A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia
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, and more recent work has confirmed that a mid Holocene highstand occurred about 6 ky ago. As new data on oscillating sea-lev...
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| author | Collins, Lindsay Zhao, J. Freeman, H. |
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| description | 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, and more recent work has confirmed that a mid Holocene highstand occurred about 6 ky 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 close to 7 ky U/Th ago, sea-level declined linearly during the remainder of the Holocene as the carbonate platform prograded leewards. Hydro-isostatic cotrols are probably significant in the record. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-215752017-01-30T12:26:02Z A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia Collins, Lindsay Zhao, J. Freeman, H. Holocene - sea-level change - U-series dating - coral pavements 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, and more recent work has confirmed that a mid Holocene highstand occurred about 6 ky 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 close to 7 ky U/Th ago, sea-level declined linearly during the remainder of the Holocene as the carbonate platform prograded leewards. Hydro-isostatic cotrols are probably significant in the record. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21575 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Holocene - sea-level change - U-series dating - coral pavements Collins, Lindsay Zhao, J. Freeman, H. A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia |
| title | A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia |
| title_full | A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia |
| title_fullStr | A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia |
| title_short | A high precision record of mid-late Holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, southwest Australia |
| title_sort | high precision record of mid-late holocene sea-level events from emergent coral pavements in the houtman abrolhos islands, southwest australia |
| topic | Holocene - sea-level change - U-series dating - coral pavements |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21575 |