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Radiocarbon Dates of Elevated Shorelines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Part 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

H.D. Tjia ,
Shoji Fujii ,
Kunihiko Kigoshi ,
Arata Sugimura  and
Thomas Zakaria
H.D. Tjia
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Malaysian National University, Malaysia
Shoji Fujii
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Toyama University, Japan
Kunihiko Kigoshi
Affiliation:
Gakushuin University, Japan
Arata Sugimura
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan
Thomas Zakaria
Affiliation:
Lembaga Penjelidikan Masalah Air, Indonesia
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Abstract

Four new radiocarbon dates of elevated strandlines in tectonically active areas of eastern Indonesia and East Malaysia indicate average rates of uplift that range between 4.5 and 9 mm annually during the past 24,000 yr. These values are at least three times higher than former estimates from eastern Indonesia. Another radiocarbon date from the south arm of Sulawesi—also tectonically mobile—indicates a rate of uplift of 1.4–2.5 mm per year which corresponds with earlier determinations. This particular case, however, suggests that the sample was probably located close to a north-south axis about which southern Sulawesi was tilted during the Quaternary.

In the Langkawi islands, West Malaysia, one of the regionally ubiquitous shorelines at about 2 m above sea level was dated at 2590 ± 100 yr BP which corresponds with Fairbridge's (1961) Abrolhos Submergence.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 487 - 495
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