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JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 214-224Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2009.08.010
Keywords
Sea-level changes; Neotectonics; Southern Caribbean; Holocene; Mollusks; Foraminifera; Ostracoda
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- Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology and Universidad EAFIT
- JSPS
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The detailed stratigraphic survey and paleontological study (mollusks, corals, foraminifera and ostracods) of four low-level, similar to 3 m, marine terrace sections: Punta Canoas, Manzanillo del Mar, Playa de Oro, and Tierra Bomba Island, from the Cartagena region, southern Caribbean, supplemented with 22 radiocarbon dates, reveals that the northern terraces were deposited as parasequences in a clastic depositional system compared to the Tierra Bomba Island succession that was deposited in a carbonate depositional system between similar to 3600 and similar to 1700 cal yrs BP. Drier conditions and the southern location of the ITCZ at about 3 ka triggered stronger easterly Trades and more dynamic southwestward sediment drift fed by the Magdalena River mouth, thus promoting the formation of sand spits that ultimately isolated the Cienaga de Tesca coastal lagoon from the Caribbean Sea. Our estimates support the hypothesis that the present position of the terraces is the product of neotectonism rather than a higher 3 ka, sea-level. Upheaval of the terraces varies between similar to 3.8 mmyr(-1) at Punta Canoas and similar to 2.2 mmyr(-1) at Tierra Bomba to similar to 1.5 mmyr(-1) at Manzanillo del Mar and Playa de Oro terraces. Our study corroborates previous contentions on the role of mud diapirism and the dynamics of the Dique Fault as late Holocene upheaval mechanisms. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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