A review of last interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Atlantic and southwestern Caribbean, from Brazil to Honduras

Rubio-Sandoval, Karla; Rovere, Alessio; Cerrone, Ciro; Stocchi, Paolo; Lorscheid, Thomas; Felis, Thomas; Petersen, Ann-Kathrin; Ryan, Deirdre D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4819-2021

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Data description paper

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25 Oct 2021

Data description paper |

| 25 Oct 2021

A review of last interglacial sea-level proxies in the western Atlantic and southwestern Caribbean, from Brazil to Honduras

Karla Rubio-Sandoval, Alessio Rovere, Ciro Cerrone, Paolo Stocchi, Thomas Lorscheid, Thomas Felis, Ann-Kathrin Petersen, and Deirdre D. Ryan

Data sets

Last Interglacial sea-level proxies in the Western Atlantic and Southwestern Caribbean, from Brazil to Honduras K. Rubio-Sandoval, A. Rovere, C. Cerrone, P. Stocchi, T. Lorscheid, T. Felis, A. K. Petersen, and D. D. Ryan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5516444

Short summary

The Last Interglacial (LIG) is a warm period characterized by a higher-than-present sea level. For this reason, scientists use it as an analog for future climatic conditions. In this paper, we use the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines database to standardize LIG sea-level data along the coasts of the western Atlantic and mainland Caribbean, identifying 55 unique sea-level indicators.