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Bayesian reconstruction of sea level and hydroclimates from coastal landform inversion: application to Santa Cruz (US) and Gulf of Corinth
Gino de Gelder
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ISTerre, IRD, CNRS, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, 38400, France
Res. Group of Paleoclimate & Paleoenvironment, Res. Centr. for Climate and Atmosphere, Res. Org. of Earth Sciences and Maritime, National Research and Innovation Agency, Bandung, 40135, Indonesia
ENS de Lyon, CNRS, LGL-TPE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69100, France
Navid Hedjazian
ENS de Lyon, CNRS, LGL-TPE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69100, France
Laurent Husson
ISTerre, IRD, CNRS, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, 38400, France
Thomas Bodin
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) – CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Anne-Morwenn Pastier
GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
Yannick Boucharat
ISTerre, IRD, CNRS, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, 38400, France
Kevin Pedoja
Laboratoire Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière, Université de Caen Normandie, Caen, 14000, France
Tubagus Solihuddin
Res. Group of Paleoclimate & Paleoenvironment, Res. Centr. for Climate and Atmosphere, Res. Org. of Earth Sciences and Maritime, National Research and Innovation Agency, Bandung, 40135, Indonesia
Sri Yudawati Cahyarini
Res. Group of Paleoclimate & Paleoenvironment, Res. Centr. for Climate and Atmosphere, Res. Org. of Earth Sciences and Maritime, National Research and Innovation Agency, Bandung, 40135, Indonesia
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Short summary
Marine terrace sequences – staircase-shaped coastal landforms – record sea-level changes, vertical motions, and erosional processes that are difficult to untangle. To achieve this, we developed a numerical inversion approach: using the observed landscape as input, we constrained the ensemble of parameter ranges that could have created this landscape. We applied the model to marine terrace sequences in Santa Cruz (US) and Corinth (Greece) to reveal past sea or lake levels, uplift rates, and hydroclimates.
Marine terrace sequences – staircase-shaped coastal landforms – record sea-level changes,...
