ESSDD Earth System Science Data Discussions ESSDD Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. 1866-3591 Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/essd-2020-357 MIS 5e sea-level proxies in the eastern Mediterranean coastal region Mauz Barbara https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-333X 1 2 Sivan Dorit 3 Galili Ehud 4 School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZT, UK Department of Geology and Geography, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 5020, Austria Maritime Civilizations Department, L. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, 199 Aba-Khoushi Avenue, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel 27 11 2020 2020 1 22 Copyright: © 2020 Barbara Mauz et al. 2020 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2020-357/ The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2020-357/essd-2020-357.pdf

<p>Mediterranean <q>raised beaches</q> were subject to Quaternary research since the early years of the 20th century. The uniqueness of a warm-loving molluscs fauna immigrating into the Mediterranean made the coastline a prime subject for studying Quaternary sea-level changes. Today, we have a detailed picture of this historically important coastline characterised by tectonically dormant coastal zone alternating with zones that are subject to subsidence or uplift. As part of the Word Atlas of last interglacial shorelines (WALIS) database we compiled 21 MIS 5e proxies for the for the eastern Mediterranean area available at <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4274178" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4274178</a> (Israel; Sivan and Galili, 2020) and at <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4283819" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4283819</a> (Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia; Mauz, 2020). All these datapoints are sea-level indicators of variable quality situated between &minus;1&thinsp;±&thinsp;4&thinsp;m and 7&thinsp;±&thinsp;2&thinsp;m resulting in a reconstructed MIS 5e palaeo-sea level situated between &minus;1&thinsp;±&thinsp;4&thinsp;m and 13&thinsp;±&thinsp;10&thinsp;m.</p>