The Misery Point cliff, Mayaguana Island, SE Bahamas: a unique record of sea-level highstands since the Early Pleistocene

• Published in: Swiss Journal of Geosciences
• Main Authors: Godefroid, Fabienne, Kindler, Pascal, Chiaradia, Massimo, Fischer, Gyongyver Jennifer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550; First Island; Misery Point; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:128315

We describe in detail a unique succession of Lower Pleistocene shallow-water carbonates exposed at the Misery Point sea cliff along the northern shoreline of Mayaguana Island (SE Bahamas). This km-scale outcrop comprises a record of seven past sea-level highstands that occurred between ca. 1.3 Ma an...