Reply to Castro et al. 2018 on “Holocene paleo-sea level changes along the coast of Rio de Janeiro, southern Brazil”.

Abstract

Discussions are useful to the advance of science, and we appreciate the opportunity to discuss the paper by Castro et al. (2014) for the second time. Here we maintain the interpretations presented in our discussion paper (Angulo et al. 2016). In the discussion paper we emphasized that the vertical position of a paleo-sea level indicator is not the position of the paleo-sea level. We pointed out that: (1) to reconstruct paleo-sea levels it is crucial to determine the vertical distance between the indicators to their present homologous one; (2) margin of errors can only be established if considering the indicator's intrinsic characteristics and (3) the interpretation of a sea level 3.0 to 4.5 m below the present one at 11.9 to-11.1 ka BP is in strong contradiction with worldwide established data and would require a detailed discussion. We consider that Castro et al. (2018) do not properly address or answer the comments we made in the discussion paper. More work and discussions are necessary to elucidate several questions that still remain about the sea level behavior in the Holocene.

Records of sea-level highstand over the Meghalayan age/late Holocene from uranium-series ages of beachrock in Weizhou Island, northern South China Sea

“…To reconstruct the past sea-level, the vertical distance between the beachrock and the present homologous one must be considered. Thus, the past relative sea-level can be inferred even without the elevation of the present mean sea-level or other data (Angulo et al, 2018). However, previous studies have shown that beachrocks can be formed at several different altitudes in the coastal zone (Mauz et al, 2015).…”

Brief comments on the 2020 Impact Factor of the AABC released by Journal Citation Reports

“…In the 2020 JCR, 15 of these 17 articles reappear and their citations were therefore considered for the AABC 2020 IF. I have examined the two remaining articles, both published in the Earth Sciences section (Angulo et al 2018, Castro et al 2018). These papers discuss (and expand!)…”