
Inception of a Global Atlas of Sea Levels since the Last Glacial Maximum
Eds: Khan N, Engelhart S, Rovere A & Horton B
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019This Special Issue is primarily a result of HOLSEA, an INQUA project within PAGES-INQUA PALSEA working group. The issue provides a standardized global synthesis of regional RSL data that resulted from the first ‘Geographic variability of HOLocene relative SEA level (HOLSEA)’ meetings in Mt Hood, Oregon (2016) and St Lucia, South Africa (2017). It provides RSL data from ten geographical regions including new databases from Atlantic Europe and the Russian Arctic and revised/expanded databases from Atlantic Canada, the British Isles, the Netherlands, the western Mediterranean, the Adriatic, Israel, Peninsular Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. In total, the database derived from this special issue includes 5634 (5290 validated) index (n = 3202) and limiting points (n = 2088) that span from ∼20,000 years ago to present. This special issue marks the inception of a unified, spatially-comprehensive post-LGM global RSL database.
Available articles
> Inception of a global atlas of sea levels since the Last Glacial Maximum
> Statistical modeling of rates and trends in Holocene relative sea level
Atlantic Canada
> Postglacial relative sea-level histories along the eastern Canadian coastline
Russian Arctic
> A postglacial relative sea-level database for the Russian Arctic coast
British Isles
> Relative sea-level changes and crustal movements in Britain and Ireland since the Last Glacial Maximum
Northwest Europe
> Holocene sea-level database for the Rhine-Meuse Delta, The Netherlands: Implications for the pre-8.2 ka sea-level jump
Atlantic Europe
> Holocene sea-level database from the Atlantic coast of Europe
Mediterranean
> New relative sea-level insights into the isostatic history of the Western Mediterranean
> Tectonic influences on late Holocene relative sea levels from the central-eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia
> Can we detect centennial sea-level variations over the last three thousand years in Israeli archaeological records?
South Africa
> Sea-level change in southern Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum
Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives
> Holocene sea levels in Southeast Asia, Maldives, India and Sri Lanka: The SEAMIS database
> A below-the-present late Holocene relative sea level and the glacial isostatic adjustment during the Holocene in the Malay Peninsula