Abstract
Abstract St. Vincent Island, located on the northwest Gulf of Mexico coast of Florida, U.S.A., preserves a well-developed beach ridge plain that is generally believed to have begun to form during the mid-Holocene period. This study evaluates the potential of optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) to appraise the proposed evolution and progradation of this strand-plain. Optical stimulated luminescence was used to obtain the ages of the quartz samples extracted from seven vibracores at two depth intervals. The single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) OSL ages increase from the shores on the Gulf of Mexico to St. Vincent Sound. The younger ridge set yielded ages of 370 ± 49 to 1890 ± 292 years (AD 2004 datum) conferring an interridge accretion time range of 78 to 148 years assuming uniform sediment accumulation. The oldest ridge set yielded ages of 2733 ± 404 to 2859 ± 340 years, consistent with the estimated age based on archaeological materials of 3000–4000 years ago. For the southwestern beach ridge set, the...
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