Abstract
Weathering of presently raised reef islands provides an analogue for the behaviour of Pleistocene reefs made emergent by glacio-eustatic falls in sea level. Micro-erosion meter measurements on Grand Cayman Island, West Indies, have shown that high mean weathering rates (>1.00 mm yr −1) are restricted to the marine environment. Large-scale landform development is unlikely to have been the product of the last period of exposure but rather the result of successive phases of weathering and reef growth, increasing the differential relief of the reef base throughout the Pleistocene.
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