Benthic foraminifera as palaeoenvironmental indicators during the last million years in the eastern Mediterranean inner shelf

The distribution of the biofacies suggests water depths no deeper than 15 m during most interglacial stages, water depths to 15-40 m during short transgressive phases of MIS 5.5, 7, 11 and 13, and water depth reaching 40-80 m in the earliest transgressive phases (MIS 27? and MIS 29?). The environmental conditions on both sides of the fault were quite similar along the succession. This suggests that the movements of the uplifted and down-faulted blocks have more or less coincided since about 1 Ma.