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The Timing of the Postglacial Marine Invasion of Kau Bay, Halmahera, Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

D M Barmawidjaja
Affiliation:
Marine Geological Institute, Jalan Dr, Junjunan 236, PO Box 215 Bandung – 40174, Indonesia
A F M de Jong
Affiliation:
Robert J van de Graaff Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Klaas van der Borg
Affiliation:
Robert J van de Graaff Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, PO Box 80.000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
W A van der Kaars
Affiliation:
Hugo de Vries Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
W J M van der Linden
Affiliation:
Werkgroep Mariene Aardwetenschappen, Institute of Earth Sciences Budapestlaan 4, PO Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
W J Zachariasse
Affiliation:
Werkgroep Mariene Aardwetenschappen, Institute of Earth Sciences Budapestlaan 4, PO Box 80.021, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Kau Bay Halmahera, Indonesia is a small marine basin that is separated from the adjacent SW Pacific Ocean by a shallow sill, 40m deep. Radiocarbon dating on piston cores in combination with a study on microfossils demonstrate that Kau Bay was a freshwater lake in Weichselian times. At 10,000 BP, the Bay became reconnected with the open ocean. It sill depth did not change in the intervening years, sea level at 10,000 BP stood 40m below the present level.

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