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Due to a pretty unique conicidence, today I have to announce two new papers published, where I am co-author. Both are sea-level related, and both acknowledge @PALSEAgroup (thread 1/n)
The first is in @EGU_CP, and is the work of Maren Bender, who just defended her PhD in our group. Thanks to funding by @dfg_public @SPP_SeaLevel, we surveyed Holocene coral microatolls in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia (2/n) https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/16/1187/2020/
In my opinion, the most interesting aspect of this work is that it gives a hard constraint to the Holocene highstand in the area, which is likely below 1m. It also poses some questions on the subsidence at populated tropical islands, something to work on as we move forward (3/n)
The cool thing is that (thanks to @AdriaticRider77) we provide a repository with lots of GIA models for the entire SE Asia region, and some simple scripts to plot GIA at a selected location (link in the paper) (4/n)
Second paper brings us back 1 to 5 million years, in South Africa. This is the brainchild of @heartypj and presents, in my opinion, the most spectacular and precise sea level indicators published to date (5/n). https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019PA003835
Even if we still have issues with tectonic uplift over such long time scales, the evidence is pretty clear and points to Pliocene sea levels much higher than present, in the 20+ meters range (6/n)
The fieldwork in South Africa was done in 2012. Back then I was a fresh postdoc with @moraymo and in one month in South Africa with Paul, Mo, @mick0leary, @JustinHGillis and wonderful local collaborators in the field I learned so much about lots of things (7/n).
A few institutional tags here: @INQUA_ECR @INQUA @PAGES_IPO @marum_de @UniBremen @LamontEarth (8/end)
