A high-precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia

Collins, LB, Zhao, JX and Freeman, H (2006) A high-precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia. Quaternary International, 145 : 78-85.


Author Collins, LB
Zhao, JX
Freeman, H
Title A high-precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia
Journal name Quaternary International  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank B)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2006
Sub-type Article
DOI 10.1016/j.quaint.2005.07.006
Volume number 145
ISSN 1040-6182
Start page 78
End page 85
Total pages 8
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publisher Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
Collection year 2006
Language eng
Subject C1
260114 Geomorphology
780102 Physical sciences
Abstract Early work on sea-levels in southwest Australia claimed to recognise a Holocene sea-level highstand which was not seen in better known sea-level records elsewhere at the time. More recent work has confirmed that a mid-Holocene highstand Occurred about 6 kyr ago. As new data on oscillating sea-levels from the region have recently been published, a high continuity, precisely dated and accurately surveyed record was obtained from emergent coral pavements in the leeward Houtman Abrolhos Islands (Serventy Island), a tectonically stable region from where good-quality Holocene sea-level data have been previously obtained from corals. From the mid-Holocene highstand ca. 7 U/Th kyr ago, sea-level declined linearly during the remainder of the Holocene as the carbonate platform prograded leewards. Hydro-isostatic controls are probably significant in the record. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
Keyword Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Geology
Western-australia
Indian-ocean
Indicators
Reef
Pleistocene
Growth
Region
Ages
Geography, Physical
Q-Index Code C1

 
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