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Paleoenvironmental Records Influenced by Sea Level Variations During the Holocene in the Vitória Bay Region, Espírito Santo State, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2017

Alex da Silva de Freitas ,
Cintia Ferreira Barreto ,
Alex Cardoso Bastos  and
José Antônio Baptista Neto
Alex da Silva de Freitas*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Geociências, Departamento de Geologia, 24210-346, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Cintia Ferreira Barreto
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Geociências, Departamento de Geologia, 24210-346, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Alex Cardoso Bastos
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Centro de Ciências Humanas e Naturais, Departamento de Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, 29090-600, Espírito Santo, ES, Brazil
José Antônio Baptista Neto
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Geociências, Departamento de Geologia, 24210-346, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
*
*Corresponding author. Email: alexsilfre@gmail.com.
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Abstract

Vitória Bay is located in the south-central part of the State of Espírito Santo (SES). Multiproxy analyses were performed on samples from a 490-cm-long sediment core collected at the coordinates 40°18′23′′W and 20°14′48′′S. The objective of this study was to identify and integrate the multiproxy data to determine the environmental dynamics during the Holocene. The material was subsampled every 10 m and submitted to standard methodological processing. The sediment core was dated to two depths: the oldest age was between 9396 and 9520 cal yr BP at a 480-cm depth, and the youngest age was from 7423 to 7511 cal yr BP at a 304-cm depth. The integrated analysis revealed evidence of three major environmental changes in Vitória Bay. The first phase had a fluvial influence (depth of 490–480 cm; 9396–9520 cal yr BP). This was followed by a transitional period (depth of 480–290 cm; 7423–7511 cal yr BP) with a salt influence due to the Last Marine Transgression (LMT). Later, the environmental stability was similar to that of today (290 cm to the core top). This was a reflection of the Last Marine Regression (LMR) in the Holocene.

Keywords

continental palynomorphscarbonized particlesHolocenestable isotopesvegetation
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Research Article
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Radiocarbon , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , August 2017 , pp. 1087 - 1102
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