Registro de los cambios del nivel del mar durante el cuaternario en las Islas Canarias Occidentales (Tenerife y La Palma)

C. Zazo; J. L. Goy; C. Hillaire-Marcel; J. A. González Delgado; V. Soler; B. Ghaleb; C. J. Dabrio

doi:10.3989/egeol.03591-490

Registro de los cambios del nivel del mar durante el cuaternario en las Islas Canarias Occidentales (Tenerife y La Palma)

Authors

C. Zazo Departamento de Geología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC).
J. L. Goy Geología. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Salamanca.
C. Hillaire-Marcel Université du Québkc A Montréal. GEOTOP-UQAM. Montrkal. Canadá
J. A. González Delgado Geología. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Salamanca.
V. Soler Estación Volcanológica de Canarias (CSIC).
B. Ghaleb Université du Québkc A Montréal. GEOTOP-UQAM. Montrkal.
C. J. Dabrio Departamento de Estratigrafía, Facultad de Geología. UCM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.03591-490

Keywords:

Last Interglacial, Present Interglacial, Highstand, Senegalese Fauna, Strombus bubonius

Abstract

Deposits and erosional marine features representing Quaternary interglaciars interstadials have been analyzed based on geological mapping, sedimentological and paleontological studies. Isotopic measurements and aminoacid racemization dating have been used for chronological purpose. The most complete marine sequence consists of five marine terraces at elevation between O m and 18 m above mean sea leve1 (asl) in Tenerife, where deposits of the Last Interglacial (01s 5e) include Strombus bubonius and «Senegalese» fauna. For La Palma only preliminary results are presented, but two clear marine levels can be distinguished in the Northeast coast at elevation between O m and 4 m asl; the most recent is Holocene, and the oldest, probably, developed during the Last Interglacial. The rate of vertical movements for the last -135,000 years has been calculated for both Islands, the values show a gently subsiding trend in Tenerife and a gently uplifting trend in La Palma.

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2003-08-30

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Zazo, C., Goy, J. L., Hillaire-Marcel, C., González Delgado, J. A., Soler, V., Ghaleb, B., & Dabrio, C. J. (2003). Registro de los cambios del nivel del mar durante el cuaternario en las Islas Canarias Occidentales (Tenerife y La Palma). Estudios Geológicos, 59(1-4), 133–144. https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.03591-490

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Vol. 59 No. 1-4 (2003)

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