The timing of sea-level high-stands during Marine Isotope Stages 7.5 and 9: Constraints from the uranium-series dating of fossil corals from Henderson Island

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Andersen, M., Stirling, C., Potter, E., Halliday, A., Blake, S., Mcculloch, M., Ayling, B., O'Leary, Mick
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd 2010
• Subjects: Henderson Island; Pacific; Stirling
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8633; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.03.020

Direct dating of fossil coral reefs using the U-series chronometer provides an important independent test of the Milankovitch orbital forcing theory of climate change. However, well-dated fossil corals pre-dating the last interglacial period (>130 thousand years ago; ka) are scarce due to, (1) a...