Mid-Holocene sea-level highstand along the Southeast Coast of China

Zong, Yongqiang

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(03)00116-2

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“…Lagoon, South Africa [42], West Guongdong, China [166], Singapore [160], and North Queensland, Australia [181], and New South Wales, Australia [182] shown as in Fig. 3 specified time interval based on a linear transformation of f(t).…”

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“…These records are characterized by a mid-Holocene highstand attributed to hydro-isostatic processes [166,167 ], which varies in magnitude and timing of initiation. RSL may also be influenced by active subduction zone tectonics from collision of the Eurasian, Indian, Philippine, and Pacific plates [44,168] or sediment loading from large river deltas [166].…”

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“…Zong [166] examined China's Yangtze Delta and Taihu area RSL histories and separated regions by geological setting to examine influences of global and local factors. Within large river deltas, RSL did not reach higher than present due to local subsidence and sediment consolidation.…”

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

Khan

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

Khan

Ashe

Shaw

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“…Shao [18] considered that the greatest transgression in the Yangtze Delta occurred about 6.9 ka BP. The different opinions of past high sea levels in the Mid-Holocene are likely related to the geological stability and nature of observed sediments, as evidence of past high sea levels generally requires stable geological structures to be preserved in coastal areas [19].…”

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Response of rice cultivation to fluctuating sea level during the Mid-Holocene

2011

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Archaeological analysis of a section of ancient rice fields at Tianluoshan for diatoms, seeds and phytoliths has shown that the highest local sea level in eastern China during the Holocene appeared before 7.0 ka BP. Entering the Mid-Holocene, as seawater regressed, a vast wetland plain appeared in the coastal area, where farmers of the Neolithic Hemudu culture cultivated rice. However, there were still several sea-level fluctuations in the Mid-Holocene, of which the biggest were from 6.4 to 6.3 ka BP and from 4.6 to 2.1 ka BP. In addition, in the period dominated by wetland grass vegetation, 6.3 to 4.6 ka BP, smaller fluctuations apparently pushed the coastline back on to the land. Even though the sea-level rises associated with these shoreline transgressions did not have the intensity of the highest sea level period, there still would have been profound impacts on the lives and production activities of people living in the region. Archaeological evidence from ancient rice fields at Tianluoshan shows that larger sea-level rise events pushed seawater onto the land and inundated large areas of rice fields, whereas weaker sea-level rise events resulted in the intrusion of seawater along rivers, causing an increase in soil salinity and a decrease in rice yields. The impact of sea-level rise on rice cultivation caused changes in local diet. In regions where rice production fell, the prevalence of gathering and hunting rose. High sea levels in the early Holocene imply that the origin of rice cultivation in the eastern coastal plain is likely to have been in small nearby mountain basins. At the end of the last glacial period (dated from 18 to 15 ka BP), as continental ice sheets quickly ablated and global sea levels rose, the gradual transition to the Holocene (post glacial) epoch occurred with a series of climatic fluctuations. Significant sea-level rise happened in the early Holocene, although there are many opinions on the magnitude, process, and rate of sea-level rise [1]. Relatively rapid sea-level rise continued until 7.5 ka BP, after which there was a general falling trend in the rate of sea-level change; however, fluctuations continued [2]. Most coastal areas in China have records of transgressions caused by sea-level rise in the Holocene. However, there are some local differences in the recognition of peak transgressions and the process of regressions because of regional differences in geological structures, paleotopography and depositional patterns from rivers and ocean currents [3]. For example, in the lower regions of the Yangtze River, the peak of transgression appeared between 7.5 and 7.0 ka BP, during which time the vertices of the estuary advanced to the areas between Zhenjiang and Yangzhou. Since then, the rate of sea-level rise has decreased and the rate of river deposition has increased resulting in the infilling of the huge estuary with a great deal of sediments, and the development of a delta [4,5]. The improved ecology of the delta provided suitable environments for lush vegetation and a rich faun...

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“…The technique has since been the subject of a number of studies (e.g. Horton 1997;Gehrels et al 2001;Zong 2004;Sawai et al 2004;Patterson et al 2004). Transfer functions have been applied using microfossil types such as foraminifera , diatoms (Zong and Horton 1999) and testate amoebae (Gehrels et al 2001) but pollen has yet to be incorporated into a transfer function.…”

Section: The Use Of Transfer Functions In Relative Sea-level Reconstrmentioning

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

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Mid-Holocene sea-level highstand along the Southeast Coast of China

Cited by 240 publications

References 24 publications

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

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

Response of rice cultivation to fluctuating sea level during the Mid-Holocene

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

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