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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ftunivpalermo:oai:iris.unipa.it:10447/240815 2024-02-11T09:58:08+01:00 A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition Stocchi, P. Antonioli, F. Montagna, P. PEPE, Fabrizio Lo Presti, V. CARUSO, Antonio Corradino, Marta DARDANELLI, Gino RENDA, Pietro Frank, N. Douville, E. Thil, F. de Boer, B. Ruggieri, R. SCIORTINO, Rosanna Pierre, C. Stocchi, P. Antonioli, F. Montagna, P. Pepe, F. Lo Presti, V. Caruso, A. Corradino, M. Dardanelli, G. Renda, P. Frank, N. Douville, E. Thil, F. de Boer, B. Ruggieri, R. Sciortino, R. Pierre, C. 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10447/240815 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 eng eng Elsevier Ltd country:NL info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000412266500006 volume:173 firstpage:92 lastpage:100 numberofpages:9 journal:QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS http://hdl.handle.net/10447/240815 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85027890459 www.vliz.be/nl/imis?module=ref&refid=288522 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess 87Sr/86Sr age Coral Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea level change Speleothem Stable isotope U-Th dating Western Europe Global and Planetary Change Archeology (arts and humanities) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematic Archeology Geology Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia E Paleoecologia Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E Sedimentologica Settore GEO/03 - Geologia Strutturale Settore ICAR/06 - Topografia E Cartografia info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2017 ftunivpalermo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 2024-01-23T23:27:32Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet IRIS Università degli Studi di Palermo Antarctic Quaternary Science Reviews 173 92 100 |
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87Sr/86Sr age Coral Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea level change Speleothem Stable isotope U-Th dating Western Europe Global and Planetary Change Archeology (arts and humanities) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematic Archeology Geology Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia E Paleoecologia Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E Sedimentologica Settore GEO/03 - Geologia Strutturale Settore ICAR/06 - Topografia E Cartografia |
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87Sr/86Sr age Coral Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea level change Speleothem Stable isotope U-Th dating Western Europe Global and Planetary Change Archeology (arts and humanities) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematic Archeology Geology Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia E Paleoecologia Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E Sedimentologica Settore GEO/03 - Geologia Strutturale Settore ICAR/06 - Topografia E Cartografia Stocchi, P. Antonioli, F. Montagna, P. PEPE, Fabrizio Lo Presti, V. CARUSO, Antonio Corradino, Marta DARDANELLI, Gino RENDA, Pietro Frank, N. Douville, E. Thil, F. de Boer, B. Ruggieri, R. SCIORTINO, Rosanna Pierre, C. A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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87Sr/86Sr age Coral Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea level change Speleothem Stable isotope U-Th dating Western Europe Global and Planetary Change Archeology (arts and humanities) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematic Archeology Geology Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia E Paleoecologia Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica E Sedimentologica Settore GEO/03 - Geologia Strutturale Settore ICAR/06 - Topografia E Cartografia |
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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. |
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Stocchi, P. Antonioli, F. Montagna, P. Pepe, F. Lo Presti, V. Caruso, A. Corradino, M. Dardanelli, G. Renda, P. Frank, N. Douville, E. Thil, F. de Boer, B. Ruggieri, R. Sciortino, R. Pierre, C. |
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Stocchi, P. Antonioli, F. Montagna, P. PEPE, Fabrizio Lo Presti, V. CARUSO, Antonio Corradino, Marta DARDANELLI, Gino RENDA, Pietro Frank, N. Douville, E. Thil, F. de Boer, B. Ruggieri, R. SCIORTINO, Rosanna Pierre, C. |
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Stocchi, P. Antonioli, F. Montagna, P. PEPE, Fabrizio Lo Presti, V. CARUSO, Antonio Corradino, Marta DARDANELLI, Gino RENDA, Pietro Frank, N. Douville, E. Thil, F. de Boer, B. Ruggieri, R. SCIORTINO, Rosanna Pierre, C. |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the middle pleistocene transition |
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