Site:

Gneiss Point, Southern Scott Coast

This site appears in the following publications:

Hall, Brenda L and Denton, George H
New relative sea-level curves for the southern Scott Coast, Antarctica: evidence for Holocene deglaciation of the western Ross Sea
Journal of Quaternary Science, 1999
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199912)14:7<641::AID-JQS466>3.0.CO;2-B
Samples in
this publication

Hall, Brenda L and Baroni, Carlo and Denton, George H
Holocene relative sea-level history of the Southern Victoria Land Coast, Antarctica
Global and Planetary Change, 2004
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2003.09.004
Samples in
this publication

Relative sea level plot for this region:

The following samples are associated with this site:

ID Latitude Longitude Past sea level (m) What Constraint type 14C age
219 -77.4 163.7333 20.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 6580.0 ± 65.0
220 -77.4 163.7333 20.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 6575.0 ± 50.0
228 -77.4 163.7333 20.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 5645.0 ± 50.0
221 -77.4 163.7333 20.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 6430.0 ± 60.0
229 -77.4 163.7333 20.5 ± 1.0 Seal skin under rocks on beach surface. 2 5590.0 ± 50.0
222 -77.4 163.7333 20.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 6430.0 ± 55.0
223 -77.4 163.7333 20.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 6090.0 ± 60.0
227 -77.4 163.7333 19.0 ± 1.0 Seal skin buried in raised beach. 3 5712.0 ± 69.0
230 -77.4 163.7333 18.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 5590.0 ± 55.0
224 -77.4 163.7333 18.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 5980.0 ± 50.0
71 -77.333 163.667 18.5 ± 2.0 Shell fragments 1 6520.0 ± 55.0
225 -77.4 163.7333 18.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 5925.0 ± 60.0
226 -77.4 163.7333 18.5 ± 1.0 A. colbecki shell buried in raised beach. 3 5787.0 ± 68.0
72 -77.333 163.667 16.5 ± 2.0 Shell fragments 1 6430.0 ± 60.0

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