Quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstruction techniques in sea-level studies

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105 - 119
Authors:
Horton, B P; Edwards, R J
Abstract:
partial canonical correspondence analysis was used to elucidate the relationship between the microfossil assemblages of foraminifera and environmental data; it showed that the standardised water level index, a surrogate for altitude, is the single most important and statistically significant controlling variable for the foraminiferal and diatom data. This statistically significant relationship was used to develop foraminifera-based and diatom-based transfer functions using weighted averaging calibration and regression. The former transfer function was applied to a single sediment sequence from Holkham, north Norfolk, to illustrate their potential to produce high precision relative sea-level reconstructions
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BIAB

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