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SCIENCE
Volume 327, Issue 5970, Pages 1235-1237Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1180557
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- Gary Comer Foundation for Science and Education
- European Science Foundation (EuroMARC)
- CNRS
- College de France
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Reconstructing sea-level changes during the last deglaciation provides a way of understanding the ice dynamics that can perturb large continental ice sheets. The resolution of the few sea-level records covering the critical time interval between 14,000 and 9,000 calendar years before the present is still insufficient to draw conclusions about sea-level changes associated with the Younger Dryas cold event and the meltwater pulse 1B (MWP-1B). We used the uranium-thorium method to date shallow-living corals from three new cores drilled onshore in the Tahiti barrier reef. No significant discontinuity can be detected in the sea-level rise during the MWP-1B period. The new Tahiti sea-level record shows that the sea-level rise slowed down during the Younger Dryas before accelerating again during the Holocene.
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