Bektaş et al. (2024:13) report that "around the middle 5th century CE, there are implications of coeval turbidites in R/V Thuwal cores 9, 10, and 11 in the Dakar and Aragonese basins." They interpreted these turbidites as having a seismic origin and suggested they may have been generated by the southern Cyril Quake of 363 CE. Based on Probability Density Functions (PDFs) presented in Fig. 8 of their paper, the turbidites are estimated to have been deposited between approximately 300 and 550 CE.

Left - Fig. 1 - Location Map - Right - Core 9 - Radiographic images, magnetic susceptibility, sand content and Zr/Sr profiles of Aqaba cores, together with sedimentary event descriptions - click on any image to open in a new tab - all images from Bektaş et al. (2024)

Left - Core 10 - Right - Core 11 - All Cores are radiographic images, magnetic susceptibility, sand content and Zr/Sr profiles of Aqaba cores, together with sedimentary event descriptions - click on any image to open in a new tab - all images from Bektaş et al. (2024)