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      Evidence for a Holocene High Sea-Level Stand, Vanua Levu, Fiji

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          Two distinct elevations of emerged notches can be recognized on the southeastern coast of Vanua Levu: the higher notch is +2.22 to +3.30 m above low-tide level and the lower +1.52 to +1.65 m above low-tide level. Many emerged Holocene corals encrust higher notch floors and benches or occur as microatolls and from these radiocarbon ages ranging from 6000 to 3400 yr B.P. were obtained. The higher notches are significantly higher than present high-tide level, even allowing for relative tectonic uplift. This is supported by elevations of emerged microatolls and their 14C ages. Thus, mean sea level of the mid-Holocene was higher than that at present.

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          Late Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level change in the Australian region and mantle rheology

          Masao Nakada, Kurt Lambeck (1989)
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            Geophysical evidence for post-Miocene rotation of the island of Viti Levu, Fiji, and its relationship to the tectonic development of the North Fiji Basin

            Alexander Malahoff, Ronald N. Richmond, David Keeling … (1982)
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              Lithospheric Thickness, Antarctic Deglaciation History, and Ocean Basin Discretization Effects in a Global Model Of Postglacial Sea Level Change: a Summary of Some Sources of Nonuniqueness

              W. R. PELTIER (1988)
              The global model of postglacial relative sea level variations that has been developed over the past decade is employed to investigate the constraints that it may be invoked to place on the timing of the deglaciation of West Antarctica. The analyses presented here confirm the suggestion of P. Wu and W. R. Peltier (1983,Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society74 , 377–450) that the model of this event employed in J. A. Clark and C. S. Lingle (1979Quaternary Research11 , 279–298) may be simply modified to rectify the misfits between theory and observation that are otherwise obtained at Southern Hemisphere sites. A large number of Southern Hemisphere relative sea level data are shown to require that the retreat of Antarctic ice substantially lagged the retreat of Northern Hemisphere ice if the deglaciation of Antarctica was abrupt. The time of onset of Antarctic deglaciation is thereby shown to coincide with the time of most rapid Northern Hemisphere deglaciation. Sensitivity tests are performed which demonstrate that this result is relatively insensitive to the discretization employed to represent the ocean basins; the only exception to this general rule obtains at some coastal sites at which a trade-off is revealed between the delay of West Antarctic melting and the thickness of the lithosphere required to reconcile the observed local variations of relative sea level. At such sites, which are all in the far field of the ice sheets, some attention must be paid to the accuracy of the local finite element representation of the oceans and to the details of the Antarctic deglaciation history.
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                Journal ID (publisher-id): applab
                Title: Quaternary Research
                Abbreviated Title: Quat. res.
                Publisher: Elsevier BV
                ISSN (Print): 0033-5894
                ISSN (Electronic): 1096-0287
                Publication date Created: May 1990
                Publication date (Electronic): January 20 2017
                Publication date (Print): May 1990
                Volume: 33
                Issue: 03
                Pages: 352-359
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                DOI: 10.1016/0033-5894(90)90061-O
                SO-VID: 110d3e8c-98dd-41ba-9bae-371d095a9870
                Copyright © © 1990
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