Sea level and shoreline reconstructions for the Red Sea: isostatic and tectonic considerations and implications for hominin migration out of Africa

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Purcell, Anthony, Flemming, Nic C, Vita-Finzi, Claudio, Al-Sharekh, Abdullah, Bailey, Geoff N., Lambeck, Kurt
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd
• Subjects: Keywords: Bathymetric data; Channel widths; Climatic conditions; Cross sectional area; Far-field; Glacial cycles; Glacial maxima; Global sea levels; Gulf of Aden; Holocenes; Ice sheet; Interglacials; Last Glacial Maximum; Last interglacial; Late Holocene; Location; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/37929; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.008; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/37929/5/Purcell_-_Sea_level_and_shoreline_reconstructions_for_the_Red_Sea.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/37929/7/01_Lambeck_Sea_level_and_shoreline_2011.pdf.jpg

The history of sea level within the Red Sea basin impinges on several areas of research. For archaeology and prehistory, past sea levels of the southern sector define possible pathways of human dispersal out of Africa. For tectonics, the interglacial sea