During the Quaternary several lakes have occupied the tectonic depressions along the Dead Sea transform (DST): the mid- to late Pleistocene Lake Amora, the last interglacial Lake Samra, the last glacial Lake Lisan and the Holocene to modern Dead Sea The limnological conditions of these lakes (e.g., levels, structure and chemistry) were largely affected by hydrological changes in their watershed. Their sedimentary record, therefore, serves as regional paleoclimatological gauges that consistently recorded wet and dry episodes at all temporal scales. This study focuses on the sedimentological and limnological history of Lake Samra that occupied the Dead Sea basin (DSB) during the last interglacial. Well-exposed stratigraphic sections from onshore to lake-margin and deeper lacustrine environments are
available for reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental conditions
and stratigraphy architecture (following similar works such as
Manspeizer, 1985, and Bartov et al., 2007, among others). The
remarkable preservation of lacustrine and fluvial archives from the