Late Pleistocene Paleoclimates and sea-level change in the Mediterranean as inferred from stable isotope and U-series studies of overgrowths on speleothems, Mallorca, Spain

Vesica, Pierluigi; Tuccimei, Paola; Turi, B.; Fornós, Joan J.; Ginés, Àngel; Ginés, Joaquín

doi:10.1016/s0277-3791(99)00026-8

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“…100 kyr) has been attributed to OIS Sc or Sa (Hillaire-Marcel et al, 1996;Zazo et al, 2003). This attribution is in agreement with data from phreatic overgrowths in speleothemes (Vesica et al, 2000;Ginés et al, 2001;Fornós et al, 2002) obtained in littoral caves in eastern Mallorca. In these caves, at least two highstands are found during OIS Se (one at ca.…”

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confidence: 80%

Sea level and climate changes during OIS 5e in the Western Mediterranean

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Sea level and climate changes during OIS 5e in the Western Mediterranean

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“…A comparison among paleo sea-level records found around the globe show that estimates of the amplitude of highstands during MIS 7 are highly variable (Table I), but are below the values found for the Barrier System II. While some data indicate that the sea level during that interval did not reach amplitudes comparable to present mean sea-level (Dutton et al 2009, Bard et al 2002, Schellmann and Radtke 2004, other records indicate sea levels equal or slightly above the present one (Bezerra et al 1998, Vesica et al 2000. This variability is likely to be caused by different dating methods employed (U/ Th series, ESR), by differences among dated materials (corals, vermetids, shells, sediments) and by the tectonic history of each site, as is the case for Holocene deposits in northeastern Brazil (Barreto et al 2002, Suguio et al 2011).…”

Section: Amplitude Of the Transgressionmentioning

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The sea-level highstand correlated to marine isotope stage (MIS) 7 in the coastal plain of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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The coastal plain of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, includes four barrier-lagoon depositional systems formed by successive Quaternary sea-level highstands that were correlated to marine isotope stages (MIS) 11, 9, 5 and 1, despite the scarcity of absolute ages. This study describes a sea-level highstand older than MIS 5, based on the stratigraphy, ages and fossils of the shallow marine facies found in coastal barrier (Barrier II). This facies outcrops along the banks of Chuí Creek, it is composed of fine, well-sorted quartz sand and contains ichnofossils Ophiomorpha nodosa and Rosselia sp., and molluscan shells. The sedimentary record indicates coastal aggradation followed by sea-level fall and progradation of the coastline. Thermoluminescence (TL) and electron spin resonance (ESR) ages from sediments and fossil shells point to an age of ~220 ka for the end of this marine transgression, thus correlating it to MIS 7 (substage 7e). Altimetric data point to a maximum amplitude of about 10 meters above present-day mean sea-level, but tectonic processes may be involved. Paleoceanographic conditions at the time of the highstand and correlations with other deposits in the Brazilian coasts are also discussed.

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“…The ages given by more than 30 samples taken in the same section (Hillaire-Marcel et al, 1996) are in complete agreement not only with other sea level interpretations of the Mallorca littoral (see for instance Hearty, 1987, or Tuccimei et al, 2006 but also for sea level intervals defined for MIS 5.e all over the world (see the review done recently by Hearty et al, 2007). These authors report "significant widely agree about a similar or slightly higher than present sea level ( , [Hearty and Kaufman, 2000], [Vessica et al, 2000], [MurrayWallace et al, 2001], [Hearty, 2002], [Muhs et al, 2002], [Potter, 2004], [Wehmiller et al, 2004], [Tuccimei et al, 2006] and [Doar and Kendal, 2008] Finally, we are well aware of the difficulty of reconstructing a sea level curve in the Mediterranean, and this is why we have not attempted it. We do not infer the global sea level from our sites given in Island is given by some of the authors in Tuccimei et al (2006) …”

Section: Sea Level Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 79%