Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Ice volume and climate changes from a 6000 year sea-level record in French Polynesia

  • N. Hallmann,
  • G. Camoin,
  • A. Eisenhauer,
  • A. Botella,
  • G. A. Milne,
  • C. Vella,
  • E. Samankassou,
  • V. Pothin,
  • P. Dussouillez,
  • J. Fleury,
  • J. Fietzke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02695-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Past sea-level records serve as an important baseline of natural variability in sea level and global ice volume prior to the Anthropocene. Here, the authors reconstruct relative sea-level changes over the last 6000 years based on coral microatolls, which are the most accurate low-tide recorders.