Zhong Guangfa et al. (2003): Late Cenozoic history of sea level changes documented from high-resolution seismic data on the northern Sunda Shelf, South China Sea

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2011-001322
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Creator:
Zhong Guangfa
Tongji University, Key Laboratory of Marine Geology of China Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China
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Geng Jianhua
Hamburg University, Germany
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Zhou Zuyi
Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China
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Wong, How Kin
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Wang Liaoliang
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Identification:
Late Cenozoic history of sea level changes documented from high-resolution seismic data on the northern Sunda Shelf, South China Sea
2003
In: Teh, Guan Hoe (editor), Ambun, Alex Unya (editor), Abdul Kadir, Askury (editor), Tham Fatt Ng (editor), Annual geological conference 2003
Geological Society of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
46
439-442
In the paper, a quantitative model is presented to estimate the magnitudes of eustatic sea level rises and falls by seismic data in an effort to consider the variables such as erosion, subsidence, compaction, and paleo-water depth, etc. As an application of the model, a eustatic curve of sea level changes since Pliocene is deduced from high-resolution air gun seismic lines acquired by German Sonne 115 Cruise in 1997. On the curve, about 36 cycles of sea level changes can be recognized with periods ranging from 0.08 Ma to 0.29 Ma, which are fallen into 4th order of sea level cycles. The curve is compared with the reprocessed deep-sea stable oxygen isotope data from benthic foraminifera on ODP sites 1,148 and 846 by resampling and filtering. Both of them matched well, which suggests that the 4th order of eustatic sea level changes during the last 5.33 Ma was probably controlled by changes in the sizes of the ice caps.
English
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:-2.3000
West:106.0000East: 116.0000
South:-8.0000

Quaternary geology; Applied geophysics; Cenozoic; deglaciation; eustacy; Foraminifera; geophysical methods; glacial geology; high-resolution methods; ice caps; Indonesian Seas; Invertebrata; isotope ratios; isotopes; Java Sea; microfossils; Neogene; O-18/O-16; Ocean Drilling Program; oxygen; Pacific Ocean; paleoclimatology; paleoenvironment; Pliocene; Protista; sea-level changes; seismic methods; seismic stratigraphy; South Pacific; Southwest Pacific; stable isotopes; Sunda Shelf; Tertiary; upper Cenozoic; West Pacific;

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