Figure 1

The location of the Dead Sea and sites that contain the Campanian Ignimbrite tephra within their records. (a) Map of the location of the Mediterranean region and eastern Europe showing the locations of records that have the Campanian Ignimbrite tephra within their sediments (updated from Smith et al.18). The sites highlighted in green are referred to in the text: (1) Lago Grande di Monticchio; (2) Tenaghi Philippon; (3) Megali Limni; (4) Black Sea M72-5-24-GC3. (b) A bathymetric map of the Dead Sea showing the location of the coring site, ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project 5017-1A (adapted from Müller et al.5). Satellite images used in both maps were obtained using Google Earth Pro application (version 7.3.6.9750, release date 2024) with data provided by SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO and images from Landsat/Copernicus.