Last interglacial (MIS 5e) sea-level proxies in southeastern South America

Gowan, Evan J.; Rovere, Alessio; Ryan, Deirdre D.; Richiano, Sebastian; Montes, Alejandro; Pappalardo, Marta; Aguirre, Marina L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-171-2021

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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 171–197, 2021

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Special issue: WALIS – the World Atlas of Last Interglacial...

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 171–197, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-171-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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Review article 28 Jan 2021

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Last interglacial (MIS 5e) sea-level proxies in southeastern South America

Evan J. Gowan et al.

Data sets

Last interglacial (MIS 5e) sea-level proxies in southeastern South America E. J. Gowan, A. Rovere, D. D. Ryan, S. Richiano, A. Montes, M. Pappalardo, and M. L. Aguirre https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3991596

Descriptions of database fields for the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS) (Version 1,0) A. Rovere, D. Ryan, C. Murray-Wallace, A. Simms, M. Vacchi, A. Dutton, T. Lorscheid, P. Chutcharavan, D. Brill, M. Bartz, N. Jankowski, D. Mueller, K. Cohen, and E. Gowan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3961544

Short summary

During the last interglacial (130 to 115 ka), global sea level was higher than present. The World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS) has been created to document this. In this paper, we have compiled data for southeastern South America. There are landforms that indicate that sea level was 5 to 25 m higher than present during this time period. However, the quality of these data is hampered by limitations on elevation measurements, chronology, and geological descriptions.