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Late Holocene Sea-Level Record in a Core from the Puget Lowland, Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Matti Eronen ,
Tuovi Kankainen  and
Matsuo Tsukada
Matti Eronen
Affiliation:
Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Box 111, SF-80101 Joensuu, Finland
Tuovi Kankainen
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Finland, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland
Matsuo Tsukada
Affiliation:
Department of Botany and Quaternary Research Center AK-60, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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Abstract

Diatoms and lithological facies of an 8.45-m core collected from Shine swamp (47°52′20″N lat, 122°41′45″W long; about 2 m above the mean tide level) in the northern Puget Lowland reveal a rise in relative sea level during the past 6000 yr. A layer of fresh-water peat at a depth of 6.6-6.3 m (ca. 7000-5000 yr B.P.) indicates a low stand of the sea in early and middle Holocene time. About 5000 yr ago the rise in relative sea level resulted in accumulation of subtidal or lower intertidal clayey gyttja and gyttja which contain mainly marine and brackish-water diatoms (80–95%). By about 3500 yr B.P., the basin had shoaled to upper intertidal levels, and peat began to accumulate again while the sea continued its relative rise. During the period of this continuous peat growth, several alterations in fresh-water and marine/brackish-water diatom assemblages took place, indicating slight differences in the contemporaneous sea-level rise and vertical peat growth.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , March 1987 , pp. 147 - 159
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University of Washington

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