An inflection in the rate of early mid-Holocene eustatic sea-level rise: A new sea-level curve from Singapore

• Published in: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
• Main Authors: Bird, Michael I, Fifield, L Keith, Teh, T. S, Chang, C H, Shirlaw, N, Lambeck, Kurt
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Keywords: deglaciation; Holocene; sea level change; Antarctica; Asia; Eurasia; Pacific Ocean; Singapore [Southeast Asia]; South China Sea; Southeast Asia; Sunda Shelf; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica Holocene; mangrove; palaeoclimate; radiocarbon; sea level; Sundaland; Antarctic; Pacific; Sunda; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/29022; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2006.07.004; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/29022/5/ANUP1792.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/29022/7/01_Bird_An_inflection_in_the_rate_of_2007.pdf.jpg

This study presents a sea-level curve from ∼9500 to ∼6500 cal BP for the farfield location of Singapore, on the Sunda Shelf in southeast Asia. The curve is based on more than 50 radiocarbon dates from elevations of +1.43 m to -15.09 m representing sea