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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ftvuamstcris:oai:research.vu.nl:publications/21147c08-2cbd-4282-96c1-152c078e18e2 2024-10-13T14:02:43+00:00 A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition Stocchi, Paolo Antonioli, Fabrizio Montagna, Paolo Pepe, Fabrizio Lo Presti, Valeria Caruso, Antonio Corradino, Marta Dardanelli, Gino Renda, Pietro Frank, Norbert Douville, Eric Thil, François de Boer, Bas Ruggieri, Rosario Sciortino, Rosanna Pierre, Catherine 2017-10-01 https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/21147c08-2cbd-4282-96c1-152c078e18e2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 https://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/21147c08-2cbd-4282-96c1-152c078e18e2 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85027890459&partnerID=8YFLogxK http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85027890459&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess 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 , ' A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition ' , Quaternary Science Reviews , vol. 173 , pp. 92-100 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 Sr/Sr ages Corals Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea level changes Speleothems Stable isotopes U-Th dating Western Europe /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water name=SDG 14 - Life Below Water article 2017 ftvuamstcris https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 2024-09-26T14:52:10Z 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 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU): Research Portal Antarctic Quaternary Science Reviews 173 92 100 |
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Sr/Sr ages Corals Interglacial(s) Pleistocene Sea level changes Speleothems Stable isotopes U-Th dating Western Europe /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water name=SDG 14 - Life Below Water Stocchi, Paolo Antonioli, Fabrizio Montagna, Paolo Pepe, Fabrizio Lo Presti, Valeria Caruso, Antonio Corradino, Marta Dardanelli, Gino Renda, Pietro Frank, Norbert Douville, Eric Thil, François de Boer, Bas Ruggieri, Rosario Sciortino, Rosanna Pierre, Catherine A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition |
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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, Paolo Antonioli, Fabrizio Montagna, Paolo Pepe, Fabrizio Lo Presti, Valeria Caruso, Antonio Corradino, Marta Dardanelli, Gino Renda, Pietro Frank, Norbert Douville, Eric Thil, François de Boer, Bas Ruggieri, Rosario Sciortino, Rosanna Pierre, Catherine |
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Stocchi, Paolo Antonioli, Fabrizio Montagna, Paolo Pepe, Fabrizio Lo Presti, Valeria Caruso, Antonio Corradino, Marta Dardanelli, Gino Renda, Pietro Frank, Norbert Douville, Eric Thil, François de Boer, Bas Ruggieri, Rosario Sciortino, Rosanna Pierre, Catherine |
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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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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 , ' A stalactite record of four relative sea-level highstands during the Middle Pleistocene Transition ' , Quaternary Science Reviews , vol. 173 , pp. 92-100 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.008 |
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