Micropaleontological findings and absolute ages mark the termination of the Last Glacial Maximum in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: New electron spin resonance data from Gediz Delta (Western Turkey)

Sediments and fossil content of Gediz Delta (Eastern Aegean Sea-İzmir) were examined from the samples collected three drilling cores west (seaward) to east (landward) delta. Each core contains Quarternary marine deposits with a fauna foraminifers, bivalves, gastropods, echinoids, ostracods at bottom Quaternary continental delta top. According our Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) age model sediments Sea started cover western area before 19.9 ka (thousand years). Following Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), after transgression due deglaciation occurred 15.3 ago, coastline progressed 15-20 km eastward covered entire area. At end LGM, as result overflow Manisa Lake depending on in Western Anatolia, its flow Emiralem Strait İzmir Bay, reaching West region are younger than 11.4 ka.