Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Coralgal reef morphology records punctuated sea-level rise during the last deglaciation

  • Pankaj Khanna,
  • André W. Droxler,
  • Jeffrey A. Nittrouer,
  • John W. Tunnell Jr,
  • Thomas C. Shirley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00966-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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A paucity of natural archives can make resolving rapid ocean rises induced by ice-sheet collapses during past periods of warming difficult. Here the authors show that systematic and common coralgal terraces record punctuated sea level rise events over decades to centuries during the last deglaciation.