A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition
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 Ple...
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ftenea:oai:iris.enea.it:20.500.12079/3179 2024-03-31T07:49:02+00:00 A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition Lo Presti, V. Antonioli, F. Lo Presti, V. Antonioli, F. 2017 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12079/3179 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85027890459&doi=10.1016%2fj.quascirev.2017.08.008&partnerID=40&md5=f950f56d65599e49c9a7f7af3d8bf01a en eng Elsevier Ltd volume:173 numberofpages:92 - 100 journal:QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12079/3179 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85027890459 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85027890459&doi=10.1016%2fj.quascirev.2017.08.008&partnerID=40&md5=f950f56d65599e49c9a7f7af3d8bf01a 87Sr/86Sr age Coral U-Th dating Pleistocene Stable isotope Western Europe Interglacial(s) Sea level change Speleothems info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2017 ftenea https://doi.org/20.500.12079/317910.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 2024-03-06T00:14:12Z 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. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet ENEA-IRIS Open Archive (Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile) Antarctic Quaternary Science Reviews 173 92 100 |
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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. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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