Coupled Climate and sea-level changes deduced from Huon Peninsula coral terraces of the last ice age

• Main Authors: Yokoyama, Yusuke, Esat, Tezer, Lambeck, Kurt
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: Keywords: climate change; coral; Heinrich event; Last Glacial; Quaternary; sea level change; Papua New Guinea Absolute age; Anthozoa; Heinrich events; Sea-Level changes; Uranium disequilibrium; Antarctic; Huon; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/92711

Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, is a tectonically unstable, uplifting shoreline ringed by emergent coral terraces. The terraces were formed during episodes of rapid sea-level rise when corals constructed large, discrete coral platforms that were subsequently uplifted. Uranium series ages of four p...