Citation:

PANGAEA.910120

Name: Elevation measurements and sea level interpretations for South Africa Pliocene sites
Published: 2019-12-18
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Coastal geology; Pliocene; sea level

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Keyword(s):

Coastal geology; Pliocene; sea level

Related to:

Hearty, Paul J; Rovere, Alessio; Sandstrom, Michael R; O'Leary, Michael J; Roberts, David; Raymo, Maureen E (2020): Pliocene-Pleistocene stratigraphy and sea-level estimates, Republic of South Africa (RSA). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003835

Coverage:

Median Latitude: -31.984657 * Median Longitude: 18.591509 * South-bound Latitude: -34.674800 * West-bound Longitude: 17.248636 * North-bound Latitude: -30.169875 * East-bound Longitude: 21.418318

Minimum Elevation: 11.5 m * Maximum Elevation: 41.1 m

Event(s):

ZBR * Latitude: -34.674800 * Longitude: 19.924503 * Elevation: 21.9 m * Location: South Africa

ZCH_Sec1 * Latitude: -31.514139 * Longitude: 18.051094 * Elevation: 15.0 m * Location: South Africa

ZCP_Sec1 * Latitude: -31.587436 * Longitude: 18.119392 * Elevation: 29.1 m * Location: South Africa

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Event label	Event		Rovere, Alessio
2	Geographic name/locality	Locality		Rovere, Alessio
3	Section	Sect		Rovere, Alessio
4	Geographic name/locality	Locality		Rovere, Alessio
5	Distance	Distance	km	Rovere, Alessio	Distance from previous site
6	Relative sea level indicator	RSL indicator		Rovere, Alessio	Type of indicator
7	Relative sea level indicator	RSL indicator		Rovere, Alessio
8	Error	Error		Rovere, Alessio	GPS horizontal error +/- 1sigma [m]
9	Elevation 2	Elev2	m a.s.l.	Rovere, Alessio	Ellipsoid elevation (ITRF-WGS84) [m]
10	Elevation 2	Elev2	m a.s.l.	Rovere, Alessio	Geoid Elevation [m]
11	Error	Error		Rovere, Alessio	GPS vertical error +/- 1sigma [m]
12	Error	Error		Rovere, Alessio	Geoid error [m]
13	Elevation, error	Elevation er	±	Rovere, Alessio
14	Mean higher high water	MHHW	m	Rovere, Alessio
15	Mean lower low water	MLLW	m	Rovere, Alessio
16	Wave height	Wave h	m	Rovere, Alessio	Storm Wave Swash Height (SWSH)
17	Depth, wave breaking	db	m	Rovere, Alessio
18	Platform outer elevation	POE	m	Rovere, Alessio
19	Height of upper distribution of organisms	Distribution h	m	Rovere, Alessio	Upper distribution of organisms at the modern shoreline
20	Modern shore platform inner margin elevation	Elevation platform	m	Rovere, Alessio
21	Water level	WL	m	Rovere, Alessio	Reference water level
22	Range	Range	m	Rovere, Alessio	Indicative range
23	Sea level, relative	Sea lev rel	m	Rovere, Alessio	Paleo Relative Sea Level
24	Sea level, relative standard deviation	Sea level std dev	±	Rovere, Alessio	Sigma Relative Sea Level
25	Uncertainty	Uncertainty	±	Rovere, Alessio	Plus-minus 1 Sigma RSL including additional uncertainty [m]
26	Uncertainty	Uncertainty	±	Rovere, Alessio	Plus-minus 2 Sigma RSL including additional uncertainty [m]

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Size:

296 data points

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