Using the Stratigraphic Record Cores from the sediments of deltas examined for peat, mud, and soils Transgressive sequences Determine the paleoenvironment.

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Using the Stratigraphic Record Cores from the sediments of deltas examined for peat, mud, and soils Transgressive sequences Determine the paleoenvironment Peat formation Depositional processes Carbon dating Elevations & Surveying

Where to sample Best Holocene record in large prograding deltas Need microtidal settings for high resolution Tectonically stable through the Holocene Mississippi delta and Rhine-Meuse delta

Locations Yong-Xiang, 2011Hijma, 2010

Rhine-Meuse Delta Preservation of sediments m depth (bsl) Average age 8450 ± 44 yr BP Early 8385 ± 16 yr Late 8522 ± 37 yr Top of peat layer Change in elevation 4.06 ± 0.5 m in record 2.11 ± 0.89 m for sea level rise two events Change in age 195 ± 68 yr ~3 m ± 1.25 m sea level equivalent, 70 % of sea level rise observed 100 years before Mississippi?

Mississippi Delta Intertidal range (current average 0.47 m) Agglutenated taxa, followed by calcareous forams Short pulse of near instantaneous sea level rise 8.18 – 8.31 ka Mean elevation difference 0.33 ± 0.23 m Deeper stratigraphy, older range 8.54 – 8.38 ka Assumed fingerprint of – 0.22 m of sea level rise 0r sea level equivalent Smaller than Rhine-Meuse study

References Hijma, M.P., 2010, Timing and Magnitude of the Sea-level Jump Precluding the 8200 yr Event, Geology 2010;38; Yong-Xiang, Li et al, 2011, Synchronizing a Sea-level Jump, Final Lake Agassiz Drainage, and Abrupt Cooling 8200 years ago, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2012)