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Late Holocene sea level and reef-flat progradation, Phuket, South Thailand

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 Fringing reefs growing in the muddy waters of SE Phuket contain fossil, former reef-front, massive corals that protrude above the intertidal reef flat. The top surfaces of some of these massive fossil corals have been dated and surveyed. The results indicate that these reefs commenced growth 6000 y ago when the sea level (low spring tide) was 1 m above present and that the average rate of reef-front progradation was 1.7 cm per year.

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  1. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK, , , , , , GB

    T. P. Scoffin

  2. Department of Marine Science and Coastal Management, Ridley Building, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NE1 7RU, UK, , , , , , GB

    M. D. A. Le Tissier

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Accepted: 22 May 1998

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Scoffin, T., Tissier, M. Late Holocene sea level and reef-flat progradation, Phuket, South Thailand. Coral Reefs 17, 273–276 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003380050128

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