%0 Journal Article
%A Bardají Azcárate, Teresa
%A Goy Goy, José Luis
%A Hillaire-Marcel, Claude
%A Dabrio González, Cristino José
%A Cabero del Río, Ana
%A Ghaleb, B.
%A Silva Barroso, Pablo Gabriel
%A Lario, Javier
%T Sea level and climate changes during OIS 5e in the Western Mediterranean
%D 2009
%@ 0169-555X
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41787
%X Palaeontological, geomorphological and sedimentological data supported by isotopic dating on OxygenIsotopic Stage (OIS) 5e deposits from the Spanish Mediterranean coast, are interpreted with the aim ofreconstructing climatic instability in the Northern Hemisphere. Data point to marked climatic instabilityduring the Last Interglacial (OIS 5e), with a change in meteorological conditions and, consequently, in thesedimentary environment. The oolitic facies generated during the first part of OIS 5e (ca. 135 kyr) shift intoreddish conglomeratic facies during the second part (ca. 117 kyr). Sea surface Temperature (SST) and salinityare interpreted mainly on the basis of warm Senegalese fauna, which show chronological and spatialdifferential distribution throughout the Western Mediterranean. Present hydrological and meteorologicalconditions are used also as modern analogues to reconstruct climatic variability throughout the LastInterglacial, and this variability is interpreted within the wider framework of the North Atlantic record. Allthe available data indicate an increase in storminess induced by an increase in the influence of northwesterlies,a slight drop of SST in the northern Western Mediterranean, and an important change inmeteorological conditions at the end of OIS 5e (117 kyr). These changes correlate well with the decrease insummer insolation and with the climatic instability recorded in North Atlantic high latitudes.
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