TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ben Dor, Yoav
A1  - Neugebauer, Ina
A1  - Enzel, Yehouda
A1  - Schwab, Markus Julius
A1  - Tjallingii, Rik
A1  - Erel, Yigal
A1  - Brauer, Achim
T1  - Varves of the Dead Sea sedimentary record
JF  - Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
N2  - The sedimentary record of the Dead Sea provides an exceptional high-resolution archive of past climate changes in the drought-sensitive eastern Mediterranean-Levant, a key region for the development of humankind at the boundary of global climate belts. Moreover, it is the only deep hypersaline lake known to have deposited long sequences of finely laminated, annually deposited sediments (i.e. varves) of varied compositions, including aragonite, gypsum, halite and clastic sediments. Vast efforts have been made over the years to decipher the environmental information stored in these evaporitic-clastic sequences spanning from the Pleistocene Lake Amora to the Holocene Dead Sea. A general characterisation of sediment facies has been derived from exposed sediment sections, as well as from shallow- and deep-water sediment cores. During high lake stands and episodes of positive water budget, mostly during glacial times, alternating aragonite and detritus laminae (‘aad’ facies) were accumulated, whereas during low lake stands and droughts, prevailing during interglacials, laminated detritus (‘ld’ facies) and laminated halite (‘lh’ facies) dominate the sequence. In this paper, we (i) review the three types of laminated sediments of the Dead Sea sedimentary record (‘aad’, ‘ld’ and ‘lh’ facies), (ii) discuss their modes of formation, deposition and accumulation, and their interpretation as varves, and (iii) illustrate how Dead Sea varves are utilized for palaeoclimate reconstructions and for establishing floating chronologies.
KW  - ICDP Dead Sea deep drilling
KW  - Hypersaline lake
KW  - Lacustrine sediments
KW  - Evaporitic varves
KW  - Palaeoclimate reconstruction
KW  - Varve chronologies
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.04.011
SN  - 0277-3791
VL  - 215
SP  - 173
EP  - 184
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -