Quaternary sea levels of the Brazilian coast: recent progress

Abstract

Several raised marine levels have been recognized older than 123 000 yr BP and associated with older interglacials, but the most detailed chronology concerns a series of raised shoreline features formed during the past 7000 yr. Certain differences from one coastal sector to another are attributed to variations of the geoid surface, or to local tectonics, and a detailed model for the Holocene evolution of the central and southern Brazilian coast is presented. -from Editor