Modeling tides and tsunami propagation in the former Gulf of Tartessos, as a tool for Archaeological Science
After the last Holocene sea level rise (about 6900 BP), the Gulf of Tartessos extended over the south western area of the nowadays Guadalquivir Valley (Spain). With the development of some deposi tional littoral landforms and the progressive infill, the system evolved towards an inland lagoon. The f...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repository: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/135755 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/135755 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.030 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Former Gulf of Tartessos Tsunami propagation Tidal dynamics The city of Tartessos Recreation of palaeo-marine environments |
| Summary: | After the last Holocene sea level rise (about 6900 BP), the Gulf of Tartessos extended over the south western area of the nowadays Guadalquivir Valley (Spain). With the development of some deposi tional littoral landforms and the progressive infill, the system evolved towards an inland lagoon. The first political system in the area emerged and collapsed from the fourth to the second millennium BC. Around the first millennium BC the culture of Tartessos flourished in this area under the Phoenician influence, but it vanished by the sixth century BC. The quest of its lost capital, the city of Tartessos, has been one of the most exciting archaeological enterprises in the past century. The former coastline and the ba thymetry of the gulf can be reasonably reconstructed from geo-archaeological studies, and it can be used for the numerical modeling of tide and tsunami propagation in this water body. Models, with a spatial resolution of 30 s of arc, are based on the 2D non-linear hydrodynamic equations and have been pre viously validated under nowadays conditions. Computed tidal elevations and currents can provide some insight on the ancient trades for ship traffic and fisheries. The simulation of tsunami propagation, like the catastrophic one of 1755, allows estimating their potential hazardous effects on ancient coastal cities |
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