Constraining Holocene sea levels using U-Th ages of phreatic overgrowths on speleothems from coastal caves in Mallorca (Western Mediterranean)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 782-790

  Tuccimei, Paola ^a   Soligo, Michele ^a   Ginés, Joaquin ^b   Ginés, Angel ^b   Fornós, Joan ^b   Kramers, Jan ^c   Villa, Igor Maria ^c,d  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Holocene; Mallorca; Sea level indicators; Speleothem; U series dating

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; CARBONATE FORMATIONS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; HIGH-PRECISION; HOLOCENE SEA LEVEL; HOLOCENES; KARSTIC; MALLORCA; MC-ICP-MS; PHREATIC; U-SERIES DATING; WATER TABLES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

AQUIFERS; CARBONATE MINERALS; CAVES; GAGES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEAWATER;

SEA LEVEL;

ARAGONITE; CALCITE; CAVE DEPOSIT; COASTAL ZONE; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 77953171721     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1955     Document Type: Article

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