Comment on "Corrected western Atlantic sea-level curve for the last 11,000 years based on calibrated 14C dates from Acropora palmata framework and intertidal mangrove peat" by Toscano and Macintyre. Coral Reefs 22:257-270 (2003), and their response in Coral Reefs 24:187-190 (2005)

Coral Reefs

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 273-279

  Gischler, Eberhard ^a   Toscano, Marguerite A ^b   Macintyre, Ian G ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Belize; Holocene; Reef; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA PALMATA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33646531220     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-006-0101-1     Document Type: Note

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