transition
PAGES- homepage of the Past Global Changes, a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere program. Includes details on ISOMAP - Isotope mapping project.
PEP III - homepage of the PAGES PEP III transect through Europe and Africa.
IGBP- homepage of the International Geosphere-Biosphere program.
NIGL - the NERC Isotopic Geosciences Laboratory at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth.
ELDP - Homepage of the European Lake Drilling Program.
Carbonate Processes and Palaeoenvironments - Homepage of the Bristol Speleothem research Group.
The LRC Home Page - Homepage of the Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota.
Limnogeology and
Global Change - Homepage of the limnology group at the Instituto Pirenaico de
Ecología, Spain.
Thanks
to Andy Elmes.
Last updated: 12/07/2004
