Refining the eustatic sea-level curve since the Last Glacial Maximum using far- and intermediate-field sites

Fleming, Kevin; Johnston, Paul; Zwartz, Dan; Yokoyama, Yūsuke; Lambeck, Kurt; Chappell, John

doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(98)00198-8

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“…-125 ± 5 m (Fleming et al, 1998;Waelbroeck et al, 2002); the base level lowering caused a new phase of vertical incisión. Still, during MIS 2, the alluvial plain surface was affected by pedogenesis phenomena, with the formation of a paleosoil that very often closes lies at the top of the RPL unit; in fact, the age of the sample from this paleosoil (VZ 169d; Table 1) is referable to the Last Glacial Máximum (LGM).…”

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Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

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Sedimentary Geology

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The geologic study of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Apulia región, southern Italy) is extremely difficult due to the scarcity of outcrops and fauna that could be used for dating. The survey inprogressof the 1:50,000 scale geological sheetno. 409 "Zapponeta" (including the coastal zone of the Apulian Tavoliere) has prompted us to tackle this problem by using a large set of borehole data and the AAR dating method applied to ostracod shells, which are capable of colonizing all types of environment as long as there is water. This alternative approach has allowed us to recognise nine stratigraphic units or synthems and, for the first time in this área, to date them, and to find a correlation between them and the cycles of sea level variation. The recognised stratigraphic units are: the Coppa Nevigata sands (NEA; middle Pleistocene: MIS 17-16), argíüe subappennine unit (ASP; middle Pleistocene: MIS 15-13), the Coppa Nevigata synthem (NVI; middle Pleistocene: MIS 11), the Arriendóla subsynthem (MLMi; middle Pleistocene: MIS 11), an undifferentiated continental unit (UCI; middle Pleistocene: MIS 8-7), the Foggia synthem (TGF; middlelate Pleistocene: MIS 6), the Carapelle and Cervaro streams synthem (RPL; late Pleistocene: MIS 5-3), and the Inacquata farm synthem (NAQ; Holocene). Within the RPL unit, a buried Cladocora caespitosa bioherm referable to MIS 5.5, lacking in warm fauna, and in which the coral is embedded in clay has been found in some boreholes. This is the first finding of Tyrrhenian deposits with C. caespitosa along the Italian Adriatic coast; the presence of this coral in clayey sediments, a very uncommon occurrence, strengthens the hypothesis that the major fossil reefs grew in coastal waters that were characterised by alluvial inputs of fine sediments, higher turbidity, and higher temperature than today. In addition, on the basis of the current evidence, some consideration about the fauna of the MIS 5.5 layer allows us to hypothesise that the Adriatic Sea underwent a more modérate warming compared to that of the Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas. Instead, the finding in the NVI unit of a tropical lagoonal deposit with stromatolites referred to MIS 11 proves that the warming in this stage was undoubtedly greater than that of MIS 5.5. The MM4 borehole, which goes through the MIS 5 layers of the RPL unit, made it possible to recognise two marine phases during MIS 5: the first is referable to the MIS 5.5-5.3 interval, and the second to MIS 5.1. MIS 5.2 is marked by land emersión, whereas no evidence of land emersión between MIS 5.5 and 5.3 has been found. Also for the first time in this área, uplifting and subsiding áreas have been recognised and the vertical movements assessed. In general, the data suggest that the Garganic Apulian foreland and the Amendola highland experienced an uplift, while the central-southern part of the study área, belonging to the Apulian Tavoliere plain, suffered a subsidence with rates increasing from north-northwest to south-southeast. In particular, the finding of the MIS 5.5 bu...

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Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

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“…To reduce this uncertainty and to avoid any bias introduced by selecting a particular curve, we compiled several sea-level curves and calculated a range in the uplift rates according to the resulting values. In this regard, we implemented the sea-level records from Barbados (Fairbanks, 1989;Bard et al, 1990) and Tahiti (Bard et al, 1996), both based on fossil coral samples, as well as the global stack of sea-level curves of Fleming et al (1998) (Fig. 8).…”

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“…However, when the conditions changed from marginal marine to lacustrine, the barriers must have been elevated above sea level to truncate the systems from the Pacific Ocean and to let the lakes finally develop. As a result, the uplift of the barriers in the period between Transition 1 and Transition 2 must have been of a similar dimension (Fleming et al, 1998), Barbados (Fairbanks, 1989;Bard et al, 1990), Tahiti (Bard et al, 1996).…”

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Forearc uplift rates deduced from sediment cores of two coastal lakes in south-central Chile

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The present paper introduces a new approach for deriving information about local forearc tectonics and related uplift rates based on the study of lake sediments. We investigated two coastal lakes at the south-central Chile margin, lakes Lanalhue and Lleu Lleu, located south of the Arauco Peninsula (38°S). Both lakes developed within the valleys of ancient rivers that once drained to the Pacific Ocean, being subsequently dammed by rising sills in the late Pleistocene/early Holocene. Seismic profiling and sedimentological analyses of cores from both lakes revealed similar successions consisting of marine to brackish sediments covered by lacustrine deposits. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the marine-lacustrine transition occurred at 8 ka and 8.15 ka, respectively. The correlation of this transition with global sea-level curves allowed the calculation of local uplift rates for the Holocene. Uplift rates for the lake basins amount to 0.42 ± 0.71 and 0.49 ± 0.44 mm/a, respectively, which are consistent with rates determined from a late Pleistocene marine terrace in the area. However, conspicuously higher, though likely transient, vertical movements at 8.83 ± 2.7 mm/a and 11.36 ±1.77 mm/a, respectively, were calculated for the sills that block both lakes nowadays. These barriers are interpreted to be the surface expression of a blind reverse fault associated to the Morguilla fault system, a seismically-active structure that controls uplift and folding along the adjacent Arauco Peninsula.

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“…Furthermore, sea-level changes in far-field locations (those with a distal position from formerly glaciated areas), are of interest, as they provide the most robust constraints on the eustatic component of the sea-level signal (e.g. Nakada and Lambeck 1989;Fleming et al 1998;Lambeck 2002;Milne et al 2002;Peltier 2002) and can be employed to constrain the source geometry of major meltwater pulses (Clark et al 2002;Bassett et al 2005). The use of coral reconstructions (Fairbanks 1989;Chappell and Polach 1991;Bard et al 1996) has proved extremely useful for reconstructions prior to the Holocene but the large error ranges (±2.5m , Fairbanks 1989;±5m Blanchon 2005) limit their use for Holocene reconstructions where the error is often greater than the magnitude of the change being investigated.…”

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

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Refining the eustatic sea-level curve since the Last Glacial Maximum using far- and intermediate-field sites

Cited by 712 publications

References 43 publications

Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

Stratigraphic units of the Apulian Tavoliere plain (Southern Italy): Chronology, correlation with marine isotope stages and implications regarding vertical movements

Forearc uplift rates deduced from sediment cores of two coastal lakes in south-central Chile

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

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