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Holocene Sea-Level Rise Recorded by a Radiocarbon-Dated Mussel in a Submerged Speleothem beneath the Mediterranean Sea
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AbstractFossil shells of the boring mussel Lithophaga lithophaga provide a means for dating changes in relative sea level. These bivalves, being among the first colonizers of bare calcareous substrates, can mark the earliest stages of marine submergence of caves. Here we report data concerning the deepest submerged speleothem presently sampled in a temperate area, at 48 m below present sea level off the west coast of Italy (Mediterranean Sea). A fossil mussel shell beneath encrusting layers from later marine colonists gave an AMS age of 9580 ± 35 14C yr B.P. (10,253 ± 72 cal yr B.P.).
Title: Holocene Sea-Level Rise Recorded by a Radiocarbon-Dated Mussel in a Submerged Speleothem beneath the Mediterranean Sea
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AbstractFossil shells of the boring mussel Lithophaga lithophaga provide a means for dating changes in relative sea level.
These bivalves, being among the first colonizers of bare calcareous substrates, can mark the earliest stages of marine submergence of caves.
Here we report data concerning the deepest submerged speleothem presently sampled in a temperate area, at 48 m below present sea level off the west coast of Italy (Mediterranean Sea).
A fossil mussel shell beneath encrusting layers from later marine colonists gave an AMS age of 9580 ± 35 14C yr B.
P.
(10,253 ± 72 cal yr B.
P.
).
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