Late Miocene to Early Pliocene depositional history of the intramontane Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin, NW Greece: Interplay between orbital forcing and tectonics

Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene shallow lacustrine deposits from the Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin in northwest Greece show a distinct m-scale sedimentary cyclicity of alternating marls and lignites or clays, which were shown to be primarily related to precession-induced climate variations ([van Vugt, N., Steenbrink, J., Langereis, C.G., Hilgen, F.J., Meulenkamp, J.E., 1998. Magnetostratigraphy-based astronomical tuning of the early Pliocene lacustrine sediments of Ptolemais (NW Greece) and bed-to-bed correlation with the marine record. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 164 (3-4) 535-551; Steenbrink, J., Van Vugt, N., Hilgen, F.J., Wijbrans, J.R., Meulenkamp, J.E., 1999. Sedimentary cycles and volcanic ash beds in the lower Pliocene lacustrine succession of Ptolemais (NW Greece): Discrepancy between