Resumen de Cambios de nivel del mar en el litoral Cantábrico Oriental: ¿qué sabemos a partir del registro sedimentario estuarino?
Alejandro Cearreta Bilbao, Eduardo Leorri, Gonzalo Solar, Manuel Monge Ganuzas, Eneko Iriarte Avilés
The foraminiferal assemblages recorded in the sedimentary successions of the Cantabrian estuaries have been palaeoenvironmentally interpreted allowing definition of the sedimentary infill as a depositional sequence within a fourth-order eustatic cycle (Holocene). These sedimentary sequences comprise a wide range of foraminiferal assemblage zones (FAZs) organized into three systems tracts: low sea-level conditions during Lateglacial (LST), a marine transgression (TST, 8500-3000 cal BP), and a stabilized high sea-level (HST, 3000 cal BP-20th century). Furthermore, high resolution analysis of recent marsh sequences allowed the development of a transfer function based on benthic foraminifera that produced an estimation of sea levelrise of 1,4 mm/yr for the period 1810-1997 (0,70 mm/yr during 1810-1930 and 3,30 mm/yr for 1930-1997).
