Dating and Associated Methodological Problems in the Study of Quaternary Sea-level Changes

  • Donald G. Sutherland
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Abstract

In the last forty years there has been a remarkable growth in the number of techniques available for dating Quaternary sea-level change. Radiometric methods such as radiocarbon and uranium series dating, biochemical methods such as amino acid diagenesis and the application of palaeomagnetism when allied to the more traditional forms of relative dating such as pollen analysis have permitted the determination of complex histories of sea level throughout the Quaternary. The degree of resolution possible in studies of former sea level is primarily a function of the degree of preservation and accessibility of the field evidence. It is therefore inevitable that most recent work on sea-level change has concentrated on the period following the last glacial maximum (at ~18,000 BP) when widespread sequences of coastal sediments were deposited. It is also during this period that the most accurate and widely applicable of the ‘absolute’ dating methods, radiocarbon (14C), can be used with most confidence.

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Coral Reef Great Barrier Reef Radiocarbon Date Estuarine Sediment Glow Curve 
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