ESR dating of coral reef terraces on Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) with estimates of younger pleistocene sea level elevations

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 947-957

  Schellmann, Gerhard ^a   Radtke, Ulrich ^b   Scheffers, Anja ^c   Whelan, Franziska ^b   Kelletat, Dieter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortalein unit; Cura ao; ESR ages; Hato unit; Lower Terrace; Middle Terrace; Palaeo sea level; Pleistocene coral reef terraces

Indexed keywords

CORAL RECORD; DATING METHOD; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CURACAO; LESSER ANTILLES; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 2342611712     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/02101.1     Document Type: Article

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