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Science 12 May 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5468, pp. 1033 - 1035
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5468.1033
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Rapid Flooding of the Sunda Shelf: A Late-Glacial Sea-Level Record

Till Hanebuth, * Karl Stattegger, Pieter M. Grootes

The increase in sea level from the last glacial maximum has been derived from a siliciclastic system on the tectonically stable Sunda Shelf in Southeast Asia. The time from 21 to 14 thousand calendar years before the present has been poorly covered in other records. The record generally confirms sea-level reconstructions from coral reefs. The rise of sea level during meltwater pulse 1A was as much as 16 meters within 300 years (14.6 to 14.3 thousand years ago).

Institute of Geosciences, University of Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24 118 Kiel, Germany.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: th{at}gpi.uni-kiel.de

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