Holocene sea-level change in the Severn Estuary, southwest England: a diatom-based sea-level transfer function for macrotidal settings

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العنوان: Holocene sea-level change in the Severn Estuary, southwest England: a diatom-based sea-level transfer function for macrotidal settings
المؤلفون: Wendy Woodland, Chris Spencer, Tom Hill, Susan B. Marriott
المصدر: The Holocene. 17:639-648
بيانات النشر: SAGE Publications, 2007.
سنة النشر: 2007
مصطلحات موضوعية: 010506 paleontology, Archeology, Global and Planetary Change, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Tidal range, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Ecology, biology, Paleontology, Estuary, biology.organism_classification, 01 natural sciences, Oceanography, Altitude, Diatom, Quaternary, Transect, Geology, Holocene, Sea level, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
الوصف: The recent growth in the use of microfossil-based transfer functions in late-Quaternary sea-level reconstructions reflects their potential to accurately quantify palaeo sea-level changes. This study details the development of a diatom-based sea-level transfer function for the Severn Estuary, southwest England, a macrotidal setting that experiences the second highest tidal range in the world. This setting presents difficulties in representing the full tidal range from mean sea level (MSL) to highest astronomical tide (HAT). However, two separate transects were merged successfully and a statistically significant relationship between contemporary diatom assemblages and altitude (m O.D.) was established. A diatom-based transfer function for palaeoaltitude was developed using weighted averaging (WA), tolerance downweighted weighted averaging (WA-Tol) and weighted averaging partial least squares (WA-PLS). WA-Tol produced the lowest prediction errors for altitude and the transfer function was applied to a fossil diatom data set from Gordano Valley, a site adjacent to the Severn Estuary. © 2007 SAGE Publications.
تدمد: 1477-0911
0959-6836
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::067765f7548cb8cd44fbf6e2fbaf0d24
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683607078988
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........067765f7548cb8cd44fbf6e2fbaf0d24
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE