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Dating of Sea-Level Palaeo-Markers

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Consider the nature and probable age range of the palaeo-markers of sea-level in Cape Verde. It is reasonable to assume that most of the marine sediments intercalated in the volcanostratigraphic sequence of the islands will have an age between the Oligocene/Miocene and the Quaternary. Furthermore, the majority of these sediments will probably lie in the even more restricted interval represented by the Late Miocene and the Plio-Pleistocene, since seven of the ten Cape Verdean islands are probably younger than 10–12 Ma. Hence, the in-sequence sediments (through their fossils) are potentially datable with SIS and lie within the 1–40 Ma interval.

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Ramalho, R. (2011). Dating of Sea-Level Palaeo-Markers. In: Building the Cape Verde Islands. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19103-9_6

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