Fossil Coral Reefs Show Late Pleistocene Sea Level Rose in Bursts

[Oxytropidoceras]

Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming

Reefs near Texas endured punctuated bursts of sea-level rise before

drowning, Jade Boyd, Rice university, October 19, 2017

http://news.rice.edu/2017/10/19/fossil-coral-reefs-show-sea-level-rose-in-bursts-during-last-warming-2/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171019100954.htm

 

Pankaj Khanna, André W. Droxler, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, John W. Tunnell

Jr, Thomas C. Shirley. Coralgal reef morphology records punctuated

sea-level rise during the last deglaciation. Nature Communications,

2017; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00966-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00966-x

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[DPS Ammonite]

Article in Nature has interesting map that shows locations of former coral reefs on edge of continental shelf off the Texas coast. One live reef still exists. Reefs were populated with coral now found in Carribian. A takeaway... coral reefs might be able to exist again is suitable substrate existed. The ocean now is probably at least as warm as it was at the height of the last ice age when multiple reefs existed. Sediment from rivers might be preventing the formation of new shallower reefs.