A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition
International audience Ice-sheet and sea-level fluctuations during the Early and Middle Pleistocene are as yet poorly understood. A stalactite from a karst cave in North West Sicily (Italy) provides the first evidence of four marine inundations that correspond to relative sea-level highstands at the...
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Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea Level changes Paleogeography Western Europe Speleothems Corals Stable isotopes U-Th dating 87Sr/86 41 Sr ages Geomorphology coastal [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology |
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International audience Ice-sheet and sea-level fluctuations during the Early and Middle Pleistocene are as yet poorly understood. A stalactite from a karst cave in North West Sicily (Italy) provides the first evidence of four marine inundations that correspond to relative sea-level highstands at the time of the Middle Pleistocene Transition. The speleothem is located ∼97 m above mean sea level as result of Quaternary uplift. Its section reveals three marine hiatuses and a coral overgrowth that fixes the age of final marine ingression at 1.124 ± 0.2, thus making this speleothem the oldest stalactite with marine hiatuses ever studied to date. Scleractinian coral species witness light-limited conditions and water depth of 20–50 m. Integrating the coral-constrained depth with the geologically constrained uplift rate and an ensemble of RSL scenarios, we find that the age of the last marine ingression most likely coincides with Marine Isotope Stage 35 on the basis of a probabilistic assessment. Our findings are consistent with a significant Antarctic ice-sheet retreat. |
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Stocchi, Paolo Antonioli, Fabrizio Montagna, Paolo Pepe, Fabrizio Lo Presti, Valeria Caruso, Antonio Corradino, Marta Dardanelli, Gino Renda, Pietro Frank, Norbert Douville, Eric Thil, François de Boer, Bas Ruggieri, Rosario Sciortino, Rosanna Pierre, Catherine |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the middle pleistocene transition |
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-01584253v1 2023-05-15T13:31:10+02:00 A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition Stocchi, Paolo Antonioli, Fabrizio Montagna, Paolo Pepe, Fabrizio Lo Presti, Valeria Caruso, Antonio Corradino, Marta Dardanelli, Gino Renda, Pietro Frank, Norbert Douville, Eric Thil, François de Boer, Bas Ruggieri, Rosario Sciortino, Rosanna Pierre, Catherine Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Utrecht University Utrecht Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) Istituto di Science Marine (ISMAR ) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève (ObsGE) Université de Genève (UNIGE) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare Palermo (DiSTeM) Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg Géochrononologie Traceurs Archéométrie (GEOTRAC) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) University of Nova Gorica Biogéochimie-Traceurs-Paléoclimat (BTP) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2017 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01584253 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01584253/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01584253/file/56.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 hal-01584253 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01584253 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01584253/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01584253/file/56.pdf doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0277-3791 Quaternary Science Reviews https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01584253 Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2017, 173, pp.92 - 100. ⟨10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008⟩ Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea Level changes Paleogeography Western Europe Speleothems Corals Stable isotopes U-Th dating 87Sr/86 41 Sr ages Geomorphology coastal [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces environment [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2017 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 2022-01-09T00:18:51Z International audience Ice-sheet and sea-level fluctuations during the Early and Middle Pleistocene are as yet poorly understood. A stalactite from a karst cave in North West Sicily (Italy) provides the first evidence of four marine inundations that correspond to relative sea-level highstands at the time of the Middle Pleistocene Transition. The speleothem is located ∼97 m above mean sea level as result of Quaternary uplift. Its section reveals three marine hiatuses and a coral overgrowth that fixes the age of final marine ingression at 1.124 ± 0.2, thus making this speleothem the oldest stalactite with marine hiatuses ever studied to date. Scleractinian coral species witness light-limited conditions and water depth of 20–50 m. Integrating the coral-constrained depth with the geologically constrained uplift rate and an ensemble of RSL scenarios, we find that the age of the last marine ingression most likely coincides with Marine Isotope Stage 35 on the basis of a probabilistic assessment. Our findings are consistent with a significant Antarctic ice-sheet retreat. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Antarctic Quaternary Science Reviews 173 92 100 |