What's up with Qatar? How eustasy and neotectonics influenced the late Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level history of Qatar

A side-scan sonar survey along the western bank of the Laurentian Channel and on the western Grand Banks revealed the occurrence of iceberg furrows that are probably of Late Pleistocene age. The occurrence of furrows in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is significant in that it helps to date iceberg furrows along the northeast Newfoundland–Labrador margin of the northwest Atlantic, provides data on the history of deglaciation of the offshore area of the Atlantic Provinces, provides a means of evaluating sea level curves, and provides additional evidence for the broad regional extent of the Late Pleistocene shoreline at 115 to 120 m.

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Coastal GIA processes revealed by the early to middle Holocene sea-level history of east China

Quaternary Science Reviews ◽

10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106249 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 233 ◽

pp. 106249 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Haixian Xiong ◽

Yongqiang Zong ◽

Tanghua Li ◽

Tengwen Long ◽

Guangqing Huang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

East China ◽

Middle Holocene ◽

History Of ◽

Holocene Sea Level

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Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sea Level Curve for the East Coast of India

Journal of the Geological Society of India ◽

10.1007/s12594-019-1211-z ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 93 (5) ◽

pp. 507-514 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

V. J. Loveson ◽

R. Nigam

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

East Coast ◽

Level Curve ◽

East Coast Of India ◽

Holocene Sea Level

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Variations of fluvial patterns and infilling history of a paleoincised valley system during Late Pleistocene to Holocene, Offshore Pahang River, Peninsular Malaysia

Interpretation ◽

10.1190/int-2016-0055.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. T39-T50

Author(s):

Md Mostafizur Rahman ◽

Edlic Sathiamurthy ◽

Guangfa Zhong ◽

Jianghua Geng ◽

Zhifei Liu

Keyword(s):

Sea Level ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

Peninsular Malaysia ◽

Glacial Cycle ◽

Shallow Marine ◽

3D Data ◽

Data Volume ◽

History Of ◽

Late Pleistocene To Holocene ◽

Cover Thickness

High-resolution 2D acoustic profiles, combined with time slices from a 3D data volume, were used to investigate the paleoincised valleys offshore of the present-day Pahang River, South China Sea. Paleovalleys were formed during the regressive phase of the last glacial cycle. They were submerged and possibly filled during valley formation and postglacial marine transgression. Interpretation of acoustic profiles illustrates that the valleys were incised and infilled during the regression and low stand followed by subsequent deglacial sea-level rise. They were overlain by a transgressive ravinement surface suggesting transitional deposits between fluvial-dominated filling and shallow-marine deposition. This ravinement surface is overlain by Holocene shallow marine deposits. A low-sinuosity low-stand valley system changed to a high-sinuosity meander belt and eventually evolved into a deltaic distributary channel system before the complete submergence of the area. The average Late Pleistocene surface lies between 53 and 64 m below present-day mean sea level in the study area with approximately 16–50 m of valley incision. The Holocene shallow marine cover thickness varies from 5 to 10 m.

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Holocene sea-level history of the Canadian Beaufort shelf

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e93-009 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 103-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Philip R. Hill ◽

Arnaud Héquette ◽

Marie-Hélène Ruz

Keyword(s):

Sea Level Rise ◽

Sea Level ◽

Coastal Zone ◽

Marine Sediments ◽

Tidal Marsh ◽

Relative Sea Level ◽

The Holocene ◽

Single Piece ◽

History Of ◽

Holocene Sea Level

New radiocarbon ages pertaining to the Holocene sea-level history of the Canadian Beaufort shelf are presented. The ages were obtained on samples of freshwater and tidal-marsh peat beds from offshore boreholes and shallow cores in the coastal zone and on molluscs and a single piece of wood deposited in foraminifera-bearing marine sediments. Although none of the samples record directly the position of relative sea level, the suite of ages constrains the regional curve sufficiently to suggest a faster rate of mid Holocene sea level rise (7–14 mm/a) than previously thought. The rate of relative rise slowed markedly in the last 3000 years, approaching the present at a maximum probable rate of 2.5 mm/a.

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