Review article: Extreme marine events revealed by  lagoonal sedimentary records in Ghar El Melh during  the last 2500 years in the northeast of Tunisia

Kohila, Balkis Samah; Dezileau, Laurent; Boussetta, Soumaya; Melki, Tarek; Kallel, Nejib

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3645-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3645-2021

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Special issue:

Coastal hazards and hydro-meteorological extremes

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3645-2021

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Articles | Volume 21, issue 12

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02 Dec 2021

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Review article: Extreme marine events revealed by lagoonal sedimentary records in Ghar El Melh during the last 2500 years in the northeast of Tunisia

Balkis Samah Kohila, Laurent Dezileau, Soumaya Boussetta, Tarek Melki, and Nejib Kallel

Data sets

Grain size and geochemeical analysis in the Ghar El Melh Lagoon and the Medjerda River watershed B. S. Kohila, L. Dezileau, S. Boussetta, T. Melki, and N. Kallel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.574495

Short summary

The Tunisian coast has been historically affected by extreme marine submersion events resulting from storms or tsunamis. To establish adaptation and mitigation strategies, it is essential to study these events in terms of spatial and temporal variability. Using a geological archive (sediment cores and surface sediments) retrieved from this coastal area of Tunisia, we present a reconstruction of past marine submersion events over the last 2500 years.