Patterns of Holocene relative sea level change in the North of Britain and Ireland

This paper provides a brief overview of the transfer function approach to sea-level reconstruction. Using the example of two overlapping sediment cores from the North Norfolk coast, UK, the advantages and limitations of the transfer function methodology are examined. While the selected cores are taken from different sites, and display contrasting patterns of sedimentation, the foraminiferal transfer function distils comparable records of relative sea-level change from both sequences. These reconstructions are consistent with existing sea-level index points from the region but produce a more detailed record of relative sea-level change. Transfer functions can extract sea-level information from a wider range of sedimentary sub-environments. This increases the amount of data that can be collected from coastal deposits and improves record resolution. The replicability of the transfer function methodology, coupled with the sequential nature of the data it produces, assists in the compilation and analysis of sea-level records from different sites. This technique has the potential to bridge the gap between short-term (instrumental) and long-term (geological or geophysical) records of sea-level change.

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Tectonic constraints on the late Pleistocene-Holocene relative sea-level change along the north-eastern Adriatic coast (Croatia)

Geomorphology ◽

10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.06.001 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 220 ◽

pp. 93-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Maša Surić ◽

Tvrtko Korbar ◽

Mladen Juračić

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

Sea Level Change ◽

Relative Sea Level ◽

Level Change ◽

The North ◽

North Eastern ◽

Adriatic Coast

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Developing constraints on the relative sea-level curve for the northeast of Ireland from the mid-Holocene to the present day

Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ◽

10.1098/rsta.2006.1741 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 364 (1841) ◽

pp. 857-866 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Julian D Orford ◽

Joanne Murdy ◽

Robert Freel

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Annual Variation ◽

Tide Gauge ◽

Sea Level Change ◽

Tidal Level ◽

Tide Gauge Records ◽

Relative Sea Level ◽

Level Change ◽

The North

Tide-gauge records from the north of Ireland have been digitized to generate annual estimates of both mean-sea-level (MSL) position from Malin Head (1958–1998), and mean tidal level (MTL) from Belfast Harbour (1918–2002). Both sites exhibit substantial annual variation, but show overall long-term shallow rates of falling relative sea-level change (RSLC) that are very similar at −0.2 mm a −1 (±0.37 mm a −1 ) for Belfast and −0.16 mm a −1 (±0.17 mm a −1 ) for Malin. Using these rates as constraints, plus other constraints of inferred RSLC rates from the mid-Holocene, an approximation of the likely profile of RSLC rates for the northeast of Ireland since 6 ka ago is presented.

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