DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.021
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85041473327
论文题名: Relative sea level in the Western Mediterranean basin: A regional test of the ICE-7G_NA (VM7) model and a constraint on late Holocene Antarctic deglaciation
作者: Roy K. ; Peltier W.R.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 183 起始页码: 76
结束页码: 87
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Antarctica
; Coastal geomorphology
; Glacial isostatic adjustment
; Glaciation
; Holocene
; Mediterranean sea
; Pacific Ocean
; Sea level changes
; Western Europe
Scopus关键词: Biology
; Gages
; Glacial geology
; Glaciers
; Ice
; Melting
; Oceanography
; Tectonics
; Antarctica
; Glacial Isostatic Adjustments
; Glaciation
; Holocenes
; Mediterranean sea
; Pacific ocean
; Sealevel change
; Western Europe
; Sea level
; coastal zone
; deglaciation
; geomorphology
; Holocene
; ice cover
; last glaciation
; reconstruction
; Roman era
; sea level change
; Antarctic Ice Sheet
; Antarctica
; Antarctica
; Mediterranean Region
; Mediterranean Sea
; Mediterranean Sea (West)
; North America
; Northern Europe
; Pacific Ocean
; Pacific Ocean (Equatorial)
; Western Europe
英文摘要: The Mediterranean Basin is a region of special interest in the study of past and present relative sea level evolution, given its location south of the ice sheets that covered large fractions of Northern Europe during the last glaciation, the large number of biological, geological and archaeological sea level indicators that have been retrieved from its coastal regions, as well as its high density of modern coastal infrastructure. Models of the Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) process provide reconstructions of past relative sea level evolution, and can be tested for validity against past sea level indicators from the region. It is demonstrated herein that the latest ICE-7G_NA (VM7) model of the GIA process, the North American component of which was refined using a full suite of geophysical observables, is able to reconcile the vast majority of uniformly analyzed relative sea level constraints available for the Western part of the Mediterranean basin, a region to which it was not tuned. We also revisit herein the previously published interpretations of relative sea level information obtained from Roman-era coastal Mediterranean “fish tanks”, analyze the far-field influence of the rate of late Holocene Antarctic ice sheet melting history on the exceptionally detailed relative sea level history available from southern Tunisia, and extend the analysis to complementary constraints on the history of Antarctic ice-sheet melting available from islands in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The analyses reported herein provide strong support for the global “exportability” of the ICE-7G_NA (VM7) model, a result that speaks directly to the ability of spherically symmetric models of the internal viscoelastic structure to explain globally distributed observations, while also identifying isolated regions of remaining misfit which will benefit from further study. © 2017 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112290
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作者单位: Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue639798, Singapore; Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Roy K.,Peltier W.R.. Relative sea level in the Western Mediterranean basin: A regional test of the ICE-7G_NA (VM7) model and a constraint on late Holocene Antarctic deglaciation[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,183