The Timing of the Post-Glacial Marine Invasion of Kau Bay, Halmahara, Indonesia
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1989-01-01Keywords
HalmaharaKau Bay
changes of level
Indonesia
Holocene
Far East
stratigraphy
glaciation
sediments
AsiaCenozoicQuaternarymethodsgeochronologyC 14carbondatesisotopesradioactive isotopesabsolute age
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Barmawidjaja, D. M., De Jong, A. F. M., van der Borg, K., Van Der Kaars, W. A., van der Linden, W. J. M., & Zachariasse, W. J. (1989). The timing of the postglacial marine invasion of Kau Bay, Halmahera, Indonesia. Radiocarbon, 31(3), 948-956.Journal
RadiocarbonDescription
From the 13th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June 20-25, 1988.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
Kau Bay, Halmahera, Indonesia is a small marine basin that is separated from the adjacent SW Pacific Ocean by a shallow sill, 40m deep. Radiocarbon dating on piston cores in combination with a study on microfossils demonstrate that Kau Bay was a freshwater lake in Weichselian times. At 10,000 BP, the Bay became reconnected with the open ocean. If sill depth did not change in the intervening years, sea level at 10,000 BP stood 40m below the present level.Type
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