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Late Quaternary Environmental Reconstruction Of The Lacepede Shelf, Southern Australia, Núria Lahuerta Piñeiro

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

The study of relative sea-level changes and ultimately glacio-eustatic sea-level for the Late Quaternary, is commonly addressed by analysing the ocean-land interface from continental shelves, which represent submerged former coastal plains established during periods of low sea-level. In Late Quaternary time, only during the last interglacial MIS 5e highstand (128 – 116 ka) and during the present, Holocene interglacial, has sea level been near or above present sea-level. The Lacepede Shelf is a large (30,000 km²), wide (180 km) and shallow (up to 120 m) embayment, which has been partly or entirely subaerially exposed during the Late Quaternary. …