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Refining patterns of melt with forward stratigraphic models of stable Pleistocene coastlines
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Paolo Stocchi
NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of
Estuarine and Delta Systems (EDS), Utrecht University, Den Burg, Texel, the Netherlands
Alessio Rovere
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
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Preservation bias often hampers the extraction of sea level changes from the stratigraphic record. In this contribution, we use a forward stratigraphic model to build three synthetic subtropical fringing reefs for a site in southwestern Madagascar (Indian Ocean). Each of the three synthetic reefs represents a different ice sheet melt scenario for the Pleistocene. We then evaluate each resultant reef sequence against the observed stratigraphic record.
Preservation bias often hampers the extraction of sea level changes from the stratigraphic...
