Shelf-edge deglacial reef establishment and subsequent partial demise: Response to distinct pulses of sea-level rise associated with environmental changes
B. Harper, A. Droxler, J. Webster, P. Montagna, Y. Yokoyama, M. Humblet, S. Jorry, L. Beaufort, K. Tachikawa, E. Bard, E. Pons‐Branchu
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Abstract
The partial melting of Earth’s bi-polar ice sheets since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has translated into a ~ 120 m amplitude stepwise sea-level rise punctuated by three major meltwater pulses that were tracked and recorded with some of the best accuracy by coral reefs. However, the initial meltwater pulse marking the end of the LGM, at 19 ka, is anchored in only two palaeo reefs (Barbados, Great Barrier Reef). Here, the authors present the analysis of a coralgal reef that thrived along the south-east Papua New Guinea Peninsula outer shelf during this initial pulse. In the cone of a piston core, a shallow Goniastrea retiformis coral colony was retrieved at 111 m below present sea-level and uranium/thorium dated to 19.4 ka BP. This colony had been buried beneath the debris of a proximal coralgal reef before its partial drowning at 14.5 ka BP. Seismic survey data suggest that the reef edifice was established directly on the eroded top of a lowstand shelf-edge delta, partially drowned and then back-stepped towards the south-east in response to three distinct deglacial sea-level pulses and stepwise increases of water column turbidity.
自末次盛冰期(LGM)以来,地球两极冰盖的部分融化已经转化为幅度约为120米的海平面逐步上升,其间有三个主要的融水脉冲,珊瑚礁以最高的精度跟踪和记录了这些脉冲。然而,标志着LGM结束的初始融水脉冲,在19ka,只锚定在两个古珊瑚礁(巴巴多斯,大堡礁)。在这里,作者们展示了一种珊瑚礁的分析,这种珊瑚礁在最初的脉冲中沿着巴布亚新几内亚半岛东南部的外大陆架茁壮成长。在一个活塞岩心的锥部,在现今海平面以下111 m处获得了一个浅层的Goniastrea retiformis珊瑚群,铀/钍的年代定值为19.4 ka BP。该群落在14.5 ka BP被部分淹没之前被埋在近端珊瑚礁的碎片下。地震调查数据表明,礁体直接建立在低地陆架边缘三角洲的侵蚀顶部,部分被淹没,然后向东南后退,这是对三次明显的冰川消融海平面脉冲和水柱浑浊度逐步增加的反应。