Reply to “Mid-Holocene higher sea level indicators from the south China coast: a regional perspective” by Baker et al.

Comment on “Mid-Holocene higher sea leve

Comment on “Mid-Holocene higher sea level indicators from the south China coast” by W.W.-S. Yim and G. Huang [Mar. Geol. 182 (2002) 225–230]: a regional perspective

✍ R.G.V. Baker; A.M. Davis; J.C. Aitchison; P.G. Flood; Brian S. Morton; R.J. Hawo 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 618 KB

The interpretation by Yim and Huang (2002) of our discovery of a relic encrustation of the oyster (Saccostrea cucullata) 1.9 m above the comparative present intertidal zone at Big Wave Bay on Hong Kong Island needs clarification. It is unlikely that a 4^5-m-higher mid-Holocene sea level is a corolla