Holocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Depositional Environments on the Sunda Shelf, Southwest South China Sea, using a Multidisciplinary Approach

• Main Author: Twarog, Michael R.
• Other Authors: Leorri, Eduardo Soriano, Culver, Stephen J., Geological Sciences
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: East Carolina University 2019
• Subjects: sunda shelf; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; depositional environments; Paleoecology > South China Sea > Holocene; Sedimentation and deposition > Research > South China Sea; Global environmental change; Foraminifera > South China Sea; Sea level > South China Sea; Sunda; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7017

The last glacial maximum, ca. 21,000 years ago, caused a fall in eustatic sea level of ca. 120 m below present. The low-gradient, shallow Sunda Shelf, Southeast Asia was subaerially exposed during this sea-level lowstand and experienced rising sea level thereafter. Sea level rose to a +1.3--5 m high...