23th October 2020

Call for Special Issue
We are pleased to announce that our proposal for a SPECIAL ISSUE in QUATERNARTY INTERNATIONAL (ELSEVIER) “LOST LANDSCAPES: RECONSTRUCTING THE EVOLUTION OF COASTAL AREAS SINCE THE LATE PLEISTOCENE” was accepted.
The SHORT TITLE is “PALEOCOASTS
Guest Editors: Gaia Mattei, Ana Novak, Claudia Caporizzo, Livio Ronchi, Martin Seeliger

If you have some unpublished “Neptune-themed” research and are interested in submission, send an E-Mail with the list of authors and a provisional title to gaia.mattei@uniparthenope.it
Please add the acknowledgement text: "This paper (also) benefited from the discussion(s) at the Neptune meeting (INQUA CMP project 2003P).“

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect contributions discussing methodological and/or multi-disciplinary approaches to the reconstruction of past landscapes, from the onshore to the offshore, regional and local coastal modification that followed relative sea-level changes or extreme events in historical and recent times.
Such information is crucial to assess the potential impact of relative sea-level rise and to prepare the adaptation of coastal communities threatened by changing climate. In this special issue, special attention is paid to the technological content, considering that the recent technological innovation applied to geo-acoustic and remote-sensing methods opened numerous new possibilities of high-resolution mapping of wide coastal areas, seabed morphologies, and underwater archaeological structures.

The main topics included in this Special Issue:
• sea-level changes and human activities
• palaeo-environmental reconstruction in coastal areas
• geomorphological, stratigraphical and archaeological sea-level markers
• underwater archaeology
• advances methodology and applications for paleo-landscape reconstructions
• high-resolution 3D modeling of underwater landscapes
• VGM in coastal areas measured by remote sensing techniques
• cases of historical and recent anthropogenic coastal modification

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