Holocene sea level changes at the nile delta coastal zone of Egypt |
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Authors: | Frihy Omran E |
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Institution: | (1) Coastal Research Institute, 15 El Pharaana Street, 21514 Alexandria, Egypt |
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Abstract: | Carbon dating data of changes in seal level during the Holocene at the Nile delta coast provide eustatic depth-time curve
of the region. The curve reveals that sea level was approximately 41 meters below the present level around 8,500 years ago.
Trend analysis indicates that with melting of glaciers there was a rapid rise in sea level of about 3 mm/yr. The constructed
data points are found to be comparable with other curves in the Mediterranean and wold-wide regions. The general changes of
the data points are fairly correlated with the ancient shoreline indicators of morphological features (shelf terraces and
slopes, old dunes, sand accretion ridges) and sediments at continental shelf and its contiguous coastal zone that belong to
Holocene transgression. |
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