Abstract
The Holocene paleo-environmental history of the Gangkou River estuary, Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan
Highlights
Better understanding of the forcing factors driving coastal area geomorphological development, resulting in coastal progradation or coastline retreat, has become an important issue in the contemporary and projected sea-level rise context (Nicholls and Cazenave 2010; IPCC 2014; Carson et al 2016)
The base of profile HWA-1 is formed by a clast-supported diamicton, predominantly consisting of stones and boulders, with a silty to sandy matrix
In some parts of the outcrop wall, there are indications for channels cut into the coarse diamicton, which were subsequently filled with fine sediments
Summary
Better understanding of the forcing factors driving coastal area geomorphological development, resulting in coastal progradation or coastline retreat, has become an important issue in the contemporary and projected sea-level rise context (Nicholls and Cazenave 2010; IPCC 2014; Carson et al 2016). Chen et al (2018) calculated an expected sea level rise in the China Seas of 0.6 - 1.3 m in the 21st century This will cause coastline changes that will affect a broad portfolio of spheres, including, but not limited to: coastal hazard and risk assessment (e.g., Wainwright et al 2015), spatial planning Coastal environments develop under the combined effects of terrestrial and marine processes. Geomorphological processes in these areas are driven by multiple forcing factors like eustatic and/or relative sealevel rise and fall, sediment availability, tectonic uplift or subsidence, and climate change, to name but a few. From the broad portfolio of dating methods available today, radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating have proven suitable tools in the research area and for the targeted time period (Ho et al 2017)
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