Decoding last interglacial sea-level variations in the western Mediterranean using speleothem encrustations from coastal caves in Mallorca and Sardinia: A field data -- model comparison

2012 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Tuccimei ◽  
Bogdan P. Onac ◽  
Jeffrey A. Dorale ◽  
Joaquin Ginés ◽  
Joan J. Fornós ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Model Comparison ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Sea Level Variations

scholarly journals Sea level variations during the last interglacial

PAGES news ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-37
Author(s):  
Mark Siddall ◽  
RCA Hindmarsh ◽  
WG Thompson ◽  
A Dutton ◽  
RE Kopp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Sea Level Variations

Eustatic control of late Quaternary sea-level change in the Arabian/Persian Gulf

2014 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Stevens ◽  
Matthew J. Jestico ◽  
Graham Evans ◽  
Anthony Kirkham
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Osl Dating ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Coastal Evolution ◽  
Last Glacial ◽  
Sea Level Variations ◽  
The Last Glacial

AbstractAccurate sea-level reconstruction is critical in understanding the drivers of coastal evolution. Inliers of shallow marine limestone and aeolianite are exposed as zeugen (carbonate-capped erosional remnants) on the southern coast of the Arabian/Persian Gulf. These have generally been accepted as evidence of a eustatically driven, last-interglacial relative sea-level highstand preceded by a penultimate glacial-age lowstand. Instead, recent optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating suggests a last glacial age for these deposits, requiring >100 m of uplift since the last glacial maximum in order to keep pace with eustatic sea-level rise and implying the need for a wholesale revision of tectonic, stratigraphic and sea-level histories of the Gulf. These two hypotheses have radically different implications for regional neotectonics and land–sea distribution histories. Here we test these hypotheses using OSL dating of the zeugen formations. These new ages are remarkably consistent with earlier interpretations of the formations being last interglacial or older in age, showing that tectonic movements are negligible and eustatic sea-level variations are responsible for local sea-level changes in the Gulf. The cause of the large age differences between recent studies is unclear, although it appears related to large differences in the measured accumulated dose in different OSL samples.

scholarly journals Sea Level Variations in the Western Mediterranean Studied by a Numerical Tidal Model of the Strait of Gibraltar

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brandt ◽  
Angelo Rubino ◽  
Dmitry V. Sein ◽  
Burkard Baschek ◽  
Alfredo Izquierdo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Strait Of Gibraltar ◽  
Tidal Model ◽  
Sea Level Variations

scholarly journals A probabilistic assessment of sea level variations within the last interglacial stage

2013 ◽  
Vol 193 (2) ◽  
pp. 711-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Kopp ◽  
Frederik J. Simons ◽  
Jerry X. Mitrovica ◽  
Adam C. Maloof ◽  
Michael Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Probabilistic Assessment ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Sea Level Variations

A highly resolved record of relative sea level in the western Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 860-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor J. Polyak ◽  
Bogdan P. Onac ◽  
Joan J. Fornós ◽  
Carling Hay ◽  
Yemane Asmerom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Interglacial Period ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Last Interglacial Period

The Last Interglacial Sea Level database for the Western Mediterranean 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciro Cerrone ◽  
Matteo Vacchi ◽  
Alessandro Fontana ◽  
Alessio Rovere
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Amino Acid Racemization ◽  
Marine Deposits ◽  
Marine Terraces ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Open Access Database ◽  
Mis 5E

<p>An open access database containing raw data of Last Interglacial sea-level proxies for the Western Mediterranean has been compiled by reviewing hundreds of original published papers in accordance with the WALIS template (https://warmcoasts.eu/world-atlas.html). WALIS allows collecting both the relative sea-level (RSL) indicators and ages data in a standardized format. Ca. 360 sea-level index points for the coasts of Spain, France, Italy, Albania, Algeria and Morocco have been included in the database. The sea-level index points of the database are related to ca. 350 samples dated by a wide range of dating techniques, e.g., U-series, Amino Acid Racemization, Luminescence (Tl/OSL) and Electron Spin Resonance methods or chronostratigraphically correlated to marine deposits bearing P. latus and “Senegalese fauna”. In fact, for some areas of the Mediterranean Sea, the “Senegalese fauna” is indicative of the MIS 5e.</p><p>Among the eleven types of sea-level indicators of our database, the majority of them are represented by marine terraces, beach deposits (or beachrocks), and tidal notches. Whenever the relationship between the RSL indicators and the former sea-level could not be quantified, such indicators have been considered as marine or terrestrial limiting points. An indirect age of the tidal notches has been provided by correlation with the nearby dated deposit. In the case no precise elevation information has been reported by the Authors, the elevation error of RSL datapoints has been reassessed in the 20 % of the elevation value, more a 5% if the sea-level datum was lacking in the scientific papers we have reviewed.  Overall, the quality of each RSL datapoints and the associated age have been ranked in a 0 to 5 scale score according to Rovere et al., (2020).</p><p> </p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Rovere, A., Ryan, D., Murray-Wallace, C., Simms, A., Vacchi, M., Dutton, A., Gowan, E., 2020. Descriptions of database fields for the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS) (Version 1,0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961544</p>

scholarly journals Albian sea-level cycles in Oman: the ‘Rosetta Stone’ approach

GeoArabia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Immenhauser ◽  
Robley K. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Model Comparison ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Orbital Forcing ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Model Match ◽  
Sea Level Oscillations ◽  
The Many

ABSTRACT The Albian Nahr Umr Formation of Oman (bounded by the Shu’aiba and Natih formations) recorded high-, intermediate, and low-amplitude regressive-transgressive events. In order to reconstruct these sea-level oscillations in a semi-quantitative manner, six measured sections from different bathymetric positions were investigated across a 500-km-transect. Between these sections, discontinuity surfaces, indicative of sea-level fall and subsequent rise, were correlated. In order to asses the underlying causes of sea-level oscillations we compared the amplitudes and frequencies of the Oman events with published amplitudes and frequencies of factors that affect the water volume in the Earth’s oceans, or the shape of oceanic basins. We used the spatial array and field, chemical and petrographic properties of these rocks as a key for unraveling the unknown factors that caused sea-level change. We concluded that sea-level cycles in Oman either reflect unknown processes we do not understand, or changes in continental ice volumes. Thus, we give serious attention to the concept of orbital forcing and glacio-eustasy. By modeling an orbital forcing sea-level curve for the Albian, and combining it with stratigraphic modeling of sedimentation response to sea-level change, a data-model comparison was possible. The match of our data-model comparison is expectedly not perfect but surprisingly good, and this approach is definitely worth pursuing. One of the main data-model differences is that the model exclusively reflects the orbital-forcing signal, whereas the Albian rock record in Oman is expected to represent an array of climatic, tectonic and local sedimentological factors. Nevertheless, the good data-model match supports the hypothesis that glacio-eustasy was the dominant driver of Albian sea-level change in Oman. This outcome might prove to be controversial in that it suggests a re-evaluation of the Cretaceous as a period of global, continuous climatic warmth, without significant ice shields at the poles. This interaction has highlighted the many differences between the stratigrapher’s perspective and modeler’s perspective. There are good and bad points to both perspectives, which we point out and attempt to reconcile here.

scholarly journals Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Mediterranean

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4485-4527
Author(s):  
Ciro Cerrone ◽  
Matteo Vacchi ◽  
Alessandro Fontana ◽  
Alessio Rovere
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Last Interglacial ◽  
Marine Isotopic Stage ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Data Points

Abstract. We describe a database of Last Interglacial (Marine Isotopic Stage 5) sea-level proxies for the western Mediterranean region. The database was compiled reviewing the information reported in 199 published studies and contains 396 sea-level data points (sea-level index points and marine- or terrestrial-limiting points) and 401 associated dated samples. The database follows the standardized WALIS template and is available as Cerrone et al. (2021b, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5341661).

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