ABSTRACT The extent to which scleractinian coral inhabited southern Australia during the warm intervals of the Quaternary is poorly understood because identifiable corals from interglacial sedimentary records are scarce. Here we document the presence of a sub-tropical coral, Goniopora lobata, recovered together with warm water mollusc species from a raised cobble and boulder beach conglomerate at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, dated by uranium-series and amino acid racemisation methods respectively to the last interglacial (MIS 5e). The presence of this assemblage preserved within the Glanville Formation at Kingscote suggests a 2–3° C higher than present last interglacial coastal water temperature for northern Kangaroo Island. The height of the last interglacial shoreline deposit was measured by theodolite, and points to a mean last interglacial sea level 3.1 ± 0.4 m higher than present.

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澳大利亚南部袋鼠岛金斯科特最后一次间冰期隆起海滩的氨基酸外消旋化和铀系列测年

摘要 由于从间冰期沉积记录中可识别的珊瑚稀少，人们对第四纪温暖间隔期间石珊瑚在澳大利亚南部的栖息程度知之甚少。在这里，我们记录了亚热带珊瑚 Goniopora lobata 的存在，它与温水软体动物物种一起从袋鼠岛金斯科特的鹅卵石和巨石海滩砾岩中回收，分别通过铀系列和氨基酸外消旋化方法确定了年代间冰期（MIS 5e）。保存在 Kingscote 的 Glanville 组中的这种组合的存在表明袋鼠岛北部的最后一次间冰期沿海水温比目前高 2-3°C。最后一次间冰期海岸线沉积物的高度由经纬仪测量，