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Evolution of the Croatian shore line between Poreč and Split over the past 2000 years

A submerged notch, corresponding to a sea level lower by 50 cm than the present one, can be observed in several places along the Croatian coast between Poreč and Pag. A number of submerged archaeological remains like Roman quarries, fish-ponds, cisterns, give evidence that the notch corresponds to the sea level in Roman Antiquity, 2000 years ago. In the coastal section immediately to the south, between Zadar and Split, Roman submerged archaeological remains are related to a sea level lower by 1, 50 m than the present one. We present our observations along the Croatian coastline, from Poreč to Split, and discuss the possibility of a regional neotectonic effect on the last 2000 years. Those observations, however, are not totally compatible with the reconstitution of the variations of the sea level in Northern Adriatic as carried out by Lambeck and Johnston (1995).

Croatia; sea-level; tidal-notch; neotectonics; holocene

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