Evidence for Holocene sea level change at Verlorenvlei, Western Cape, South Africa

1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Baxter ◽  
Michael E. Meadows
2021 ◽  
Vol 441 ◽  
pp. 106608
Author(s):  
N.N. Dladla ◽  
A.N. Green ◽  
J.A.G. Cooper ◽  
P. Mehlhorn ◽  
T. Haberzettl

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (23) ◽  
pp. 8740-8746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Chen ◽  
Sarah Friedman ◽  
Charles G. Gertler ◽  
James Looney ◽  
Nizhoni O’Connell ◽  
...  

Abstract Peak eustatic sea level (ESL), or minimum ice volume, during the protracted marine isotope stage 11 (MIS11) interglacial at ~420 ka remains a matter of contention. A recent study of high-stand markers of MIS11 age from the tectonically stable southern coast of South Africa estimated a peak ESL of 13 m. The present study refines this estimate by taking into account both the uncertainty in the correction for glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) and the geographic variability of sea level change following polar ice sheet collapse. In regard to the latter, the authors demonstrate, using gravitationally self-consistent numerical predictions of postglacial sea level change, that rapid melting from any of the three major polar ice sheets (West Antarctic, Greenland, or East Antarctic) will lead to a local sea level rise in southern South Africa that is 15%–20% higher than the eustatic sea level rise associated with the ice sheet collapse. Taking this amplification and a range of possible GIA corrections into account and assuming that the tectonic correction applied in the earlier study is correct, the authors revise downward the estimate of peak ESL during MIS11 to 8–11.5 m.


2004 ◽  
Vol 164 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 237-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuaki Hori ◽  
Susumu Tanabe ◽  
Yoshiki Saito ◽  
Shigeko Haruyama ◽  
Viet Nguyen ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1453-1465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia F Daly ◽  
Daniel F Belknap ◽  
Joseph T Kelley ◽  
Trevor Bell

Differential sea-level change in formerly glaciated areas is predicted owing to variability in extent and timing of glacial coverage. Newfoundland is situated close to the margin of the former Laurentide ice sheet, and the orientation of the shoreline affords the opportunity to investigate variable rates and magnitudes of sea-level change. Analysis of salt-marsh records at four sites around the island yields late Holocene sea-level trends. These trends indicate differential sea-level change in recent millennia. A north–south geographic trend reflects submergence in the south, very slow sea-level rise in the northeast, and a recent transition from falling to rising sea-level at the base of the Northern Peninsula. This variability is best explained as a continued isostatic response to deglaciation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 95 (sp1) ◽  
pp. 659
Author(s):  
Mateusz C. Strzelecki ◽  
Filip Duszyński ◽  
Sebastian Tyszkowski ◽  
Łukasz Zbucki ◽  
Marek Kasprzak

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