Growth patterns of the last ice age coral terraces at Huon Peninsula

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Authors

Esat, Tezer

Yokoyama, Yusuke

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

At Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, prolific coral growth during the last-glacial was episodic and in response to a series of sea-level rises. The resultant step-like coral terraces are currently situated from 20 m up to 140 m above sea-level due to co

Keywords

Keywords: coral; coral reef; glacioeustacy; growth rate; Heinrich event; ice sheet; Last Glacial; paleoclimate; Pleistocene; radiocarbon dating; sea level change; uranium series dating; Huon Peninsula; Melanesia; Pacific islands; Pacific Ocean; Papua New Guinea; An coral terraces; Heinrich events; Huon Peninsula; radiocarbon dating; sea-level change; U-series dating

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/17587

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Global and Planetary Change

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.06.020

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2037-12-31

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