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Paleoceanography Forensic Palynology Geoarchaeology Publications Research Contact Paleo-Forge	Geoarchaeology involves the application of new leading-edge quantitative methods in Earth Sciences to the art of Archaeology. Multidisciplinary teams of geologists and archaeologists are now working together to unravel our past in order to plan for our future. We have two areas of specialisation: Catastrophic flooding in the Black Sea that may explain the story of Noah's Flood; and catastrophic changes in sea ice and its impact on the lives of the ancient Eskimos. Palynological study of a Mi’kmaw shell midden, Northeast Nova Scotia, Canada (2.6MB PDF) Peta J. Mudie, Michelle A. Lelièvre Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 40, Issue 4, April 2013, Pages 2161–2175 Olbia, Ukraine on the Black Sea Was the Black Sea Catastrophically Flooded during the Holocene? Geological evidence and archaeological impacts (760K PDF) Valentina Yanko-Hombach, Peta Mudie and Allan S. Gilbert Submerged Prehistory 2011
Regional map of the Caspian–Black Sea–Mediterranean corridor. Light microscope photographs of various ecologically diagnostic dinocysts in the Black Sea corridor. Light microscope photographs of acritarchs, colonial algae, and zygnemataceans, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) photographs of colonial alga.	Nonpollen palynomorphs: Indicators of salinity and environmental change in the Caspian–Black Sea–Mediterranean corridor (1.5MB PDF) P.J. Mudie, S.A.G. Leroy, F. Marret, N. Gerasimenko, S.E.A. Kholeif, T. Sapelko, M. Filipova-Marinova GSA Special Paper Geology and Geoarchaeology of the Black Sea Region: Beyond the Flood Hypothesis 2011 Non-pollen palynomorphs in the Black Sea corridor (1.2MB PDF) Peta J. Mudie, Fabienne Marret, André Rochon and Ali E. Aksu VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY Volume 19, Numbers 5-6, 531-544, 2010 Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for palaeovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the Last Glacial Maximum (2.6MB PDF) Carlos E. Cordova, Sandy P. Harrison, Peta J. Mudie, Simone Riehl, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Natalie Ortiz Quaternary International 197, 12–26, 2009 Palynological Records of Climate and Oceanic Conditions in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of the Nile Cone, Southeastern Mediterranean, Egypt (3.1MB PDF) Suzan E.A. Kholeif, Peta J. Mudie Palynology 33, 1-24, 2009, A Holocene dinocyst record of a two-step transformation of the Neoeuxinian brackish water lake into the Black Sea (2.2 MB PDF) Fabienne Marret, Peta Mudie, Ali Aksu, Richard N. Hiscott Quaternary International Volume 197, Issues 1-2, 15 March 2009, Pages 72-86 Palynological evidence for climatic change, anthropogenic activity and outflow of Black Sea water during the late Pleistocene and Holocene: Centennial- to decadal-scale records from the Black and Marmara Seas (2.3MB PDF) P.J. Mudie, F. Marret, A.E. Aksu, R.N. Hiscott and H. Gillespie Quaternary International 167-168, 73-90, June 2007 A gradual drowning of the southwestern Black Sea shelf: Evidence for a progressive rather than abrupt Holocene reconnection with the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Marmara Sea Gateway (2.3MB PDF) Richard N. Hiscott, Ali E. Aksu, Peta J. Mudie, Fabienne Marret, Teofilo Abrajano, Michael A. Kaminskie, James Evans, Ayse I. Cakiroglu, Dogan Yasar Quaternary International 167-168, 19-34, June 2007 Corrigendum to “A gradual drowning of the southwestern Black Sea shelf: Evidence for a progressive rather than abrupt Holocene reconnection with the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Marmara Sea Gateway” (76K PDF) Richard N. Hiscott, Ali E. Aksu , Peta J. Mudie, Fabienne Marretc, Teofilo Abrajano, Michael A. Kaminski , James Evans, Ayse I. Çakiroglu , Dogan Yasar Quaternary International 226 (2010) 160 The Marmara Sea gateway since ~16 ky BP: non-catastrophic causes of paleoceanographic events in the Black Sea at 8.4 and 7.15 Ky BP (1.1 MB PDF) Richard N. Hiscott, Ali E. Aksu, Peta J. Mudie, Michael A. Kaminski, Teofilo Abrajano, Dogan Yasar, and André Rochon The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement Valentina Yanko-Hombach, Allan S. Gilbert, Nicolae Panin and Pavel M. Dolukhanov, eds. NATO Science Series IV, Springer, Dordrecht, 89-117, 2007 Marine palynology: potentials for onshore–offshore correlation of Pleistocene–Holocene records (2.8 MB PDF) Peta J.Mudie and Francine M.G.McCarthy Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Volume 61(2) – October 2006 Decadal-scale sea ice changes in the Canadian Arctic and the impact on humans during the past 4,000 years (360K PDF) Peta J. Mudie, Andre Rochon and Elisabeth Levac Environmental Archaeology 10:11-126, 2005 Arctic catastrophes: sea ice changes and impacts in the Eastern Arctic during the past 4,000 years Poster presented at the Conference on Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic, June 15-17, 2005, Yukon College, Whitehorse, Yukon (1200 x 900 pixels 464K JPG) (2400 x 1800 pixels 1 MB JPG) or (884K PPT) Mudie, P.J., Levac, E. , and Rochon, A. Late glacial, Holocene and modern dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in the Aegean-Marmara-Black Sea corridor: statistical analysis and re-interpretation of the early Holocene Noah's Flood hypothesis P. J. Mudie; A. Rochon; A. E. Aksu; H. Gillespie Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 128(1): 143-167, 2004
Delegates from 23 countries to the first IGCP 521 plenary at the ancient city of Troy archeological site near Çanakkale, Turkey, October 2005.
	Deltas south of the Bosphorus Strait record persistent Black Sea outflow to the Marmara Sea since 10 ka R. N. Hiscott; A. E. Aksu; D. Yaar; M. A. Kaminski; P. J. Mudie, V. E. Kostylev; J. C. MacDonald; F. I. Ilerb; A. R. Lord Marine Geology 190(1): 95-118, 2002 Last glacial–Holocene paleoceanography of the Black Sea and Marmara Sea: stable isotopic, foraminiferal and coccolith evidence A. E. Aksu; R. N. Hiscott; M. A. Kaminski; P. J. Mudie; H. Gillespie; T. Abrajano; D. Yasar Marine Geology 190(1): 119-149, 2002 Aspects of carbon isotope biogeochemistry of late Quaternary sediments from the Marmara Sea and Black Sea T. Abrajano; A. E. Aksu; R. N. Hiscott; P. J. Mudie Marine Geology 190(1): 151-164, 2002 Dinoflagellate cysts, freshwater algae and fungal spores as salinity indicators in Late Quaternary cores from Marmara and Black seas (812K PDF) P. J. Mudie; A. Rochon; Ali E. Aksu; Helen Gillespie Marine Geology 190(1): 203-231, 2002 Pollen stratigraphy of Late Quaternary cores from Marmara Sea: land-sea correlation and paleoclimatic history (1.6MB PDF) P. J. Mudie; A. Rochon; Ali E. Aksu Marine Geology 190(1): 233-260, 2002 Late Quaternary dinoflagellate cysts from the Black, Marmara and Aegean seas: variations in assemblages, morphology and paleosalinity (952K PDF) P. J. Mudie; Ali E. Aksu; D. Yasar Marine Micropaleontology 43(1): 155-178, 2001 Organic geochemical and palynological evidence for terrigenous origin of the organic matter in Aegean Sea sapropel S1 A. E. Aksua; T. Abrajano; P. J. Mudie; D. Yasar Marine Geology 153(1): 303-318, 1999 Messinian evaporites in Zakynthos, Greece N. Kontopoulos; A. Zelilidis; D. J. W. Piper; P. J. Mudie Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 129(3): 361-367, 1997 Origin of late glacial-Holocene hemipelagic sediments in the Aegean Sea: clay mineralogy and carbonate cementation A. E. Aksu; D. Yasar; P. J. Mudie Marine Geology 123(1): 33-59, 1995 Late glacial-Holocene paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic evolution of the Aegean Sea: micropaleontological and stable isotopic evidence A. E. Aksu; D. Yasar; P. J. Mudie; H. Gillespie Marine Micropaleontology 25(1): 1-28, 1995 Paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic conditions leading to development of sapropel layer S1 in the Aegean Sea A. E. Aksu; D. Yasar; P. J. Mudie Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 116(1): 71-101, 1995 Paleoceanographic significance of sediment color on western North Atlantic Drifts: II. Late Pliocene-Pleistocene sedimentation Liviu Giosan; Roger D. Flood; Jens Grützner; Peta Mudie Marine Geology 189(1): 43-61, 2002 A 340,000 year record of ice rafting, palaeoclimatic fluctuations, and shelf-crossing glacial advances in the southwestern Labrador Sea Richard N. Hiscott; Ali E. Aksu; Peta J. Mudie; David F. Parsons Global and Planetary Change 28(1): 227-240, 2001
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