Die interglazialen marinen Strände und der Aufbau des antarktischen Inlandeises

• Published in: E&G Quaternary Science Journal
• Main Author: Woldstedt, Paul
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geozon Science Media 1965
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarktis*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3285/eg.16.1.02; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00039528; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00039205/egqsj-16-31-1965.pdf; https://egqsj.copernicus.org/articles/16/31/1965/egqsj-16-31-1965.pdf

The interglacial marine beaches (Sicilian, Milazzian etc.) are mostly explained as signs of ancient higher ocean levels. But where we can prove the height of ancient ocean levels, this is not very different from the present one. The ancient beaches cannot be explained by sinking of the ocean level, but only by rise of the continents. Thus they are really „raised beaches".