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, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Henderson Island; Pacific; Stirling
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.03.020; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cf6c0fb6-a22b-4f13-8115-7d5f66515901

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...