Holocene sea-level rise recorded by a radiocarbon-dated mussel in a submerged speleothem beneath the Mediterranean Sea
Fossil shells of the boring mussel Lithophaga lithophaga provide a means for dating changes in relative sea level. Here are reported data concerning the deepest submerged speleothem presently sampled in a temperate area, at 48 m below present sea
This paper presents new paleoenvironmental data from Red Spider Cave. After a brief introduction to the cave and its setting, the importance of speleothem ages is discussed. Relationships between the present vegetation near the cave and pollen
in recent speleothems and soils then are investigated to determine if speleothem pollen spectra provide reliable information on vegetation. Finally, the palynological and geomorphic data are combined to produce a late Quaternary environmental history