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

• Main Authors: NC DOCKS at East Carolina University, Twarog, Michael R.
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: sunda shelf;paleoenvironmental reconstruction;depositional environments; Sunda; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/ecu/f/0000-embargo-holder.txt

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...