Growth patterns of the last ice age coral terraces at Huon Peninsula

At Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, prolific coral growth during the last-glacial was episodic and in response to a series of sea-level rises. The resultant step-like coral terraces are currently situated from 20 m up to 140 m above sea-level due to co

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Global and Planetary Change
Main Authors: Esat, Tezer, Yokoyama, Yusuke
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Elsevier
Subjects:
Keywords: coral
coral reef
glacioeustacy
growth rate
Heinrich event
ice sheet
Last Glacial
paleoclimate
Pleistocene
radiocarbon dating
sea level change
uranium series dating
Huon Peninsula
Melanesia
Pacific islands
Pacific Ocean
Papua New Guinea
An coral terraces
Heinrich events
sea-level change
U-series dating
Pacific
Huon
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1885/17587
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.06.020
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Summary:At Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, prolific coral growth during the last-glacial was episodic and in response to a series of sea-level rises. The resultant step-like coral terraces are currently situated from 20 m up to 140 m above sea-level due to co

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