Holocene submarine terraces on the western continental shelf of India; Implications for sea-level changes

Episodic, rapid sea-level rises on the central Mediterranean shelves after the Last Glacial Maximum: A review

“…100 and/or 60 m water depth, correlatable to phases just preceding MWPs 1A and 1B, were documented in Florida and Gulf of Mexico (Gardner et al, 2007), on the Indian shelf (Wagle et al, 1994), the Great Barrier Reef and the South Island, New Zealand (Carter et al, 1986), the Red Sea (Bailey et al, 2007), the Japan Sea (Korotkii, 1985), and the South Africa shelf (Salzmann et al, 2013;Green et al, 2014).…”

The occurrence, acoustic characteristics, and significance of submerged reefs on the continental shelf edge and upper slope, northern South China Sea

“…Previous studies have shown that there are also submerged reefs in many tropical island surroundings and continental shelves, such as the Caribbean Sea (Macintyre,1972;Lighty et al, 1978;Fairbanks, 1989;Hubbard et al, 1990;Blanchon et al, 2002;Jarrett et al, 2005), the Seychelles Islands (Stoddart, 1971), Madagascar (Pichon, 1977;Guilcher, 1988), the Bahamas Islands (Hine and Steinmetz, 1984), the edge of the western Indian continental shelf (Wagle et al, 1994;Colonna et al, 1996;Vora et al, 1996;Dullo et al, 1998;Rao et al, 2003) in the Indian Ocean, Papua New Guinea (Guilcher, 1988;Galewsky et al, 1996), the Fiji Islands (Guilcher, 1988), the Hawaiian Islands (Veeh, 1966;Ku et al, 1974;Szabo et al, 1994;Muhs and Szabo, 1994;Muhs, 2002;Webster et al, 2004Webster et al, , 2010Hearty et al, 2007), the outer edge of the Florida continental shelf (Lighty, 1977), and the Gulf of Carpentaria (Harris et al, 2004) and the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) (Veeh and Veevers, 1970;Harris and Davies, 1989) in Australia in the Pacific Ocean. These submerged reefs in the continental shelves, such as the 1300 km-long submerged reefs distributed on the outer edge of the western Indian continental shelf (Vora et al, 1996), were mainly formed during the last glacial period, whereas the submerged reefs around oceanic volcanic islands, such as the Hawaiian Island of Lanai (Webster et al, 2010), have longer formation histories Compared with modern coral reefs, submerged coral reefs not only reflect the shelf...…”

Successive reef depositional events along the Marquesas foreslopes (French Polynesia) since 26 ka

“…Drowned reefs were dated in Barbados (Fairbanks, 1989) and Hawai'i (Webster et al, 2004(Webster et al, , 2006. But in many areas, submerged reefs have only been located and observed but not dated as in the Pacific Ocean (Rougerie et al, 1992;Beaman et al, 2008), the Indian Ocean (Wagle et al, 1994;Vora et al, 1996) and the Caribbean Sea (Adey et al, 1977;Macintyre et al, 1991). Many of these reefs were interpreted to be the consequence of abrupt changes in sea-level during the last deglacial sea-level rise, reported as brief periods of accelerated ice cap melting that would have been accompanied by rapid jumps in sea-level.…”