Submerged late pleistocene reefs on the tectonically-stable S.E. Florida margin: High-precision geochronology, stratigraphy, resolution of substage 5a sea-level elevation, and orbital forcing

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 753-767

  Toscano, Marguerite A ^a   Lundberg, Joyce ^b  

^a Carleton University ^*  (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; REEF; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033135912     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00077-8     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Bard, E., Hamelin, B., & Fairbanks, R. G. (1990). U-th ages obtained by mass spectrometry in corals from Barbados: Sea level during the past 130,000 years. Nature, 346, 456-458.
2. Berger, A., & Loutre, M. F. (1991). Insolation values for climate of the last 10 million years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 10, 297-317.
3. Blanchon, P., & Shaw. J. (1995). Reef drowning during the last deglaciation: Evidence for catastrophic sea-level rise and ice sheet collapse. Geology, 23, 4-8.
4. Bloom, A. L. (1967). Pleistocene shorelines: A new test of isostacy. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 78, 1477-1494.
5. 234U dates from the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea. Quaternary Research, 4, 185-205.
6. Broecker, W. S., & Thurber, D. L. (1965). Uranium-series dating of corals and oolites from Bahaman and Florida key limestones. Science, 149, 58-60.
7. Carew, J. L., & Mylroie, J. E. (1994). Comment on: Hearty, P. J. and Kindler, P., 1993, new perspectives on Bahamian geology: San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Journal of Coastal Research, 10, 1087-1094.
8. Carew, J. L., & Mylroie, J. E. (1995a). Fossil reefs and flank margin caves: Indicators of late Quaternary sea-level and tectonic stability in the Bahamas. Quaternary Science Reviews, 14, 145-153.
9. Carew, J. L., & Mylroie, J. E. (1995b). Rejoinder to Hearty, P. J. and Kindler, P. (1994), straw men, glass houses, apples and oranges: A response to Carew and Mylroie's comment on Hearty and Kindler (1993). Journal of Coastal Research, 11, 256-260.
10. Chappell, J. (1974). Geology of coral terraces, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea: A study of Quaternary tectonic movements and sea-level changes. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 85, 553-570.
11. 230Th data from fossil coral reefs in the Bahamas. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 103, 82-97.
12. Crowley, T. J., & Kim, K.-Y.(1994). Milankovitch forcing of the last interglacial sea level. Science, 265, 1566-1567.
13. Davis, J. L., & Mitrovica, J. X. (1996). Glacial isostatic adjustment and the anomalous tide gauge record of eastern North America. Nature, 379, 331-333.
14. Dodge, R. E., Fairbanks, R. G., Benninger, L. K., & Maurrasse, F. (1983). Pleistocene sea levels from raised coral reefs of Haiti. Science, 219, 1423-1425.
15. Edwards, R. L., Chen, J. H., Ku, T.-L., & Wasserburg, G. J. (1987). Precise timing of the last interglacial period from mass spectrometric determination of Thorium-230 in corals. Science, 236, 1547-1553.
16. Enos, P. (1977). Holocene sediment accumulations of the south Florida shelf margin: In P. Enos &R. D. Perkins, (Eds). Quaternary Sedimentation in South Florida, Geological Society of America Memoir 147, p. 1-130.
17. Fairbanks, R. G. (1989). A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea-level record: Influence of glacial melting rates on the younger dryas event and deep ocean circulation. Nature, 342, 637-642.
18. Gallup, C. D., Edwards, R. L., & Johnson, R. G. (1994). The timing of high sea levels over the past 200,000 years. Science, 263, 796-800.
19. Hallock, P. (1988). The role of nutrient availability in bioerosion: Consequences to carbonate buildups. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 63, 275-291.
20. Harmon, R. S., Schwarcz, H. P., & Ford, D. C. (1978). Late Pleistocene sea-level history of Bermuda. Quaternary Research, 9, 205-218.
21. Harmon, R. S., Mitterer, R. M., Kriausakul, N., Land, L. S., Schwarcz, H. P., Garrett, P., Larson, G. J., Vacher, H. L., & Rowe, M. (1983). U-series and amino-acid racemization geochronology of Bermuda: Implications for eustatic sea-level fluctuation over the past 250,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 44, 41-70.
22. Hearty, P. J., & Kindler, P. (1993). New perspectives on Bahamian geology: San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Journal of Coastal Research, 9, 577-594.
23. Hearty, P. J., & Kindler, P. (1994). Straw men, glass houses, apples and oranges: A response to Carew and Mylroie's comment on Hearty and Kindler (1993). Journal of Coastal Research, 10.
24. Hollin, J. T., & Hearty, P. J. (1990). South Carolina interglacial sites and stage 5 sea levels. Quaternary Research, 33, 1-17.
25. Hubbard, D. K. (1994). SCARID Drilling System Manual. National Undersea Research Program, Vero Beach, Florida: Caribbean Marine Research Center.
26. 18O record. In: A. L. Berger et al. (Eds.), Milankovitch and Climate, (Part 1. pp. 269-305).
27. Jaap, W. C. (1984). The Ecology of the South Florida Coral Reefs: A Community Profile. FWS/OBS-82/08, MMS 84-0038, 138 pp.
28. Ku, T.-L., Ivanovich, M., & Luo, S. (1990). U-series dating of last interglacial high sea stands: Barbados revisited. Quaternary Research, 33, 129-147.
29. Li, W.-X., Lundberg, J., Dickin, A. P., Ford, D. C., Schwarcz, H. P., McNutt, R., & Williams, D. (1989). High-precision mass-spectrometric uranium series dating of cave deposits and implications for paleoclimatic studies. Nature, 339, 534-536.
30. Lidz, B. H., Hine, A. C., Shinn, E. A., & Kindinger, J. L. (1991). Multiple outer reef tracts along the south Florida bank margin: Outlier reefs, a new windward margin model. Geology, 19, 115-118.
31. Lighty, R. G., Macintyre, I. G., & Stuckenrath, R. (1982). Acropora palmata reef framework: A reliable indicator of sea-level in the western Atlantic for the past 10,000 years. Coral Reefs, 1, 125-130.
32. Ludwig, K. R., Muhs, D. R., Simmons, K. R., Halley, R. B., & Shinn, E. A. (1996). Sea level records at 80,000 YR BP from tectomcally-stable platforms: The Florida keys and Bermuda. Geology, 24, 21-24.
33. Lundberg, J., & Ford, D. C.(1994). Late Pleistocene sea-level change in the Bahamas from mass spectrometric u-series dating of submerged speleothem. Quaternary Science Reviews, 13, 1-14.
34. Mann, P., Taylor, F. W., Edwards, R. L., & Ku, T. -L. (1995). Actively evolving microplate formation by oblique collision and motion along strike-slip faults: An example from the northeastern Caribbean plate margin. Tectonophysics, 246, 1-69.
35. Martinson, D. G., Pisias, N. G., Hays, J. D., Imbrie, J., Moore, T. C., & Shackleton, N. J. (1987). Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: Development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronology. Quaternary Research, 27, 1-29.
36. Matthews, R. K. (1973). Relative elevation of late Pleistocene high sea-level stands: Barbados uplift rates and their implications. Quaternary Research, 3, 147-153.
37. Mesolella, K. J., Matthews, R. K., Broecker, W. S., & Thurber, D. L. (1969). The astronomical theory of climate change: Barbados data. Journal of Geology, 77, 250-274.
38. Mirecki, J. E., Carew, J. L., & Mylroie, J. E. (1993). Precision of amino acid enantiomeric data from fossiliferous late Quaternary units, San Salvador Island, the Bahamas. In: B. White, (Ed.), Proceedings, 6th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, (pp. 95-101). San Salvador, Bahamian Field Station.
39. Mullins, H. T., & Neumann, A. C. (1979). Geology of the Miami Terrace and its paleogeographic implications. Marine Geology, 30, 205-232.
40. Mylroie, J. E., & Carew, J. L. (1988). Solution conduits as indicators of late Quaternary sea-level position. Quaternary Science Reviews, 7, 55-64.
41. Neumann, A. C., & Moore, W. S. (1975). Sea level events and Pleistocene coral ages in the Northern Bahamas. Quaternary Research, 5, 215-224.
42. Neumann, A. C., & Hearty, P. J. (1996). Rapid sea-level changes at the close of the last interglacial (substage 5e) recorded in Bahamian island geology. Geology, 24, 775-778.
43. 234 age of Pleistocene corals and oolites of Florida. Journal of Geophysical Research, 70, 1843-1847.
44. Perkins, R. D. (1977). Depositional framework of pleistocene rocks in south Florida. In: P. Enos, & R. D. Perkins, (Eds.). Quaternary Sedimentation in South Florida, Geological Society of America Memoir (Vol 147, pp. 131-198).
45. Richards, D. A., Smart. P. L., & Edwards, R. L. (1994). Maximum sea levels for the last interglacial period from u-series ages of submerged speleothems. Nature, 367, 357-360.
46. Shinn, E. A. (1980). Geologic history of grecian rocks, key largo coral reef marine sanctuary. Bulletin of Marine Science, 30, 646-656.
47. Shinn, E. A., Hudson, J. H., Halley, R. B., & Lidz, B. H. (1977). Topographic control and accumulation rate of some Holocene coral reefs: South Florida and Dry Tortugas. Proceedings, 3rd International Coral Reef Symposium, (pp. 2-7), Miami.
48. Shinn, E. A., Lidz, B. H., Halley, R. B., Hudson, J. H., & Kindinger, J. L. (1989). Reefs of Florida and the Dry Tortugas. 28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook (Vol. T176), Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.
49. Smart, P. L., & Richards, D. A. (1992). Age estimates for the late Quaternary high sea stands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 11, 687-696.
50. Stanley, S. M. (1966). Paleoecology and diagenesis of key Largo Limestone, Florida. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 50, 1927-1947.
51. Toscano, M. A. (1992). Record of oxygen isotope stage 5 on the Maryland inner shelf and Atlantic Coastal Plain - A post-transgressive highstand regime. In: C. H. Fletcher, III, & J. F. Wehmiller, (Eds.), Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems. SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication, 48, pp. 89-100.
52. Toscano, M. A. (1996).Late Quaternary Stratigraphy, Sea-Level History and Paleoclimatology of the Southeast Florida Outer Continental Shelf. Ph.D. dissertation, (280 pp). University of South Florida, Department of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, Florida.
53. Toscano, M. A., & York, L. L. (1992). Quaternary stratigraphy and sea level history of the U. S. Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain. Quaternary Science Reviews, 11, 301-328.
54. Toscano, M. A., & Lundberg, J. (1997). Late stage 5 coral reefs, southeast Florida shelf: Sea level, high precision dating and assessment of forcing mechanisms. In: J. L. Carew, (Ed.), Proceedings 8th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and other Carbonate Regions, (pp. 176-189). San Salvador, Bahamas: Bahamian Field Station.
55. Toscano, M.A., & Lundberg, J. (1998). Early Holocene sea-level record from submerged fossil reefs on the southeast Florida margin. Geology, 26, 255-258.
56. Vacher, H. L., & Hearty, P. J. (1989). History of stage 5 sea level in Bermuda: Review with new evidence of a brief rise to present sea-level during substage 5a. Quaternary Science Reviews, 8, 158-168.
57. Walker, N. D., Roberts, H. H., Rouse, L. J. Jr., & Huh, O. K. (1982). Thermal history of reef-associated environments during a record cold-air outbreak. Coral Reefs, 1, 83-87.
58. Wehmiller, J. F. (1986). Amino-acid racemization geochronology. In: A. J. Hurford, E. Jager & J. A. M. Ten Cate (Eds.), Dating Young Sediments: Proceedings of the Workshop, Beijing, People's Republic of China, September 1985, (pp. 139-158). CCOP Technical Secretariat, Bangkok, Thailand.
59. Wehmiller, J. F., York, L. L., Belknap, D. F., & Snyder, S. W. (1992). Theoretical correlations and lateral discontinuities in the Quaternary aminostratigraphic record of the U. S. Atlantic Coastal Plain. Quaternary Research, 38, 275-291.
60. Wehmiller, J. F. (1997). US Atlantic Coastal Plain late Quaternary geochronology: TIMS U-series coral dates continue to indicate 80 kyr sea-level at or above present. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abtracts with Program.