Half-metre sea-level fluctuations on centennial timescales from mid-Holocene corals of Southeast Asia

Aron J. Meltzner; Adam D. Switzer; Benjamin P. Horton; Erica Ashe; Qiang Qiu; David F. Hill; Sarah L. Bradley; Robert E. Kopp; Emma M. Hill; Jȩdrzej M. Majewski; Danny H. Natawidjaja; Bambang W. Suwargadi

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Half-metre sea-level fluctuations on centennial timescales from mid-Holocene corals of Southeast Asia

Aron J. Meltzner^*
, Adam D. Switzer
, Benjamin P. Horton
, Erica Ashe
, Qiang Qiu
, David F. Hill
, Sarah L. Bradley
, Robert E. Kopp
, Emma M. Hill
, Jȩdrzej M. Majewski
, Danny H. Natawidjaja
, Bambang W. Suwargadi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Sea-level rise is a global problem, yet to forecast future changes, we must understand how and why relative sea level (RSL) varied in the past, on local to global scales. In East and Southeast Asia, details of Holocene RSL are poorly understood. Here we present two independent high-resolution RSL proxy records from Belitung Island on the Sunda Shelf. These records capture spatial variations in glacial isostatic adjustment and paleotidal range, yet both reveal a RSL history between 6850 and 6500 cal years BP that includes two 0.6 m fluctuations, with rates of RSL change reaching 13±4 mm per year (2σ). Observations along the south coast of China, although of a lower resolution, reveal fluctuations similar in amplitude and timing to those on the Sunda Shelf. The consistency of the Southeast Asian records, from sites 2,600 km apart, suggests that the records reflect regional changes in RSL that are unprecedented in modern times. © The Author(s) 2017.

Original language	English
Article number	14387
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14387
Publication status	Published - 10 Feb 2017
Externally published	Yes

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This research was also supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore under its Singapore NRF Fellowship scheme (Awards NRF-RF2010-04 and NRF-NRFF2010-064), and by Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Complexity Tier 1 Project RGC4/14. R.E.K., E.A. and B.P.H. were supported by NSF (ARC-1203415 and OCE-1458904). S.L.B. acknowledges support from the Netherlands Earth System Science Centre (NESSC), which is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW).

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