Rapid flooding of the Sunda Shelf: A late-glacial sea-level record

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5468, 2000, Pages 1033-1035

  Hanebuth, Till ^a   Stattegger, Karl ^a   Grootes, Pieter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

LATE GLACIAL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WATER ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034640379     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5468.1033     Document Type: Article

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35. Project 03G01115A was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research. T.H. acknowledges a graduate school stipend funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. We thank the team from the Leibniz Laboratory in Kiel for support and assistance. We gratefully acknowledge the positive comments by C. D. Woodroffe and two anonymous reviewers.