Geoarchaeology of the Mesopotamian Floodplain Sediments

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Geologically, the Mesopotamian region represents the foreland basin to the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt, and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are axial drainage systems that pass along this basin from northwest to southeast. The Mesopotamian floodplain was mainly built by the Holocene sediments of the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. The Holocene deposits are about 15 - 20m thick, composed of several greyish floodplain sediments alternating between fine and medium sand of a channel belt, fine sand to silty sand of a crevasse splay, and finally, a silty clay to clay flood basin. These sediments were deposited in a climate that was warming up after the last phase of the Pleistocene's pluvial conditions.

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University of Copenhagen School of Archaeology(Organizer, Host)

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