Evidence for a rapid sea-level rise 7600 yr ago
(2007) In Geology 35(10). p.891-894- Abstract
- Dating the transgression and subsequent regression in marginal basins of the southeastern Swedish Baltic Sea provides a new perspective of global ice-volume changes and the isostatic adjustment of the mantle after the retreat of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet from this area. Superimposed upon a smooth pattern of local sea-level rise, acceleration occurred ca. 7600 calibrated (cal) yr B.P., evidenced as a nearly synchronous flooding in six elevated basins ranging from 3.0 to 7.2 m above present sea level. We ascribe this rapid local sea-level rise of similar to 4.5 m to a sudden increase in ocean mass, most likely caused by the final decay of the Labrador sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The subsequent monotonic fall of local sea level from... (More)
- Dating the transgression and subsequent regression in marginal basins of the southeastern Swedish Baltic Sea provides a new perspective of global ice-volume changes and the isostatic adjustment of the mantle after the retreat of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet from this area. Superimposed upon a smooth pattern of local sea-level rise, acceleration occurred ca. 7600 calibrated (cal) yr B.P., evidenced as a nearly synchronous flooding in six elevated basins ranging from 3.0 to 7.2 m above present sea level. We ascribe this rapid local sea-level rise of similar to 4.5 m to a sudden increase in ocean mass, most likely caused by the final decay of the Labrador sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The subsequent monotonic fall of local sea level from ca. 6500 cal yr B.P. to the present is mainly an expression of the slow isostatic adjustment of the mantle. (Less)
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- Yu, Shiyong LU ; Berglund, Björn LU ; Sandgren, Per LU and Lambeck, Kurt
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- 2007
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- rebound, crustal, lake isolation, rapid sea-level rise, holocene, Baltic sea, Laurentide Ice Sheet decay
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- Geology
- volume
- 35
- issue
- 10
- pages
- 891 - 894
- publisher
- Geological Society of America
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- wos:000250102800007
- scopus:35449007531
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- 0091-7613
- DOI
- 10.1130/G23859A.1
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- English
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abstract = {{Dating the transgression and subsequent regression in marginal basins of the southeastern Swedish Baltic Sea provides a new perspective of global ice-volume changes and the isostatic adjustment of the mantle after the retreat of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet from this area. Superimposed upon a smooth pattern of local sea-level rise, acceleration occurred ca. 7600 calibrated (cal) yr B.P., evidenced as a nearly synchronous flooding in six elevated basins ranging from 3.0 to 7.2 m above present sea level. We ascribe this rapid local sea-level rise of similar to 4.5 m to a sudden increase in ocean mass, most likely caused by the final decay of the Labrador sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The subsequent monotonic fall of local sea level from ca. 6500 cal yr B.P. to the present is mainly an expression of the slow isostatic adjustment of the mantle.}},
author = {{Yu, Shiyong and Berglund, Björn and Sandgren, Per and Lambeck, Kurt}},
issn = {{0091-7613}},
keywords = {{rebound; crustal; lake isolation; rapid sea-level rise; holocene; Baltic sea; Laurentide Ice Sheet decay}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{10}},
pages = {{891--894}},
publisher = {{Geological Society of America}},
series = {{Geology}},
title = {{Evidence for a rapid sea-level rise 7600 yr ago}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G23859A.1}},
doi = {{10.1130/G23859A.1}},
volume = {{35}},
year = {{2007}},
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