Late Holocene sea level and reef-flat progradation, Phuket, South Thailand

Scoffin, Terence P.; Tissier, Martin Le

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“…On Tham Phaya Nak one can observe two notches. The size of the present one is concordant with the 1 m high stand of Scoffin et Le Tissier [62], the second notch is higher (5 to 6 m above high tide) and represents an older sea level whose age remains unknown. The barrier of big blocks at the entrance of the cave is only affected by the present sea notch.…”

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Effect of the 2004 Asian tsunami in the sea cave of Tham Phaya Nak (Koh Phi Phi archipelago, Thailand) and possible evidence of a prehistoric event

Gilli

2010

Geodinamica Acta

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:Tsunamis may leave traces on the landscapes whose study provides a prehistorical approach and the analysis of possible recurrences. In karstic areas, caves and speleothems are good recorders for natural or anthropogenic events. They preserve traces of fragile remains as prehistoric paintings and they have been used for palaeoseismology studies. The effects of the 2004 Asian tsunami on the karstic shores have been studied in Western Thailand, close to Phuket. Limestone cliffs of Koh Phi Islands and the marine cave of Phi Phi Leh have been poorly affected, but a prehistoric-event has provoked the deposit of a layer of coral fragments into the cave. This damage could be attributed to a tsunami but a storm cannot be excluded.© 2010 Lavoisier SAS. All rights reservedKeywords: tsunami, karst, coral, speleothems, cave PresentationA major tsunami may provoke the transport of large boulders on variable distances or the deposit of marine sediments: sand, sea shells, coral fragments, several hundreds of meters inland. These morphological effects, and the deposits related to historic events, have been studied since a long time, and many attempts were done to attribute a tsunami cause to marine sediments present on shore. The researches on continental deposits were initiated by Attwater, [1] in Oregon and Dawson et al.,[2] in Scotland. A great number of studies were conducted all over the word ever since.Deposits of coral boulders or coarse clasts and sand, tens to hundreds of meters inland are frequently attributed to prehistoric tsunamis [3,4,5,6,7,8,9].Meanwhile Dawson and Stewart [10] pointed out that evidence of tsunami impact has poor preservation potential, being often difficult to identify except for the largest ones [11]. In a study on several Carribean islands, Morton et al. [12] show that deposits previously attributed to tsunamis are depositional complexes, several centuries old, and are not entirely the result of tsunamis, but involve important storms.Except tsunamis, different mechanisms may explain the presence of marine sediments or blocks inland, sometimes at high altitudes: glacio-eustatism, hydro-isostasy, glacioisostasy, tectonics, storms.If geological or paleogeographical data are available, the question of tectonics or eustatism may easily find answers, but the storms effects are more difficult to estimate. A systematic sedimentological approach is needed to distinguish between 80Eric Gilli / Geodinamica Acta 23/1-3 (2010) [79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88] storm and tsunami deposits. Recent works focused on tsunami effects after the Papua New Guinea (1998) [3,14], and the Indian Ocean (2004) events [15,16] and several research axis were defined to characterize the sedimentary features of tsunami deposits [16]. The importance of the backwash is outlined [17,10] and several criteria were defined by different authors, as internal stratification of the deposit [15], sediment grain size [18] and micropaleontology [19,20].Boulder complexes deposited by tsunamis are easier to study [10];...

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“…yr BP was calculated on the Eastern shore of the Malay Thai peninsula [61] (Fig. 9).A study on coral fossils in the Western part of the Peninsula in Ko Taphao Kay reef flat, close to Phuket [62] proposes a + 1 m high stand (above present spring low tide) at 5945±47 cal. yr BP (Fig.…”

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Effect of the 2004 Asian tsunami in the sea cave of Tham Phaya Nak (Koh Phi Phi archipelago, Thailand) and possible evidence of a prehistoric event

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2010

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“…Sea-level has since declined from this point at a steady rate over the last 6000 years. Scoffin and Le Tissier (1998) interpret this data as representing either a mid Holocene higher sea-level from data based on mid-ocean coral reefs or due to the hydroisostatic flexure of the Thai coastline. This conclusion is reached due to the relative tectonic stability of the Phuket area that precludes tectonic based interpretations of falling sea-levels.…”

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Mangrove pollen of Indonesia and its suitability as a sea-level indicator

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source• a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses• the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Mangrove Pollen of Indonesia and its Suitability as a Sea-Level IndicatorThe copyright of this thesis rests with the author or the university to which it was submitted. No quotation from it, or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author or university, and any information derived from it should be acknowledged. Simon Edward EngelhartThesis The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotations from it should be published without his prior written consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged.11 AcknowledgemeBlts I would like to thank all those people who have helped in the production of this thesis.

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“…Investigations of Holocene RSL in the far-field region of Asia are concentrated in southeast Asia [150][151][152][153], although studies have expanded in recent years to include South Korea [154], the Philippines [155], China [145 -148], the MalayThai peninsula [160 -164 ], and Japan [165 ]. These records are characterized by a mid-Holocene highstand attributed to hydro-isostatic processes [166,167 ], which varies in magnitude and timing of initiation.…”

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“…Holocene studies from the Malay-Thai peninsula suggest a RSL highstand of up to 5 m between 6 and 4 ka, which may have exhibited an oscillatory subsequent fall [153,160,164,[169][170][171][172][173]. The highstand varies in magnitude by 3 to 4 m due to spatial variability from hydro-isostasy [167 ].…”

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Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes from Near-, Intermediate-, and Far-Field Locations

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Shaw

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Curr Clim Change Rep

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Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) records exhibit spatial and temporal variability that arises mainly from the interaction of eustatic (land ice volume and thermal expansion) and isostatic (glacio-and hydro-) factors. We fit RSL histories from near-, intermediate-, and far-field locations with noisy-input Gaussian process models to assess rates of RSL change. Records from near-field regions (e.g., Antarctica, Greenland, Canada, Sweden, and Scotland) reveal a complex pattern of RSL fall from a maximum marine limit due to the net effect of eustatic sea-level rise and glacio-isostatic uplift with rates of RSL fall as great as −69±9 m/ka. Intermediatefield regions (e.g., mid-Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the USA, Netherlands, Southern France, St. Croix) display variable rates of RSL rise from the cumulative effect of eustatic and isostatic factors. Fast rates of RSL rise (up to 10±1 m/ka) are found in the early Holocene in regions near the center of forebulge collapse. Far-field RSL records exhibit a midHolocene highstand, the timing (between 8 and 4 ka) and magnitude (between <1 and 6 m) of which varies among South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania regions.

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Late Holocene sea level and reef-flat progradation, Phuket, South Thailand

Cited by 51 publications

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Effect of the 2004 Asian tsunami in the sea cave of Tham Phaya Nak (Koh Phi Phi archipelago, Thailand) and possible evidence of a prehistoric event

Effect of the 2004 Asian tsunami in the sea cave of Tham Phaya Nak (Koh Phi Phi archipelago, Thailand) and possible evidence of a prehistoric event

Mangrove pollen of Indonesia and its suitability as a sea-level indicator

Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes from Near-, Intermediate-, and Far-Field Locations

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