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author Einsele, Gerhard
Herm, D
Schwarz, Hans Joachim
author_facet Einsele, Gerhard
Herm, D
Schwarz, Hans Joachim
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents In an area regarded to be very favourable for the study of Holocene sea level changes one or several eustatic (?) oscillations of sea have been found using sedimentological and ecological methods. After a maximum of +3 m during the Nouakchottian stage (= Middle Flandrian or Late Atlantic) about 5500 YBP a drop of sea to -3.5 ± 0.5 m about 4100 YBP is testified by stromatolitic algae indicating the former sea level within the tidal zone with high accuracy. This evidence is supported by the observation of post-Nouakchottian regressive and transgressive geologic sequences, by buried beach deposits and flooded hardgrounds, post-Nouakchottian marine terraces of different height and age, the cutting off of one large and several small bays from the open sea etc. Possibly, one or two smaller oscillations followed between 4000 and 1500 years B. P. The radiocarbon age of the marine shells dated may be partly somewhat too old or too young.
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spellingShingle Age determination of Holozene marine deposites from the western Mauritania (Table 1)
Einsele, Gerhard
Herm, D
Schwarz, Hans Joachim
Africa, Mauritania; Age, 14C conventional; Age, comment; Age, dated; Age, dated, standard deviation; Age, dated material; Comment; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Event label; Isotope ratio mass spectrometry; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; M25; M25_L10; M25_L11; M25_L12; M25_L19; M25_L2; M25_L24; M25_L26; M25_L29; M25_L3; M25_L39; M25_L46; M25_L7; Meteor (1964); PROFILE; Profile sampling; Sample code/label; δ13C; δ18O
In an area regarded to be very favourable for the study of Holocene sea level changes one or several eustatic (?) oscillations of sea have been found using sedimentological and ecological methods. After a maximum of +3 m during the Nouakchottian stage (= Middle Flandrian or Late Atlantic) about 5500 YBP a drop of sea to -3.5 ± 0.5 m about 4100 YBP is testified by stromatolitic algae indicating the former sea level within the tidal zone with high accuracy. This evidence is supported by the observation of post-Nouakchottian regressive and transgressive geologic sequences, by buried beach deposits and flooded hardgrounds, post-Nouakchottian marine terraces of different height and age, the cutting off of one large and several small bays from the open sea etc. Possibly, one or two smaller oscillations followed between 4000 and 1500 years B. P. The radiocarbon age of the marine shells dated may be partly somewhat too old or too young.
title Age determination of Holozene marine deposites from the western Mauritania (Table 1)
topic Africa, Mauritania; Age, 14C conventional; Age, comment; Age, dated; Age, dated, standard deviation; Age, dated material; Comment; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Event label; Isotope ratio mass spectrometry; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; M25; M25_L10; M25_L11; M25_L12; M25_L19; M25_L2; M25_L24; M25_L26; M25_L29; M25_L3; M25_L39; M25_L46; M25_L7; Meteor (1964); PROFILE; Profile sampling; Sample code/label; δ13C; δ18O
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.509896